DesertNet International - Advisory board

Should cover the different subfields
Identifies new and emerging topics
Support the steering committee on programmatic work and quality control
Works out concepts for research programs
Keeps in contact with research communities
Usually, steering committee and advisory board meet together (apart from organisational and technical issues)

Members of the Advisory Board (alphabetical order):

Prof. Dr. Marc Bied-Charreton (Honorary Chair of CSFD, France)
Prof. Dr. Mauro Centritto (National Research Council, Ins. of Agro-Environment & Forest Biology, Italy)
Prof. Dr. Héctor Francisco del Valle (Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT), CONICET, Argentina)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hill (University of Trier, Remote Sensing Department, Germany)
Dr. María José Marqués (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Dr. Norbert Jürgens (Chair Diversitas Germany, Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden,Hamburg, Germany)
Dr. Maud Loireau (Centre IRD-Montpellier, France)
Dr. Kamila Magzieva (FP7 National Coordinator, Kazakhstan)
Dr. Christopher Martius (Inter-American Institute or Global Change Research (IAI), São José dos Campos, Brazil)
Dr. Manojkumar Pardeshi (Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology, India)
Dr. José L. Rubio (Soil, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificasión –DIDE-CSIC, Spain)

This list is open and will, if thematically and structurally necessary, be supplemented by further members which will be nominated by the steering committee.