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)

Nominated members of the advisory board of the European DesertNet:

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Böhner (Geographer, University of Hamburg, Germany)
• Dr. Heike Culmsee (Botanist, University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Donald Gabriels (Soil scientist, University of Ghent, Belgium)
• Dr. Richard Escadafal (Remote Sensing, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) - UMR CESBIO, France)
• Prof. Dr. Stefano Grego (Soil scientist, University of Tuscia, Italy)
• Dr. Alexandre Ickowicz (Pastoralist, CIRAD, France)
• Pietro Laureano (Remote Sensing, Italy)
• Dr. Maud Loireau (Geographer, IRD ,France)
• Dr. María José Marqués (Ecophysiologist, Dept. Investigación en Desarrollo Rural. IMIDRA. Comunidad de Madrid, Spain)
• Dr. Christopher Martius (Ecology, University of Bonn, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Giovanni Quaranta (Chief of MEDES Observatory, University of Basilicata, Italy)
• Dr. José Rubio (Soil, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificasión –DIDE-CSIC, Spain)
• Dr. Maurizio Sciortino (ENEA, National Agency for New technologies, Energy and Environment, Italy)
• Dr. Pandi Zdruli (Project Manager, CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy)

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