Editorial Board

RICHARD BETTS

is Chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter and Head of Climate Impacts in the Met Office Hadley Centre. His research interests include climate modeling and its impact of climate change in ecosystems and the interactions with other impacts of climate change such as water resources. Richard was a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis), and IPCC 5th Assessment Report in Working Group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability)

ROBERT BINDSCHADLER

is Chief Scientist of NASA’s Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory and a Senior Fellow of the Goddard Space Flight Center (Retired). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a past President of the International Glaciological Society and is currently both a NASA Emeritus Scientist and a Senior Research Scientist at Morgan State University. He has led major multi-institutional and international research projects, most recently a major ice-sheet modeling study for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He maintains an active interest in glaciers and ice sheets and has led 18 Antarctic field expeditions to study dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. During his NASA career, he has developed numerous unique applications of remote sensing data for glaciological research including measuring ice velocity and elevation using both visible and radar imagery, monitoring melt of the ice sheet by microwave emissions, and detecting changes in ice-sheet volume by repeat space-borne radar altimetry. He has testified before Congress, briefed the U.S. Vice President, published over 150 scientific papers, including numerous review articles and is often quoted commenting on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world’s ice sheets and glaciers.

OTIS BROWN

is Former Dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, founding Co-Director of the Abess Center, and current Professor in the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Rosenstiel School. Dr. Brown’s specialties include radiative transfer in the ocean-atmosphere system for visible light; particulate scattering in sea water; satellite infrared observations of sea surface temperature in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans; kinematical studies of warm core rings based on infrared tracking; transient processes in western boundary currents; evolution of spring bloom on shelf/slope regions based on visible satellite data; participant in ONR Southern Ocean Studies and Kuroshio Extension Recirculation Programs, and the JGOFS Arabian Sea Expedition.

ARTEMIO CERDA

is Professor of Physical Geography, University of Valencia.

MARC DOUROJEANNI

is Emeritus professor and has been Dean of the Faculty of Forestry of the Universidad Nacional Agraria, La Molina (Lima, Peru). His research interest is focused in Amazon development and in Latin American biodiversity conservation and protected areas. He is author of 17 books, including Parques Nacionales del Perú (Madrid, 1978), Recursos Naturales de América Latina (Lima, 1980), Amazonia ¿Qué Hacer? (Lima, 1990), Biodiversidade: Hora Decisiva (Curitiba, 2001), Amazonia Peruana en 2021 (Lima, 2010), Amazonia Probable y Deseable (Lima, 2011) Loreto Sostenible al 2021 (Lima, 2013), and Arcas a Deriva (Rio de Janeiro, 2013).

LORA FLEMING

is Director of the European Centre of Environment and Human Health (www.ecehh.org), and Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School (Truro, Cornwall, UK). She is a board certified occupational and environmental health physician and epidemiologist with over two decades of experience and expertise in environment and occupational exposures and human health. As a physician and epidemiologist, Professor Fleming works in the interdisciplinary areas of the Oceans and Human Health, and of Healthy/Sustainable Workplaces.

KEVIN GASTON

is Inaugural Director of the Environment and Sustainability Institute and Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Exeter. An ecologist, his main research interests are in environmental management, ecosystem services, conservation biology and urban ecology. He is the author of over 450 papers in science peer reviewed publications, and 13 books. His work and contribution to biodiversity and conservation have been recognised throughout his career with awards and prizes including the Ecology Institute International Recognition of Professional Excellence Prize, a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, election to Academia Europaea and the Marsh Award for Ecology. He is on the editorial boards of PeerJ, F1000Research, Biological Conservation, American Naturalist, and Basic & Applied Ecology.

RICHARD HAZLETT

is an affiliated member of the Geology Department at Pomona College whose primary duties involve working with the Environmental Analysis program. Hazlett’s research interests include volcanology, igneous petrology, mineralogy, land use issues pertaining particularly to oil depletion, forestry, agriculture, and the role of selected natural resources in human conflict and history.

IGNACIO ITURBE

is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Professor Iturbe’s research interests include Ecohydrology, Hydrogeomorphology, Surface Hydrology, Hydrometeorology and International Trade of Virtual Water. He currently serves on the editorial board of Environmental Engineering Science and Ecohydrology.

WILLIAM BERRY LYONS

is Director of the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. His research interests include the biogeochemistry of Antarctic terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems; the interactions and rates of chemical weathering, erosion/sediment transport and carbon dynamics, especially in small, mountainous watersheds and polar regions; and the impact of urbanization, suburbanization and agricultural activities on water quality. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program. He is a U.S. representative on the Geosciences Standing Scientific Group of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, and currently the Chief Office of the Geosciences Standing Scientific Group. He is also a former Director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at OSU. He is an associate editor for Chemical Geology and Polar Science.

YADVINDER MALHI

is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests. His work has focused on understanding the functioning of forests and their interaction with agents of global and regional change, including global atmospheric change. This work encompasses a range of approaches including extensive fieldwork in tropical forests in some of the most remote regions of the planet, climate change science and satellite remote sensing. He is author of Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (Oxford University Press, 2004) and over 170 journal articles.

LUISA MOLINA

is President of the Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy and the Environment (MCE2) in La Jolla, California and principal research scientist at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Molina’s research interests include molecular spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, and atmospheric chemistry. She has been involved in particular with the chemistry of stratospheric ozone depletion and urban air pollution. She demonstrated experimentally a new reaction sequence, which explains how chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) caused the Antarctic ozone hole. Recently she initiated a multi-disciplinary project involving an integrated assessment of air pollution in megacities, aimed at improving the environmental decision making process through education and the better use of scientific, technical, and socio-economic understanding.

WILL STEFFEN

is Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change, and is a global change researcher at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and is currently a guest researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change.

ROBERT A. WASHINGTON-ALLEN

is an Associate Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Agriculture, Veterinary, & Rangeland Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) and Adjunct Assoc. Prof in the Dept. of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). His BS is in Zoology (Ethology) from The Ohio State University under the tutelage of the late Dr. Walter Rothenbuhler, the “Father of Behavioral Genetics”. He received his MS and Ph.D. at Utah State University in Dryland Ecology and later went on to conduct remote sensing-based research on the sustainability of Dryland ecosystems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Virginia, and Texas A&M University, before departing for UTK.  He is a contributing member of the Society for Range Management, the American Society for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, the International Assoc. for Landscape Ecology, and the Ecological Society of America. He is serving on the editorial boards of Plant Ecology, Ecosphere, and Remote Sensing. He and his students have pioneered the repurposing of industrial remote sensing instruments including terrestrial laser scanners (TLS), the GRACE satellite, and ground penetrating radar (GPR) for applications in ecology and agriculture including the detection and measurement of belowground biomass. He is the current Director of NevadaView, an affiliate of AmericaView, and promotes the use of remote sensing data for research, education, outreach, and workforce development. He has nearly 200 publications including 60 peer-reviewed publications and technical reports, 30 invited talks, and 8 book chapters.