Advisory Board and Editors Natural Resource Management
Simon J D Cox
Simon's professional focus is informatics applied to earth and environmental sciences. Starting in geophysics and mineral exploration, he recognised patterns in information structures that are common across multiple applications or domains, and are thus amenable to standardized cross-domain solutions. In support of this goal, he has engaged in various international standardization efforts, primarily in geospatial and web communities. A consistent conceptual view has been adapted to successive technology frameworks, including XML, UML, JSON, RDF, OWL, and Linked Data. His current work is mainly aligning geospatial information standards with semantic web technologies and linked open data principles, with a particular focus on governance arrangements and vocabulary publication and management.
Dr Cox was awarded the 2006 Gardels Medal by OGC, and was selected to present the 2013 Leptoukh Lecture for AGU.
Curtis Daehler
Professor of Botany and graduate faculty in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Research interests include invasive species, plant-animal interactions, population biology, island biology, conservation and biogeography.
Saurav Das
Dr. Saurav Das is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where his research mostly focuses on benchmarking soil health measurement & management, soil microbes, soil carbon & nitrogen, plant-microbe interactions, and data science. He has extensive experience in conducting research on the interactions between plants and soil microbes and has made significant contributions to the understanding of how these interactions impact plant health, soil health, and carbon sequestration.
Dr. Das has published numerous papers in top scientific journals and has presented his work at conferences around the world. He is committed to advancing knowledge in the field of soil science and to applying this knowledge to improve agricultural practices and promote sustainable land use.
G Matt Davies
I am Assistant Professor of Soil and Plant Community Restoration in OSU's School of Environment and Natural Resources. My research focuses on developing methods for the restoration and management of ecosystem properties and functions including vegetation community composition, habitat structure, fire regimes and carbon and nutrient cycling. Current research sites include temperate, semi-arid and tropical ecosystems.
Lucía DeSoto
Lecturer in Botany at Complutense University of Madrid
Maria Luisa Fernandez-Marcos
Maria Luisa Fernandez-Marcos graduated in Chemical Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1976. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1985, specializing in Soil Science. Between 1979 and 1987 she was a secondary school teacher.
Since 1987 she is a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the area of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, where she has taught Soil Science, Environmental Pollution and related subjects. Her main research lines are: soil chemistry, soil fertility and management, biogeochemical cycles, soil and water pollution, environmental soil science, waste management and recycling, tropical soils, climate change mitigation and adaptation.
She is a member of the Spanish Society of Soil Science, Soil Science Society of America, International Union of Soil Sciences and Ibero-American Society of Environmental Physics and Chemistry.
Tessa B Francis
Tessa Francis is the Lead Ecosystem Ecologist at the Puget Sound Institute, and the Managing Director of the Ocean Modeling Forum. Tessa holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley; a B.S. in Wildlife Science from the University of Washington; and a Ph.D. in Zoology and Urban Ecology from the University of Washington.
Andrea Ghermandi
I am an Associate Professor and Head at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, and the director of the Natural Resources and Environmental Research Center at the University of Haifa in Israel. I am an alumnus of the Global Young Academy. I received a PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from the University of Venice (Italy) in 2008. An environmental engineer by training, my research spans over a range of fields including the valuation and mapping of ecosystem services and the passive crowdsourcing of social media data in environmental research. I have published >50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and contributed to high-profile international initiatives such as TEEB-The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, the UNEP/GEF Project for Ecosystem Services (ProEcoServ), and the Ecosystem Service Partnership.
Tilottama Ghosh
Dr. Tilottama Ghosh has ten years of experience with low light imaging data from the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data from 2013 onwards. Products generated include VIIRS Nightfire, VIIRS Boat Detection, VIIRS Nighttime Lights, and DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights. Experience working with low light imaging data has included processing historic lunar cycle composites, monthly and annual cloud-free global mosaics of nighttime lights composites, creating metadata documenting generated data products, fulfilling data requests related to the nighttime lights products and the DMSP archive, providing training in the use and implementation of nighttime lights software to scientists and researchers, documenting DMSP and VIIRS algorithms and accomplishments through manuals, conference proceedings, and journal submissions. She has conducted many significant socio-economic research and analysis using DMSP and VIIRS nighttime lights, and prepared publishable materials. Her research interests include- socio-economic estimations using nighttime lights, studying sustainable growth of cities, urbanization and population growth.
Paolo Giordani
Associate Professor of Botany in the Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa.
My current research interests focus on the study of lichen ecology and biology. Research topics include the effects on sensitive organisms of anthropogenic disturbances, e.g. air pollution, forest management, fires, pastures, and climate change. I was in charge of developing European standard protocols on lichen biomonitoring of air quality.
Andrew Gregory
Dr. Andrew Gregory is an Assistant Professor Wildlife Spatial Ecology at the University of North Texas, USA.
His research areas include; Corridor Ecology, Landscape Genetics/Genomics, Spatial Ecology, Human Dimensions of Forestry, and Rangeland Ecology.
Chenghong Gu
Dr Chenghong Gu currently is a Lecturer with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK. Previously, he was EPSRC Research Fellow with the University of Bath. He received the Master’s degree from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2007 and PhD degree from the University of Bath, U.K, in 2010, both in electrical engineering. His major research interest is in the multi-vector energy system, smart grid planning and operation, power economics and markets. Dr Gu’s research has been supported by UK funding agency (EPSRC), the industry (NPG, NGC, and WPD), and the UK government (DECC). He now is the Subject Editor IET Smart Grid.