Advisory Board and Editors Natural Resource Management
Giorgio Vacchiano
MA and PhD in forestry at University of Turin. Assistant professor in forest management and planning at University of Milan
Scott Veirs
Oceanographer and bioacoustician facilitating the recovery of endangered regional icons of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.), particularly southern resident killer whales and Pacific salmon. I helped design and was the first major in the Earth Systems program at Stanford University, then earned a M.S. and PhD in Oceanography at the University of Washington. In 2003 I founded Beam Reach and taught ~50 undergraduates and recent graduates to ask and answer their own marine field science questions during 10-week field courses from 2005-2012. During the same period I helped create the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network -- orcasound.net -- which I continue to administer.
Qiang Wang
Qiang Wang received a Ph.D in Environmental Science from the Chinese Academy of Science in 2009, was an Associate Professor (2010) at the Qingdao Institute Of Bioenergy & Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, and a Professor (2011-16) at Xinjiang Ecology And Geography Institute, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, and then moved to China University of Petroleum (2016-2022). His research focuses on energy-environment-health issues through multidisciplinary research methods
Through clever use of time series statistical models (e.g., joint regression models, variable intercept models, variable coefficient models), high-precision combined forecasting models (e.g. gray forecasting and neural network models combined forecasting models), multilateral input-output models, decomposition models (e.g. index decomposition method, structural decomposition method), Dr. Wang has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers (corresponding author) in high profile English journals.
These papers have been cited over 8,800 (Google Scholar)/ 7,100(Scopus)/ 6,200 (WoS) times by October 2022. 19 papers are selected as global ESI 0.1% Hot Papers, and 36 papers are selected as global ESI 1% Highly Cited Papers that perform in the top 1%. Dr. Wang’s h index is 53 (Google Scholar)/ 49(Scopus)/ 46 (WoS).
Lei Wang
Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Research interests include Geocomputation, GeoAI, Remote Sensing of water, Spectroscopic analyses, and mapping flood hazards.
Maarten J. Waterloo
PhD in water and nutrient cycling of pine plantation forests in Fiji. Specialised in the science of climate and land use change in relation to their impacts on surface and ground water hydrology and biogeochemical cycles. Expert in tropical natural and plantation forest ecohydrology, micro-meteorology, catchment hydrology, hydrochemistry and agricultural hydrology. Involved in a teaching a wide range of environmental water-related courses at BSc, MSc and PhD levels.
Louise Willemen
Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, of University of Twente, the Netherlands.PhD in spatial modelling from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.Worked before @ Bioversity International in Colombia, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy, Cornell University in the USA.Current roles: Coordinating Lead Author of the Land Degradation and Restoration assessment of IPBES, Chair of the Steering Committee of Ecosystem Services Partnership, and editorial work for several journals. Ecosystem services and rural development researcher. Current research includes RS-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, and prioritization of investments in land degradation neutrality actions.
Matthew D Wilson
Matthew (Matt) Wilson is a Professor in Spatial Information and Director of the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a surface water hydrologist and geographical information scientist with specialisations including flood risk, surface water dynamics, water resources, remote sensing, numerical model development, uncertainty analysis and the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change. Previous research has included the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on flood risk and water resources in the Caribbean and the analysis of surface water hydrodynamics on a 300 km reach of the Amazon River in Brazil. In New Zealand, his current research includes leading the uncertainty theme for a national scale flood risk assessment, the creation of a digital twin for flood resilience, and the creation of algorithms for processing of novel airborne GNSS reflectometry measurements for estimation of soil water content.
Jianhua Xu
Jianhua Xu is Professor of Geography and Director of The Research Center for East-West Cooperation in China. He has published 16 books and more than 200 papers. He has worked as the editor of several academic journals, such as Journal of Desert Research, Areal Research and Development, Human Geography, Ecologic Science, Arid Land Geography, Chinese Geographical Science, Journal of Signal and Information Processing, PeerJ, International Journal of Ecology and Ecosolution, etc.
Hong Yang
Dr. Hong Yang is a Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, UK. His research interests include the effects of climate change and human activities on water environment, water-energy-carbon nexus, and resource management. He has led and been involved in research projects funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), European Research Council (ERC), Research Council of Norway (RCN), Chinese Natural Science Foundation (CNSF) and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).
Sercan Yapıcı
Sercan Yapıcı completed his PhD in 2017 with a thesis entitled "Determination of bio-ecological aspects and food interactions of Randall's threadfin bream (Nemipterus randalli) and common pandora (Pagellus erythrinus) in the Gokova Bay”.
He is a researcher at Mugla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Fisheries since 2010. His main interest topics are non-native species in the Mediterranean Sea; risk analysis on marine bioinvasion.
Nasim A Yasin
Dr. Nasim Ahmad Yasin is a Associate Professor at the University of the Punjab carrying out research in the field of Horticulture and Environmental Science.
Educational background:
2021-2022: Post-Doctorate: Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.
2015: PhD: Institute of Agricultural Sciences: University of the Punjab Lahore.
1997: MSc. (Hon): University College of Agriculture, Rawalakot: The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir –Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir.
1995: BSc. (Hon): Barani Agriculture College, Rawalpindi. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Professor of Statistical Ecology at the Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology of UiT The Arctic University of Norway since 2003. Associate Editor of "Methods in Ecology and Evolution", "Ecography" and "Wildlife Biology", and former associate editors of Ecology and Ecology Letters.