High Elevations Steering Committee (HE-SC)

The High Elevations Steering Committee (HE-SC) is made up of 9 experts in high elevation studies coming from different countries. The role of the Steering Committee Members is to provide scientific guidance in formulating the program for the HE working group in order to address research activities at furthering the understanding of the global energy and water cycles in high elevations areas.

Dr. Gianni Tartari Chair Research Director at Water Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRSA) Italy Field of Expertise: limnology, water quality, atmospheric deposition chemistry Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Kenichi Ueno Scientific Coordinator Associate Professor at Graduate School of Life and Environmental sciences,University of Tsukuba Japan Field of Expertise: meteorology and climatology Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Vladimir Aizen Professor at Department of Geography, College of Science, University of Idaho USA Field of Expertise: glaciology, hydrology and climatology; global and regional climate and environmental change analysis, alpine ice-coring research and isotope-geochemistry, land-surface and remote sensing data analysis; water and chemical cycle study in alpine watersheds Curriculum Vitae
Prof. René Garreaud Associate Professor at Department of Geophysics, University of Chile Chile Field of Expertise: meteorology and climatology Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Stefan Grab Associate Professor at School of Geography, Arch. & Environ. Studies, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Field of Expertise: periglacial geomorphology and climate change analysis in African Mountain Environments Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Yaoming Ma Director of Lhasa Branch of Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research - Chinese Academy of Sciences Director of Comprehensive Observation and Research Station at Mt. Everest - Chinese Academy of Sciences China Field of Expertise: boundary layer meteorology and satellite remote sensing applications Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Annarita Mariotti Climate Prediction Program for the Americas, Associate Program Manager at NOAA’s Climate Program Office USA Field of Expertise: water cycle, climate variability and change, impacts of climate and water cycle variability Curriculm Vitae
Prof. Axel Thomas Associate Professor at Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg - Mainz University Germany Field of Expertise: evapotraspiration and water balance modelling, climate data interpolation in mountain areas, climate trend analysis, GIS, remote sensing; statistics and geostatistics Curriculum Vitae