The HE Steering Committee

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

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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

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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

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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

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Prof. Axel Thomas
Scientific Consultant, GIS-Service-GmbH, Wackernheim, Germany Lecturer (Privatdozent) at Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg - Mainz University
Germany

Field of Expertise: Evapotranspiration and water balance modelling, climate data interpolation in mountain areas, climate trend analysis, GIS, remote sensing; statistics and geostatistics

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