Carmelo Dazzi is Full Professor of Pedology at the University of Palermo (IT) and Honorary Professor of the Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru.
His scientific research take into consideration mainly the genesis, classification and mapping of soils and their evaluation; the soil-plant relationships in xeric environments; soil degradation and desertification; anthropogenic soils, pedodiversity and pedo-ethnology.
He is member of the "Panel for Soil Quality" of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture; member of the Committee of International Referees of ATLAS Project - Atlas of Soil Quality Indicators, Italian Ministry of Agriculture.
He chaired several national and international conferences and congresses and was also invited speakers in 15 national and international congresses and symposia. He has published more than two hundred articles in national and international journals and edited 5 books. He has coordinated and/or participated in more than 15 national and international research projects.
He is the President of the European Society for Soil Conservation (ESSC) and the Vice-President of the Italian Society of Soil Science.
Joaquim G. Pinto (Germany/England)
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Name: Dr. Joaquim José Ginete Werner Pinto Present Appointment: Ass. Professor, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK Email/Phone: j.g.pinto@reading.ac.uk / 0044-118-3785064 Further Affiliation: Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany Email/Phone: jpinto@meteo.uni-koeln.de/ 0049-221-4703691
Education and Qualifications 06/1996 Licenciate University of Lisbon, Portugal 07/2002 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Cologne, Germany 07/2011 Habilitation University of Cologne, Germany
Appointments: 1996-1998 Scientific research assistant at ICAT, University of Lisbon, Portugal 1998-2002 PhD student at IGMK, University of Cologne, Germany 2002-2011 Scientific assistant at IGMK, University of Cologne, Germany Since 2011 Privatdozent (lecturer) and Research Group Leader at IGMK, University of Cologne, Germany Since 2013 Associate Professor in regional climate and synoptic meteorology at Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
Research Prizes 2008: The Gordon Manley Weather Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for 2007, presented in 2008. Prize received together with other IGMK colleagues
Selected recent peer review papers: Born K, Ludwig P, Pinto JG (2012) Wind gust estimation for Mid-European winter storms: towards a probabilistic view. Tellus A 64:17471 doi:10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.17471 Fink AH, Brücher T, Ermert V, Krüger A, Pinto JG (2009) The European storm Kyrill in January 2007: synoptic evolution and considerations with respect to climate change. Nat Hazards Earth Syst Sci 9:405-423. Held H, et al. (incl. Pinto JG) (2013) Projections of global warming-induced impacts on winter storm losses in the German private household sector. Clim Change 121:195-207 Ludwig P, Pinto JG, Reyers M, Gray SL (2013) The role of anomalous SST and surface fluxes over the Southeastern North Atlantic in the explosive development of windstorm Xynthia. Quart J R Meteorol Soc doi:10.1002/qj.2253 Neu U, et al. (incl. Pinto JG) (2013) IMILAST - a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms. Bull Amer Meteorol Soc 94:529-547 Pinto JG, Karremann MK, Born K, Della-Marta PM, Klawa M (2012) Loss potentials associated with European windstorms under future climate conditions. Clim Res 54:1-20 Pinto JG, Neuhaus CP, Leckebusch GC, Reyers M, Kerschgens M (2010) Estimation of wind storm impacts over West Germany under future climate conditions using a statistical-dynamical downscaling approach Tellus A 62:188-201. Pinto JG, Raible CC (2012) Past and recent changes in the North Atlantic oscillation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3:79-90 doi:10.1002/wcc.150 Pinto JG, Zacharias S, Fink AH, Leckebusch GC, Ulbrich U (2009) Factors contributing to the development of extreme North Atlantic cyclones and their relationship with the NAO. Clim Dyn 32:711-737. Ulbrich U, Leckebusch GC, Pinto JG (2009) Extra-tropical cyclones in the present and future climate: a review. Theor Appl Climatol 96:117-131. Woollings T, Gregory JM, Pinto JG, Reyers M, Brayshaw DJ (2012) Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean-atmosphere coupling. Nature Geoscience 5:313-317 doi:10.1038/ngeo1438
Uwe Ulbrich (Germany)
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Uwe Ulbrich Meteorology Institute for Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin
Research Interests
Physical understanding of meteorological extreme events, atmospheric variability patterns, climate variability and climate change,
Validation of climate models
Interdisciplinary research, impacts of meteorological extreme events and the insurance sector
Academic training and professional experience Since 2012 Vice-Dean for research of the Faculty of Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin 2007-2011 Acting Director of the Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Since 2004 Professor (C3) for General Meteorology, Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin 2000 Habilitation in Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany 1990-2004 Senior Scientist (permanent position), Institute of Meteorology, University of Cologne 1989 Dissertation in Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany 1985-1990 PhD student and Post-Doc position, University of Cologne 1985 Diploma in Geophysics at the University of Cologne, Germany 1978-1985 Student of Geophysics, University of Cologne, Germany 1985-90 Scientist, Institute of Geophysics und Meteorology, University of Cologne
Awards & Nominations 2008 Gordon Manley Weather Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society (with A. Fink and Co-authors)
Committees Executive editor: „Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences" Steering committee of the MedCLIVAR project (endorsed by CLIVAR SSG) Scientific board of the German Comittee for Disaster Reduction DKKV (deputy chair) Scientific board of the Research forum Public Safety and Security, Freie Universität Berlin Committee for Applications of the German National Grid Initiative NGI-DE (representative Geosciences)
Selected peer-reviewed ISI publications 1. Ulbrich, U., and M. Christoph, 1999: A Shift of the NAO and Increasing Storm Track Activity over Europe due to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Forcing. Climate Dynamics, 15, 551-559. 2. Eckhardt, K and Ulbrich, U, 2003: Potential impacts of climate change on groundwater recharge and streamflow in a central European low mountain range. J Hydrology, 284, 244-252 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.08.005 3. Pinto, J. G., Spangehl, T., Ulbrich, U., Speth, P., 2005. Sensitivities of a cyclone detection and tracking algorithm: individual tracks and climatology. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 14, 823-838 4. Leckebusch, G.C., Koffi, B., Ulbrich, U., Pinto, J., Spangehl, T., Zacharias, S.: Analysis of frequency and intensity of winter storm events in Europe on synoptic and regional scales from a multi-model perspective. Climate Research, 31, 59-74 5. Ulbrich U, Pinto JG, Kupfer H, Leckebusch GC, Spangehl T, Reyers M, 2008: Changing northern hemisphere storm tracks in an ensemble of IPCC climate change simulations J. Climate, 21, 1669-1679 6. Ulbrich, U., G.C. Leckebusch, J. Pinto, 2009: Extra-tropical cyclones in the present and future climate: a review. Theo. Appl. Climatology, 96, 117-131. DOI 10.1007/s00704-008-0083-8.
Communication
Probabilistic decadal prediction of extreme events in Europe
Else Marie Friis (Sweden)
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Else Marie Friis Professor of Palaeobotany and Head of Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
Female, Born: 18 June 1947, Holstebro, Denmark Education: Master of Science and Ph. D. (lic. scient.) in geology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Employment (excluding graduate and post doc experience 1971-1987): 1987-present Professor of Palaeobotany, Head of Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History 1995 Guest-professor, Inst. Syst. Botany, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland (summer term) 2006-2008 Deputy Director of Science, Swedish Museum of Natural History 2008 Acting Director of Science, Swedish Museum of Natural History 2013- Head of Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Board member of several committees, evaluation panels and Research Foundations since 1989 Co-organiser of several international meetings and symposia Member of editorial boards of several journals Invited speaker (including plenary and key note) at many international meetings Member of boards of several scientific associations
Membership of academies: 1990 Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1996 Royal Swedish Academy of Science 1998 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1998 Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, Sweden 2002 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Other academic distinctions: 1985 Hans Gram Medal, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1992 Nils Rosén Linné Prize in Botany, Royal Physiographic Society, Sweden 1999 Honorary Vice President for the XVI Intern. Bot. Congr., St. Louis, USA 1999 Honorary doctor (filosofie doktor honoris causa), University of Uppsala, Sweden. 2003 Honorary foreign member of the Linnean Society of London 2003 "Excellent researcher 2003" award from the Swedish Research Council 2005 Rolf Dahlgren Prize in Botany, Royal Physiographic Society, Sweden 2007 "Geologist of the year" appointed by the Swedish Association of Scientists 2009 Corresponding Member, Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Germany 2012 Denmarks Geology Prize 2011 from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (with Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen)
Communication
Fresh water lakes and wetland vegetation during the Cretaceous expansion of flowering plants
José A. do Carmo (Portugal)
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José Simão Antunes do Carmo
Graduation in Civil Engineering; Master in Hydraulics and Water Resources; Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, Civil Engineering area, speciality of Hydraulics and Water Resources; Aggregation in Civil Engineering. Author of over three dozen papers published in ISI Journals; more than a hundred publications in National and International Congresses; about two dozen papers in National Journals; over four dozen scientific reports; about three dozen opinion articles, and more than two dozen lectures as invited speaker. Author of the book "Modeling in Fluvial Hydraulics and Environment", and eight book chapters of International Editions. Co-Editor of three books: "Wastewater treatment" (Eds: G. Krantzberg, A.Tanik, J. Antunes do Carmo & A. Indarto); "River Basin Management III" (Eds: C. Brebbia & J.S. Antunes do Carmo), and "Water Pollution VIII: Modelling, Monitoring and Management" (Eds: C. Brebbia & J.S. Antunes do Carmo). Regular cooperation with several International ISI Journals in reviewing papers submitted for publication, most notably: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Journal of Advances in Engineering Software, Ocean & Coastal Management, Journal of Coastal Research, Journal of Hydrology and Ecological Modelling. Member of the Scientific Committee of more than three dozen of National and International Congresses, and Chairman or Member of the Organizing Committee of about two dozen of National and International Congresses. Scientific Advisor of three Research Programs of undergraduate students pre-Bologna and postdoctoral; eleven Dissertations pre-Bologna; eleven Dissertations post-Bologna, and two Ph.D. Thesis in Civil Engineering, speciality in Hydraulics and Water Resources, in the period October 1997 to December 2013. Scientific Advisor of other graduation projects, and various works/projects prepared under the Erasmus and Socrates programs. Coordinator of the Graduation Course in Civil Engineering of FCTUC, in the period November 1999 to December 2001. Coordinator of the "Water, Environment and Development" program, held at the University of Coimbra in the period September 1996 to September 2000; this program included two Masters and several annual Postgraduate Courses. Coordinator of the Masters Course in "Environmental Engineering", Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, in the period May 2004 to December 2010. Member of the Representatives Assembly of FCTUC, in the period 2006-2009, and Member of the Statutory Assembly of FCTUC, in the period November 2008 to May 2009.
Present interests/activities
Scientific Advisor of a Ph.D. Thesis in Environmental Engineering, of a Master's Dissertation on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment and a Master's Dissertation on Structural Mechanics. Director of the Portuguese Water Resources Journal, since July 1998, and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management, since October 2006. Editorial Board Member of Ocean & Coastal Management Journal, of The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, and of Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Advisory Board Member of the Portuguese Journal Territorium. Member of the Scientific Council of FCTUC, since October 2009.
José Simão Antunes do Carmo (Associate Professor with Aggregation) University of Coimbra FCTUC - Polo II of the University Department of Civil Engineering 3030-788 Coimbra Portugal Phone: +351 239 797 153 E-mail: jsacarmo@dec.uc.pt
Communication
The Challenges for the XXI Century: Water Resources, Human Action, and Sustainable Development
