GOVERNANCE
SCOPE is governed by a General Assembly that normally meets every three years. The Executive Committee is elected at each General Assembly by the Members and conducts the affairs of SCOPE between such meetings. It is responsible for the guidance and supervision of the scientific programme of SCOPE, as well as its activities in partnership with other organisations, and decisions on financial matters.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2009-2012
PRESIDENT
Lu Yonglong (China-CAST) is currently the Director General of the Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chair and Research Professor, Environmental Management and Policy Group at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS. His wide range of research interests include ecological impacts of persistent toxic substances, sustainability sciences, environmental management and policy, and strategic planning of science and technology development.
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VICE-PRESIDENT
Holm Tiessen (Germany) leads the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research based in San José dos Campos, Brazil. He has worked in the areas of nutrient availability and cycling in natural and agricultural ecosystems; carbon cycling; soil organic matter turnover and stabilisation; tropical landuse; drivers of and constraints on agricultural development. Dr Tiessen has more than 20 years of professional experience in science and science management, and international program funding.
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VICE-PRESIDENT
Jon Samseth (Norway-IUPAP) is professor in energy physics at the Department of Technology, Art and Design at Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA) and adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is also science advisor in the Department of Process Technology at SINTEF materials and chemistry, also based in Norway.
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TREASURER
Ahmed M. Hassan Farghally (Egypt) is professor of environmental cost accounting, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University, Egypt. Prof. Farghally has published numerous papers on environmental accounting and sustainable development and participated in the development of research projects on pollution, biodiversity conservation and economic valuation.
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SECRETARY GENERAL
Mary C. Scholes (South Africa), a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, is currently a full professor in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences and serves as the Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Science. Her research activities focus on soil fertility and biogeochemistry in savannas, plantation forests and croplands.
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Members
Magdy Attia Mohamed (Egypt) is Professor and Chairman of the Microbiology Department at the National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Ain Shams University and his Ph.D. from Al Azhar University. His research work and activities cover a number of areas in soil microbiology; biological nitrogen fixation, phosphorus transformation, bio-organic farming and recycling of organic wastes. His areas of proficiency include modern biotechnology, molecult biology, genetic engineering, microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry, taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, soil biology and biochemistry and biological nitrogen fixation. He has published more than 50 articles in specialized journals.
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Chang-Hung Chou (China-The Academy located in Taipei) is Dean of the College of Life Sciences and chair Professor and Director of the Research Center for Biodiversity, China Medical University, Taiwan. He obtained his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara in 1971 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in 1972.
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Luiz A. Martinelli is professor at the Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, University of São Paulo in Brazil. His research into the ecology and geochemistry of the Amazon Basin has earned him recognition as one of Brazil's leading scientists in his field. In addition to publishing numerous papers in scientific journals, over the past several years Dr. Martinelli has participated in numerous SCOPE projects, and served on the steering committee of the INI-International Nitrogen Initiative, a joint SCOPE-IGBP programme. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.
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Annelies Pierrot-Bults (The Netherlands-SCOR) is currently Guest Scientist at the Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and was formerly the Head of the Vermes/Marine Plankton Department at the Museum. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and was a member of the Faculty there. Her main research interests are taxonomy of Chaetognatha and Zooplankton Biogeography. In addition to her numerous publications, she is widely involved in international programmes (IOC/UNESCO, IUBS, SCOR, Census of Marine Zooplankton), national scientific organisations and national and international womens’ issues councils.
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Past Presidents of SCOPE
2005-09 O.E. Sala (Argentina)
1998-05 J.M. Melillo (USA)
1995-98 Ph. Bourdeau (Belgium)
1992-95 J.W.B. Stewart (Canada)
1988-92 F. di Castri (Italy)
1985-88 J.W.M. la Rivière (The Netherlands)
1982-85 R.O. Slatyer (Australia)
1976-82 G.F. White (USA)
1973-76 V.A. Kovda (USSR)
1969-73 J.E. Smith, FRS (UK)
MEMBERS
Members of SCOPE are institutions and organizations that have a demonstrated interest in bringing the best science to bear on environmental stewardship, share a mutual interest in environmental science and assessments, and develop joint projects, programmes and funding opportunities.Membership is based on the principle of inclusiveness, and is open to appropriate bodies in these broad categories:
- Governmental and inter-governmental organizations;
- Non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations;
- Scientific and technical research and assessment bodies such as academic, scientific and research institutions, scientific academies, research councils, or associations of such institutions, and international scientific unions;
- Industry and the private sector including businesses and their associations, and federations of business and industry.
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SECRETARIAT
Communications Susan Greenwood Etienne
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Accounts Françoise Pascal
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