Biography
Lisa Goddard is the Director of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society and leads IRI’s research efforts on understanding and predicting climate change on the 10-20 year horizon. She is also an adjunct associate professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Goddard is a globally recognized expert on El Niño and La Niña, decadal prediction and near-term climate change. She sits on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the U.S. National Academies of Science, as well as four others. She also co-chairs CLIVAR, which advises and coordinates international research on climate and the oceans under the World Climate Research Programme. In 2007, she developed PACE, a national post-doctoral program that explicitly links recent climate Ph.D.s with decision making institutions.
Research Interest
Tropical Oceanography, Climate Modeling, Paleoclimate, Impacts of Climate on Society, El Niño forecasting, DataAnalysis Methods.
Biography
Dr. Aruna Saxena obtained B.Arch. (Architecture) in 1992 and MUP (Urban Planning) from School of planning & Architecture, New Delhi in 1994. She did Ph.D. in Architecture using Remote Sensing & GIS technology in 2002. She did Specialization in Advance Remote Sensing and GIS from International Institute of Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands in 2006. She has traveled to USA, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, France, Singapore, Dubai,Egpyt, Australia for academic purpose.
Research Interest
Geo-spatial techniques, Lake water quality, Fuzzy set
Biography
Ivlev has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Chemical Technology Institute of D.I.Mendeleyev and postdoctoral studies from Stanford Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Professor of Russian State Agrarian University of K.A. Timiryazev. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and 4 scientific monographs. He has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Ecosystems & Ecography and of Allied Journal of Enviromental Earth Sciences. In 2005 he was awarded the medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences “To Author of Scientific Discovery†.
Research Interest
Geochemistry, Evolution