The Advisory Board consists of an international group of 12 external cooperation partners and independent experts and accompanies the establishment of TERENO. The Advisory Board has the power to determine up to 3 co-opted Members as appropriate. The members of the Advisory Board are appointed for a term of office amounting to 2 years with the possibility to be renominated. The Advisory Board nominates or elects a Chair and a Vice Chair from its members. Their term of office is 2 years with the possibility to be re-elected for a further term.
The Advisory Board was constituted during the TERENO Kick-off Meeting September 22, 2008 in Berlin. The Advisory Board accompanies the implementation process of TERENO.
The Advisory Board members are:
- Prof. Dr. Karsten Høgh Jensen
- University of Copenhagen
Coordinator of HOBE - Prof. Dr. Remko Uijenhoet
Department of Water Management
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Delft University of Technology - Prof. Dr. Valerie Trouet
University of Arizona - Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius
University of Jena - Prof. Jeffrey McDonnell
University of Saskatechewan - Dr. Jaana Kaarina Bäck
Department of Forest Sciences
University of Helsinky - Dr. Hank Loescher
Strategic Director of NEON - Prof. (em) Dr. Dani Or
Division of Hydrologic Sciences (DHS)
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) - Dr. Nicolas Arnaud
Institut national des sciences de l'univers du CNRS - Prof. Dr. Alexander Knohl
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Prof. Ute Maria Skiba
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Previous members:
- Prof. Dr. Hangsheng (Henry) Lin
Pennsylvania State University
Coordinator of the Hydropedology initiative and the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory - Professor Dr. Russell K. Monson
University of Colorado - Prof. emeritus Dr. Hannes Flühler
ETH Zürich - Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel
President of the German Federal Nature Conservation Agency - Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer
University Hohenheim - Prof. Kurt Nicolussi
University of Innsbruck - Dr. Richard P. Hooper
Director Emeritus of CUAHSI
The Advisory Board and the Scientific Steering Committee in front of the Einstein Tower (2019); in the back from left: Hank Loescher, Rick Hooper, Erik Borg, Alexander Knohl, Jaana Bäck, Thomas Pütz, Harry Vereecken, Dani Or, Martin Schrön; in front from left: Ingo Heinrich, Eckart Priesack, Harald Kunstmann, Heye Bogena, Ralf Kiese, Peter Dietrich, Matthias Mauder, Remko Uijenhoet