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. 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
  
  
• Dr. Jaana Kaarina Bäck
  Department of Forest Sciences
  University of Helsinky
  
  
• Dr. Hank Loescher
  Director of Strategic Development, Battelle, Environment and Infrastructure National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
  
  
• Dr. Nicolas Arnaud
  Institut national des sciences de l'univers du CNRS
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Knohl
  Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  
  
• Prof. Dörthe Tetzlaff
  Humboldt-University; Head of Department “Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry” -IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany & Hydrology
  
  
• Dr. Isabelle Braud
  INRAE, RiverLy, Lyon, France & Hydrology
  
  

The Advisory Board and the Scientific Steering Committee during the TERENO Workshop in Garmisch Partenkirchen (2022); in the back from left: Thomas Pütz, Harry Vereecken, Hank Loescher, Dani Or, Nadine Rühr, Peter Dietrich, Ute Skiba, Jaana Bäck, Alexander Knohl, Karsten Høgh Jensen, Susanne Liebner, Martin Schrön, Christiane Schmullius; in front from left: Steffen Zacharias, HaPe Schmid, Heye Bogena, Ralf Kiese Theresa Blume

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
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Karsten Høgh Jensen
  University of Copenhagen
  
  
• Prof. (em) Dr. Dani Or
  Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Jeffrey J. McDonnell
  Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tappeiner
  Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Sonia Seneviratne
  Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich
  
  
• Dr. Bas van Geel
  Department of Paleoecology and Landscape, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  
  
• Dr. Malcolm W. J. Davidson
  European Space Agency, Mission Science Division
  
  
• Prof. Ute Maria Skiba
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  
  

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

TERENO is managed by the TERENO Coordination Board, which is a group of four coordinators from the research centres FZJ, UFZ, KIT and GFZ. The Coordination Board is responsible for the day-to-day management of TERENO. Working with the Scientific Steering Committee, the Advisory Board and the Coordination Teams, it will develop plans for implementing the TERENO activities and ensure that the plans are carried out. The Coordination Board will plan and facilitate integration and synthesis exercises, including workshops, meetings and conferences. Furthermore it will supervise the capacity building, knowledge transfer and external communication in conjunction with the Scientific Steering Committee.

PD Dr. Heye Bogena

Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3)PD Dr. Heye BogenaForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
52425 Jülich / Germany

Phone: +49-(0)2461-616752
Fax: +49-(0)2461-612518

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Web page: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ibg/ibg-3

Dr. Steffen Zacharias

Department Monitoring and Exploration TechnologiesDr. Steffen ZachariasHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig / Germany

Phone:+49 (0)341 235-1381
Fax:+49 (0)341 235-2126

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Web page: http://www.ufz.de

PD Dr. Ralf Kiese

Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, IMK-IFUPD Dr. Ralf Kiese Karlsruher Institute of Technology
Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19
82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)8821 183130
Fax: +49 (0)8821 183243

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Web page: https://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/Personen_Ralf.Kiese.php

Dr. Gerhard Helle

Sektion 4.4: Hydrologie Dr. Gerhard HelleGerman Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Phone: +49 (0) 331 6264-1377
Fax: +49 (0)331/288-1302

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Web page: https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/staff/gerhard.helle/sec46/

TERENO is managed by the TERENO coordination board (CB), a group of four coordinators from the research centres FZJ, UFZ, GFZ and KIT. The CB is responsible for the day-to-day management of TERENO. Working with the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), the Advisory Board and the Coordination Teams, the CB coordinates TERENO activities, such as facilitating integration and synthesis exercises, including workshops, meetings and conferences, as well as supervising capacity building, knowledge transfer and external communication in conjunction with the SSC.

The Scientific Steering Committee consists of representatives from the involved research centres. Its main task is to decide the basic configuration of the observatories, including the selection of instruments, networking with external partners, and the integration of the infrastructure in national and international programs as well as the strategic planning of future activities within the TERENO framework.

The Advisory Board provides expert counsel to the TERENO Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) concerning ongoing and future activities as well as the formulation of scientific and infrastructural strategies within TERENO. These recommendations are grounded in annual reports provided by the TERENO SSC and deliberations during annual meetings, at which the TERENO SSC presents the current status of developments within TERENO and provides an overview of ongoing and future projects and activities.

For more information:

• TERENO Coordination
  
• Scientific Steering Committee
  
• Advisory Board

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• CT Environmental Sensing
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• CT Data Management
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