Experts at the Conference: Riccardo Valentini

Forest Ecology Laboratory
Faculty of Agricolture
University of Tuscia
Via Camillo de Lellis, snc
01100 Viterbo
Italy
         
Education
Degree in Biophysics at the University of Rome, 1985
         
Research interests
Forest ecology and biogeochemistry, particularly carbon balance estimation by means of different methodologies including eddy covariance measurements and models
                   
Activities
Chairman of the CARBOEUROPE cluster of EC projects dealing with the Carbon balance of Europe.
Coordinator of the EC Environment and Climate programme EUROFLUX - Long term carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes of European forests and interactions with the Climate System.
Coordinator of the EC Environment and Climate (ENRICH) programme EURASIA-NET A contribution to the development of a joint Europe Asia collaboration in understanding carbon and water exchanges of terrestrial ecosystems.
Scientific responsible in the EC Environment and Climate programme VOCAMOD - Biogenic volatile organic compound emission modelling for European forest canopies.
Scientific responsible in the EC Environment and Climate programme MEDEFLU - Carbon and water fluxes of mediterranean forests and impacts of land use/cover changes.
Scientific responsible in the EC Environment and Climate programme LBA - EUSTACH European studies on trace gases and atmospheric chemistry as a contribution to the large scale biosphere atmosphere experiment in Amazonia.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Global Change Biology.
European Commission expert on the Panel " Grenhouse gases sinks related to Kyoto protocol".
Nominated in the IPCC board for "Land change use and forestry".
Member of the IGBP Terrestrial Carbon Working Group, The terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol.
Member of the Scientific steering Committee of the IGBP - BAHC core project.
Task leader of the IGBP - GCTE core project 1.3.2 : Ecological controls on biosphere - atmosphere CO2 and H2O fluxes.