Experts of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils
The
Plenary Assembly endorsed the list of 27 experts and approved the
establishment of the first Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils on
that basis. It asked the Secretariat to support and facilitate the
activities of the ITPS as may be requested by the Assembly, including
the organization of its first meeting, and assisting with its internal
organization
Asia
Prof. Dr. Milkha Singh Aulakh – India
Prof. Dr. Milkha Singh Aulakh is presently serving
as founder Vice Chancellor of Manyawar Shri Kashiram ji University of
Agriculture & Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh State of India. He
obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
He has a 39-year long career dedicated to education,
research and administration, besides about 10-year experience of
administrative and managerial level. He is a regular Consultant of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria to design and
formulate international research projects on Crop Improvement, Water,
Soil and Fertilizer Management. He has been the Vice President of the
Indian Society of Soil Science.
His research work was dedicated on developing and
optimizing nutrient-management strategies for high nutrient-efficient,
lower-unit cost crop production while minimizing environmental impacts;
and to effective communication of research findings to the state,
national and international agricultural community. His work has led to
the development of several reliable methodologies, new crop production
technologies and improved practices. He became youngest Fellow of the
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1996; Fellow of Indian
Society of Soil Science in 2000; and Hon. Fellow of Hi-Tech
Horticultural Society in 2012.
Dr. Pisoot Vijarnsorn – Thailand
Dr. Pisoot Vijarnsorn holds a master in Soil Survey
and Classification from University of Illinois, USA and a Ph.D. in Soil
Science from the University of Tokyo, Japan.
His past and present research work focuses on Soil
Survey and Classification, Soil Management, Land Use Planning and Farm
Planning. He also participated with ESCAP on Desertification Control for
several years and contributed to a study on Green House Gas Emission
for the Asian Countries.
He was the National Soil Correlator of Land
Development Department from 1990 to 1995, thereafter he became Senior
Specialist on Soil Survey and Classification in the same department from
1996 until his retirement in 2004. Currently, he is serving as Senior
Specialist on Land Development at Chaipattana Foundation. He is a member
of International Union of Soil Sciences, Soil and Fertilizer Society of
Thailand and Soil and Water Conservation Association of Thailand.
Dr. Kazuyuki Yagi – Japan
Dr. Kazuyuki Yagi is head of the Greenhouse Gas
Team, the Department of Global Resources at the National Institute for
Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan and a
member of several Japanese and American scientific societies.
He holds a Master and a Ph. D. from Nagoya
University in Biogeochemistry (1986) and in Soil Science (1996)
respectively. His areas of expertise are agricultural sources of trace
gases particularly in Asian agroecosystems, material cycling in
agricultural ecosystems, isotopic measurements, as well as
biogeochemistry and global environmental change. His current research
activities involve emissions of trace gases in association with
different land uses and agricultural management aiming at quantifying
and modeling the processes of these gas emissions and developing their
mitigation technologies.
Since 2008 he has been serving as a professor at
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School
of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Suk Young Hong – Republic of Korea
Dr. Suk Young Hong is a senior research scientist
and head of the Soil Information Lab, working at Soil and Fertilizer
Management Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS),
Rural Development Administration (RDA), South Korea since 1995. She is a
soil scientist with extensive experience for soil database and soil
information of Korea.
She obtained her Ph.D. in 1999 from Kyungpook
National University, South Korea. She worked on the establishment of
Korean Soil Information System, soil prediction using VIS/NIR
spectroscopy, and digital mapping of soil properties including soil
organic carbon and available water capacity. She also has a strong
background of remote sensing on agricultural environment such as land
cover classification, estimation of crop growth, and crop yield
prediction. Her group expands research interest on estimation of soil
moisture, evapotranspiration, and energy-water balance modelling in
agro-ecosystem using radar and thermal remote sensing.
She is now a vice-chair of ‘Division 1. Soil in
Space and Time’ of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) and
is supporting the organization of the 20th World Congress of Soil
Science. She is also involved in the GlobalSoilMap.net project and is a
science coordinator of its East Asia Node.
Prof. Dr. Gan Lin Zhang – China
Prof. Gan-Lin Zhang obtained his Ph.D on Soil
Science in 1993 from the hinese Academy of Sciences and since then has
been an employee at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of
Sciences.
His research areas cover soil genesis,
classification, digital soil mapping and soil information system, as
well as urban soils. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in
peer-reviewed journals and more than ten books/book chapters. He is on
the editorial board of many well-known soil science and geography
journals. He is one of the leaders in soil resource science in China. He
also serves in many governmental department and professional expert
panels regarding soil resource, earth surface processes and
environmental protection in China and abroad.
He has been actively involved in international
scientific cooperations and communications. He is currently involved in
the GlobalSoilMap.net project and is the leader of its East Asia Node.
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