Professional Service
This section describes my current and past effort devoted to scientific organizations that coordinate research, outreach, and education activities in the area of ecology and the environment.
Current:
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Advisor, National Science Foundation, Environmental Research and Education, 2007-
- President, SCOPE, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, 2005-08
- Member, Science Council, The Nature Conservancy, 2005-2007
Past:
- Secretary General of SCOPE, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, 2001- 05.
- Editorial Board of Climate Research, Inter Research, 1992-05.
- Editor Global Change Biology, Blackwell Scientific, 2003-05.
- Editorial Board of Ecosystems, Springer Verlag, 1997-2004.
- Editorial Board of Oecologia, Springer Verlag, 1994-2004.
- Member at large Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America, 2002-2004.
- Chair of “Red LatinoAmericana de Botánica”, 2001-2004
- Scientific Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), 1994-1996.
- Scientific Steering committee of Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE), a core project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, 1991-1999.
- Leader, Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE). Focus 4, Global Change and Ecological Complexity, 1994-1999.
- Steering committee of America's Interhemisphere Geo-Biosphere Organization (AMIGO), 1991-1995.
- Scientific Advisory Committee of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Soils and Sediment, a program of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), 1995-1999.
- Scientific Advisory Committee of Diversitas, An International Programme of Biodiversity Science, IUBS, SCOPE, UNESCO, ICSU, IGBP-GCTE, and IUMS, 1995- 2001.
- Chair of "Red LatinoAmericana de Botánica"2001-2004
- Scientific Steering Committee of "Red LatinoAmericana de Botánica"1999-2001.
- Biology Panel, National Research Council of Argentina, 1989-1992.
- Vicepresident Ecological Society of Argentina, 1991-1993.
- President Ecological Society of Argentina, 1997-1999 and 1999-2001.
- Editorial Board of Global Change Biology, Blackwell Scientific, 1994-2003.
- Editorial Board of Plant Ecology (formerlyVegetatio), Kluwer academic publishers, 1990-1996.
- Scientific Steering Committee of SCOPE, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, 1998-2001.
