Richard B. Schlesinger, Joint Program Coordinator, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Science and Mathematics), Dyson College of Arts and Sciences; Professor and Chair, Department of Biology and Health Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Director, Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Pace University. Author of more than 150 papers. rschlesinger@pace.edu
Salvatore Grimaldi , PhD, Joint Program Coordinator, Associate Professor, Department GEMINI, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Author of numeorus papers in Statistcal Hydrology and Terrain analysis with GIS, is Guest editor and reviewer of several international Journals. Visiting scientist at Massachussetts Institute of Technology and New Mexico Institute of Technology is Secretary of Executive Committee of Honors Center of Italian University – H2CU; salvatore.grimaldi@unitus.it
Paolo De Angelis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department DISAFRI, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Author of more then 80 papers on Forest Ecophysiology and Ecology, with particular emphasis on the study of the impacts of climate changes (temperature, drought, elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration) on trees, forests and shrub land.
Goffredo Filibeck,PhD, Researcher, Department of Agrobiology and Agrochemistry,Università della Tuscia, Italy.Born and educated in Rome , where he graduated in Natural Sciences. He got his Ph.D. degree in Plant Ecology at the University of Florence in 2002. Permanent position as researcher at Università della Tuscia since 2006, where he teaches Environmental Botany. Main research fields and interests: Biogeography, Plant communities, Vegetation and landscape dynamics.
Michelle D. Land, Director of “Environmental consortium of Hudson valley colleges and universities”, and Program Coordinator of “Pace academy for the environment”, Adjunct Assistant Professor, since 2003 at PACE University in the Environmental Studies undergraduate program and Environmental Science graduate program in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. Adjunct Lecturer, since 2006 at New York University in environmental politics course in the graduate Environmental Conservation Education program of the Steinhardt School of Education.
Margaret Minnis, PhD, Teaching undergraduate and graduate level environmental science, chemistry, GIS, environmental assessment, waste management, history of wastewater treatment, environmental communications. Assistant Director of Pace University ’s Graduate Program in Environmental Science. Served ten years on Town of Darien, CT ’s Conservation and Environmental Protection Commissions. Studied options for town environmental action, including hazardous household waste collection, the ecological condition of town streams, the development of wetlands regulations and soils evaluation. Author of several
Andrea Petroselli, Permanent position as Researcher of Hydraulics and Irrigation, Department GEMINI, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, from 2004, where he teaches Irrigation and Drainage and works on Soil and river stabilization, Irrigation and drainage, River protection and use, Soil erosion and watershed management. petro@unitus.it
Elena Pettinelli, PhD, is a researcher of the Physics Department (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tre”) with proven experience in ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic properties of geomaterials. Her specific work in GPR is focused on antenna calibration, target identification, geological, environmental and archaeological applications and more recently on subsurface planetary investigations with rover-driven or orbiting radars. Moreover, her experience in soil and rocks electromagnetic parameters regards time (TDR) and frequency domain techniques.
Kevin A. Reilly, PhD, principal appellate court attorney since 2004. Law Secretary to Hon. Peter Tom, New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division. Adjunct faculty at St. John’s University School of Law (Civil Rights Litigation; State and Local Government; American Indian Law); at PACE University (Environmental Law); City University of New York (American History, World History, American Government. Author and Editor of several publication on Environmental Law.
Marzio Zapparoli, Associate Professor of Zoology, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante. His research is mostly oriented on ecology, systematic and zoogeography of centipedes (Chilopoda), a group soil arthropods. Comparative studies on natural and artificial ecosystems fauna in Central Italy has been also carried out. Recently, studies on distribution and ecology of terrestrial vertebrate and insect fauna of Rome ( ) has been also developed.