The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Osvaldo Sala

I have explored several topics throughout my career from water controls on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems to the consequences of changes in biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems, including the development of biodiversity scenarios for the next 50 years. I am particularly interested in working with scenarios as a way of simplifying, understanding, and communicating the complex relationships that emerge from the study of social-ecological systems.

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Osvaldo Sala is the Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology and the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies and Brown University's Environmental Change Initiative, where he facilitates interdisciplinary research and teaching on environmental change. As president of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment and a coordinating lead author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Sala is an international leader in ecological science and global environmental policy.

His research on arid ecosystems has taken him to the Patagonian steppe, annual grasslands of California, steppes of Colorado, the deserts of Southern Africa, and the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico.

Sala has served as editor of Global Change Biology and the president of the Argentinean Society of Ecology. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Argentinean National Academy of Sciences, and the Argentinean National Academy of Physical and Natural Sciences.

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OSVALDO SALA, PhD
Professor
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Change Initiative, Center for Environmental Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3032
E-mail: Osvaldo_Sala@brown.edu

Osvaldo Sala's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Osvaldo_Sala

On The Web:
Brown ECI
Global Team Member Comments on Landmark Ecosystem Report
Life science departments will welcome 11 new faculty for 2004-05

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