Osvaldo Sala
Director, Environmental Change Initiative
Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology
Osvaldo_Sala@brown.edu
In addition to his research on the dynamics of arid ecosystems and his teaching and administrative roles at Brown, Osvaldo Sala is President of SCOPE, the UN’s Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, and has served at the president of the Argentine Ecological Society.
Sala was also a lead author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a broad international effort to gauge the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and has been a member of the scientific steering committee of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and DIVERSITAS. |