Prof. Dr. Rattan Lal
Professor of Soil Science
Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources
http://senr.osu.edu/our-people/rattan-lal
2014 wurde er von Thomas Reuters in die Liste der World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2002-2013) aufgenommen.
Rattan Lal stammt aus Indien, hat an der Punjab Agricultural University und am Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)in Delhi Agrarwissenschaften studiert und 1968 an der Ohio State University im Fach Bodenwissenschaften promoviert.
Beruflicher Werdegang
(unvollständige Liste)
| 1963 – 1965 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, The Rockefeller Foundation, New Delhi, India |
| 1966 - 1968 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, OARDC, Wooster, OH, U.S.A. |
| 1968 – 1969 | Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 1970 - 1987 | Bodenwissenschafter, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 1987 – 2011 | Prof. für Bodenwissenschaften, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2000 – | Direktor, South Asia Program, IPA, FAES, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2006 – 2007 | President, Soil Science Society of America |
| 2009 | Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2011 – 2012 | Sr. Science Advisor, Inst. Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany |
| 2001 – | Direktor, Carbon Mgt. & Sequestration Program, OARDC/OSU, Columbus, OH |
| 2011 – | Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science |
| 2011 – | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, SERDP, DOD, Washington, D.C. |
| 2011 – 2014 | Member, FAC, 3rd Climate Assessment Report, NOAA, Washington, D.C. |
| 2013 | Member, Advisory Board, Food Agriculture and Climate Change (FACCE), E.C. |
| 2013 – | Member, Steering Committee, Global Soil Week (IASS), Potsdam, Germany |
| 2014 – | Chair, Advisory Committee, UNU-FLORES, Dresden, Germany |
| 2014 – | President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
Veröffentlichungen
Rattan Lal gehört zu den highly cited authors (h-Faktor: 106) mit: Publikationen in Fachzeitschriften: > 1850 Bücher (als Autor/Editor): 70 Buchkapitel: 404
Tätigkeiten in Organisationen
2014 Thomas Reuters: World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2002-2013) 2014 – President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences, Vienna, Austria 2007 – 2008 Member, NRC/NAS Panel on Africa and Asia, NRC/NAS, Washington, D.C. 2006 – 2007 President, Soil Science Society of America 2006 Editor for the Americas, Land Degradation & Development, J. Wiley & Sons, U. K. 2004 – Co-Editor-in-Chief, Soil & Tillage Research, Elsevier, Holland 2003 – 2005 Lead Author, U.N. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2000 – Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Dekker, NY, Taylor and Francis 2000 – 2005 Member, Review Panel, Environ. Division, Los Alamos National Lab., New Mexico 1998 – 2002 Member, U.S. Nat'l Comm. on Soil Sci., Nat'l Acad. Sci., Washington, D.C. 1998 – 2000 Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, LULUCF, Geneva, Switzerland 1993 – 1996 Corresponding author, IPCC Working Group II: Geneva, Switzerland 1990 – 1993 Member NRC/NAS Panel on Sustainable Agric. NRC, Washington, D.C. 1990 – 1992 Member NRC/NAS Panel on Vetiveria, NRC, Washington, D.C 1988 – 1991 President, Int’l Soil Tillage Research Organization 1987 – 1990 President, World Association of Soil and Water Conservation 1982 – 1987 Vice President, Int’l Commission on Continental Erosion, Exeter, U.K.
Auszeichnungen
Ehrendoktorate verschiedener Universitäten und zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, Liste in: http://senr.osu.edu/sites/senr/files/imce/files/CVs/2015/Lal_CV%202pg.pdf
Artikel von Rattan Lal auf Scienceblog.at
- 11.12.2015: Der Boden – die Lösung globaler Probleme liegt unter unseren Füßen
- 04.12.2015: Der Boden – Grundlage unseres Lebens
- 27.11.2015: Boden – Der große Kohlenstoffspeicher