We are very pleased to announce that Dr Kai Schwärzel will soon act as the new Head of the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests under the UNECE Air Convention.

Kai is a senior expert of soil science and forest hydrology. Over the last six years, Kai served as the head of the Soil and Land-use Management unit at the Dresden based Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-Flores), which is part of the United Nations University network. Kai is very experienced in the application, establishment, and coordination of research programmes, and he is very pleased to offer his expertise and experience in order to coordinate and further develop the forest monitoring under ICP Forests.

We are very happy that he will be joining our team and look forward to working with him.

Alexa Michel
on behalf of the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests