Drs. Stephen Prince and Uriel Safriel and Inbal Reshef attended the Jacob Blaustein Institutes and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification – Annex IV nations conference on Deserts and Desertification held in Sede Boqer, near Beer Sheva in Israel, 6-9 November. Professor Safriel, currently on three-year sabbatical in the Geography Department and National UNCCD Focal Point for Israel, past Director of the Blaustein Institute, and a world leader in desertification research and mitigation, chaired the international advisory committee. Prof. Safriel delivered two major speeches. Dr. Prince convened a session on remote sensing technologies and delivered papers on global mapping of desertification and on multiple stable states in desertified ecosystems. Inbal Reshef contributed an overview of the USAID-sponsored research on global agricultural monitoring, a project led by Dr. Justice in which she is a research assistant.



For more details of the conference:
http://www.desertopportunities.org/site/
http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/docs/conf_israel-nov2006.pdf>