Conference Committee

Honorary Chair:

Joseph Hess, Retired Government Technical Manager and International Aerospace Consultant Responsible for Transition of New Technology into U.S. Space Program

Conference Co-chairs: 

Sharon B. Megdal, Director, The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) 
Charles Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona

Members of the Conference Committee:

Hakam Al Alami, Advisor to HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, Majis El Hassan on Water and Sanitation, Jordan
Alan Gertler, Research Professor Emeritus, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute (DRI), USA
Barbara Hutchinson, semi-retired, Director of Rangelands Partnership Initiative, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona, USA
Arnon Karnieli, Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Israel
Doron Markel, Chief Scientist, Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael-Jewish National Fund, Israel
Isam Mustafa, Assistant President, National Center for Research and Development (NCRD), Jordan
Manoj K Shukla, Director of ACES Global Programs and Aggies Go Global and Professor of Soil Physics in the College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, USA
Benjamin Turner, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA

Conference Manager

David Quanrud, Research Scientist, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona, USA

Student Participation Coordinator 

Amber Dalke, Senior Research Specialist, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, The University of Arizona, USA