21-22 May, 2004

Grand Valley State University

Allendale, MI

WGVU Global Connections program, May 19, 2004. Round table discussion about the environmental problems in Central Asia with Professors Henebry, Yermilow,  Lioubimtseva, and Ma . File is 12 Mb in size.

WGVU interview with Dr. Philip Micklin, specialist on the Aral Sea region, 21 July, 2004. File is 5 Mb in size.

Radio Free Europe interview with Dr. Elena Lioubimseva, 21 May, 2004.

Yunden Bayarjargal. Comparison study of NOAA-AVHRR derived drought indices using change vector analysis technique. Researcher, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Kuatbay Bektemirov. Water user associations as an instrument in allocating scarce natural resources in Uzbekistan. Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, USA.

Kuatbay Bektemirov and Luke Potoski. Applying GIS for water resource management in the Aral Sea Region. Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, USA.

Abror Gafurov. Influence of water use on climate change in the Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia. University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Geoffrey Henebry. Changing land surface phenology in Kazakhstan. Research Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska, USA.

Ranjeet John. Interactions of land with climate in arid and semi-arid regions: assimilation of remote sensing and functional models. Department of Geography and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, USA.

Ranjeet John. Rangeland information products from remote sensed imagery in Afghanistan. Department of Geography and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, USA.

Etem Karakaya. Determinants of CO2 emissions changes in Central Asia: a decomposition index analysis. Professor, Department of Economics, Adnan Menderes University, Turkey.

Dilyor Kayumov. Achieving ecosystem stability on the exposed Aral seabed and the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. United Nations Development Program, Uzbekistan.

Rashid Kulmatov. Modern problems of natural environment change, water and land resources in Uzbekistan. Professor and Vice-President, Termez State University, Uzbekistan.

German Kust. Desertification in the Pre-Aral Sea region in the past, at present and in the future: assessment and mapping. Professor and Vice-Director, Institute of Soil Science, Moscow State University, Russia.

Elena Lioubimtseva. Climate and ecosystem changes in arid lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan inferred from AVHRR NOAA series from 1982 to 2001. Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning Department, Grand Valley State University, USA.

Philip Micklin. Water and the future of the Aral Sea basin. Emeritus Professor, Geography Department, Western Michigan University, USA.

Muhtor Nasyrov, The main drivers of climate change in Central Asia. Samarkand University, Uzbekistan, currently Colorado State University, USA.

Melvin Northup. West Michigan beware, Aral first, Great Lakes next. Professor, Department of Biology and Natural Resources, Grand Valley State University, USA.

Davron Nurbaev. Change in water resources of the Aydar-Arnasay lake system as a result of changing priorities of water reservoirs regulation in the Syrdarya River Basin. Central Asian Research Hydrometeorological Institute, Uzbekistan.

Artem Yermilov. Radioecological situation in Kazakhstan as an important environmental factor. Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Nuclear Center, Kazakhstan, currently Fulbright scholar, University of Georgia, USA.

Artem Yermilov. A novel approach to human bioresistance to anthropogenic ecological stress. Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics of the National Nuclear Center, Kazakhstan, currently Fulbright scholar, University of Georgia, USA.

Zalibek Zalibekov. Anthropogenic changes in the Caspian plain soil under conditions of desertification. Director, Caspian Institute of Biological Resources, Daghestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.