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Principal Expert Committee

The Principal Expert Committee defines the technical tasks of the Monitoring Centre and sets the priorities for implementation. Fundamental specific issues are discussed and decided upon together and recommendations are formulated. Find out about the activities of the Principal Expert Committee.

Mandate

The Principal Expert Committee combines the broad professional expertise of the biodiversity monitoring community. The Committee discusses and decides on critical issues related to the strategic direction of the Monitoring Centre and nationwide biodiversity monitoring.

Goals and tasks

These issues include:

  • Advancing the nationwide biodiversity monitoring
  • Establishing expert committees and setting themes
  • Defining thematic focus for the "Application and Research in Dialogue" forums
  • Prioritising the professional work of the Monitoring Centre

Current activities and topics

  • Establishment of expert committees to delve deeper into specific issues:
    • "Monitoring of soil biodiversity and its functions"
    • "Improvement of data availability for influencing factors"
    • "Data management" (in planning)
  • Adoption of a preliminary concept and roadmap for the development of a comprehensive national biodiversity monitoring plan
  • Adoption of a position paper on the Information and Networking Platform
  • Decision to undertake pilot projects for co-financing
  • Specialist event to determine priority goals for national biodiversity monitoring
  • Collaboration with regional expert authorities to improve data exchange
  • Topics for the "Application and Research in Dialogue" forum of the Monitoring Centre
  • National biodiversity monitoring objectives adopted
  • Collaboration in shaping the overall concept for nationwide biodiversity monitoring

Participants

In the Principal Expert Committee, experts from the following institutions can be involved: 

  • Federal authorities working in the areas of the ministries BMUV, BMEL, BMBF, BMF, BMVg, and BMDV
  • Specialist institutions or project sponsors commissioned by federal ministries
  • Research institutions
  • State authorities
  • Specialist associations (voluntary sector)

Members List

Current overview of the members of the Principal Expert Committee:

The links lead to the profiles of the individuals in their respective institutions, if available.

NameInstitution 
Federal authorities 
Dr. Pia BartelsFederal Highway Research Institute (bast)
Dr. Michael GerischGerman Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)
Dr. Britta KnefelkampFederal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Ester KochFederal Office of Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services of the German Armed Forces (BAIUDBw)
Dr. Martin LudwigNational Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity (NMZB)
Dr. Silvia PieperFederal Environment Agency (UBA)
Simone RichterFederal Environment Agency (UBA)
Christine SchleupnerInstitute for Federal Real Estate
Sabine SteinInstitute for Federal Real Estate
Dr. Lina WeißNational Monitoring Centre for Biodiversity (NMZB)
Dr. Wiebke ZüghartFederal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Dr. Johanna WiderFederal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
State authorities 
Jenny BehmBaden-Württemberg State Institute for the Environment, Survey and Nature Conservation (LUBW)
PD Dr. Heike CulmseeMecklenburg-Vorpommern State Agency for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology (LUNG MV)
Dr. Juliane RühlState Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia (LANUV)
Dr. Detlef TolkeState Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology Saxony (LfULG)
Education and research 
Prof. Dr. Christian AmmerUniversity of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Andreas BolteThünen-Institute of Forest Ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Helge BruelheideMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg 
Prof. Dr. Jens DauberInstitute of Biodiversity
Dr. Barbara EbertManaging Director GFBio - Society for Biological Data e.V.
Dr. Gerd KrausThünen Institute of Sea Fisheries
Dr. Martin MuscheHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Halle (UFZ)
N.N.German Centre for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF)
Specialist associations 
Birgit BeckersFederation of Biological Stations North Rhine-Westphalia
Dr. Tobias Erik ReinersFederation of German Avifaunists (DDA)
Dr. Meike TeschkeGerman Research Foundation (DFG)
Research museums 
Prof. Dr. Dr. Volker MosbruggerSenckenberg Nature Research Society 
Prof. Dr. Christoph ScherberCentre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm)
Project managment agencies 
Dr. Sebastian HoechstetterForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Contact at Monitoring Centre

Martin Ludwig
Contact Principal Expert Committee
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