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Sassan Saatchi

Sassan Saatchi is a Principal Scientist at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He has a Ph.D. degree from the George Washington University in 1988 with concentration in electrophysics and applied mathematics and more than 25 years of experience in remote sensing of forest structure and carbon dynamics. He has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of topics from local to regional scale understanding of forest dynamics from impacts of disturbance, modeling species diversity across the landscapes, and linking biological and ecological data with satellite observations. He has extensive expertise working in the tropical forests of the Amazon and Congo Basins since early 1990s focusing on the resilience of forest ecological and biological functions to a wide range of human and climate induced stresses.

Sassan Saatchi

Board of Directors

The Advisory Board oversees ART’s implementation in accordance with the evolving UNFCCC processes and guarantees good governance, transparent rules, and processes that assure quality and adequate safeguards. ART Advisory Board members have all agreed to the ART Board Charter and the ART Ethical Standard. Advisory Board members serve in their personal capacities, not as representatives of their organizations or of particular stakeholder groups.

ART Advisory Board Meeting Minutes are available to the public.

Secretariat

The ART Secretariat, hosted by Winrock International, is responsible for the operation of the ART program, including the development of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) and overseeing the registration, verification and issuance of Board-approved TREES Credits on the ART registry.