Title	Presenter	Institution
Dryland monitoring in Turkmenistan using remote sensing	Lea Orlovsky	Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Central-Asian institute for applied geosciences	Ch. Reigber	Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences
Integrated land ecosystem-atmosphere processes study	Yan Xiaodong	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Overview of hydrological studies over dry regions in China	Changming Liu	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Overview of dryland recent finding and new development in China	Xi Chen	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Environmental and sustainable development of Mongolian Plateau region: An overview of international collaboration activities and results	Lin Zhen	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Climate change and land use effects on pastoral systems in Eurasia	Dennis Ojima	H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Impact of climate and water resources on land degredation in Tajikistan	Alaxander Finaev	Institute of Water Issues, Hydro-Power Engineering and Ecology
Some approaches to nature ecosystem monitoring by space information implementation on the Balkhash pasture area example	Lyubov Lebed	Kazakh Research Institute for Ecology and Climate
The NASA land-cover/land use change (LCLUC) program: Linkages to NEESPI drylands component	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
Climate change impacts to the river runoff: Regional study for the Central Asia region	Natalya Agaltseva	Research Hydrometeorological Institute
Prolonged dry episodes over Northern Eurasia and Northern America: New tendancies emerging during the last 40 years	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Northern Eurasia earth science partnership	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Recent advances in dynamic vegetation modeling for dry regions	Xubin Zeng	University of Arizona
NERIN-Fire activities (ongoing and future)	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
The NASA LCLUC program and the drylands focus	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
The global water system project (GWSP): Focus on drylands	Alexander Shiklomanov	University Of New Hampshire
The role of remote sensing in irrigation monitoring and management	Mutlu Ozdogan	University of Wisconsin