Title	Presenter	Institution
Overview of dryland recent finding and new development in China	Xi Chen	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Overview of hydrological studies over dry regions in China	Changming Liu	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Prolonged dry episodes over Northern Eurasia and Northern America: New tendancies emerging during the last 40 years	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Recent advances in dynamic vegetation modeling for dry regions	Xubin Zeng	University of Arizona
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 global water system project (GWSP): Focus on drylands	Alexander Shiklomanov	University Of New Hampshire
The NASA land-cover/land use change (LCLUC) program: Linkages to NEESPI drylands component	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
The NASA LCLUC program and the drylands focus	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
The role of remote sensing in irrigation monitoring and management	Mutlu Ozdogan	University of Wisconsin