Advisory Committee Profiles
Guido Van der Werf
Professor Guido van der Werf is a University Research Chair at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has developed the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California (Irvine) and NASA. This database aims to estimate emissions from fires at continental and global scales using satellite data. His group explores the impact fires have on climate and air quality, and he is interested in better understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of fires in general, and of savanna fires in particular.