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| Name | Activity | Year |
| Florian Altermatt | President of the Swiss Biodiversity Forum, SCNAT. | 2021 |
| Florian Altermatt | Served on the Foundation Board of InfoFauna/CSCF. | 2021 |
| Cornelia Krug | Served as a resource person on the IPBES Taskforce on Knowledge and Data. | 2021 |
| Maria J. Santos | Was an observer at the COP26 (the UN Climate Change Conference). | 2021 |
| Maria J. Santos | Presented at the UNECE Regional Forum on ‘Sustainable Development Roundtable: Shaping Resilient Societies Towards a Sustainable Future. | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Swiss delegate in the Council of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Member of the EU-PolarNet2 Policy Advisory Board. | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Delegate in the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna group of the Arctic Council. | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Scientific director of the Swiss Polar Institute. | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Delegate in the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna group of the Arctic Council. | 2021 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | External advisory committee of the NSF Biology Integration Institute on Spectral Biology for the Study of Biodiversity and Global Change. | 2021 |
| Michael E. Schaepman | Invited keynote talk for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). /td> | 2021 |
| Michael E. Schaepman | Moderated the virtual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: ‘Shaping Resilient Societies: Can One Succeed?’ based in New York. | 2021 |
| Debra Zuppinger-Dingley | Served on the Scientific Committee for the Society for Conservation Biology conference, the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) 2021 . | 2021 |
| Florian Altermatt | President of the Swiss Biodiversity Forum, SCNAT, which released a White Paper (link to PDF) on Priority Themes for Swiss Sustainability Research in 2020. Florian Altermatt led the creation of a Swiss Biodiversity Forum factsheet on N/P effects on biodiversity which was entered into political discussions. | 2020 |
| Norman Backhaus | Elected as representative of SCNAT to the Federal National Park Commission. The newly formed SCNAT forum FOLAP (Forum Landscape, Alps and Parks), to which the FOK-SNP is affiliated, started to compile core topics for research on landscapes. | 2020 |
| Sarah Mayor | Contributed to the IPCC report as a reviewer. | 2020 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Elected as a member of the External Advisory Committee of the Spectral Biology for the Study of Biodiversity and Global Change. | 2020 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Elected as chair of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of the Swiss Polar Institute. | 2020 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Scientific member of its Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP). | 2020 |
| Sofia van Morsel | Contributed to the IPCC report as a reviewer. | 2020 |
| Debra Zuppinger-Dingley | Contributed to a chapter of the IPBES first order draft of the Invasive Alien Species assessment as a reviewer. | 2020 |
| Debra Zuppinger-Dingley | Selected to serve on the Scientific Committee for the ICCB 2021. | 2020 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Delegated by the Swiss Foreign Ministry to represent Switzerland at the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) board meeting. | 2019 |
| Maria J. Santos | Invited to participate on the expert panel at the Foraus Policy Kitchen on biodiversity. | 2019 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Fostered Arctic biodiversity science and policies at national and international level. As a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of the Swiss Polar Institute, she led the development of the biodiversity science pillar, published in the new science plan. | 2019 |
| Debra Zuppinger-Dingley | Represented and presented the URPP GCB at the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB). | 2019 |
| Florian Altermatt | Elected as president of the Swiss Biodiversity Forum (SCNAT), the scientific competence center for biodiversity in Switzerland. | 2019 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Motivated by the EDA and CAFF to represent Switzerland (with it’s new observer status) in the Arctic’s Council biodiversity working group, CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna). CAFF's mandate is to address the conservation of Arctic biodiversity, and to communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic, helping to promote practices which ensure the sustainability of the Arctic’s living resources. | 2018 |
| Cornelia Krug | Acted as the resource person on the IPBES task force for data and knowledge. | 2018 |
| Florian Altermat | Elected vice-president of the Forum Biodiversität Schweiz, Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), which supports biodiversity research and facilitates the co-operation of scientists and policy-makers in the administration department, in politics, economy and society. | 2017 |
| Claudia Röösli, Rogier De Jong | GlobDiversity was affiliated to the URPP GCB. GlobDiversity is the first large-scale project explicitly designed to develop and engineer RS-enabled EBVs. This project was initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA) supports the efforts of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON). | 2017 |
| Sara Petchey, Morana Mihaljević | The SNSF Agrora funded URPP GCB outreach project, Biodiversity Means Life, is launched. The goals of the project are to deepen the awareness of the Swiss general public on the subjects of biodiversity, global change, and ecosystem services and to inspire a willingness to act on behalf of conservation of biodiversity. | 2017 |
| URPP GCB | The University of Zurich (UZH) hosts the International Project Office of bioDISCOVERY which supports and coordinates global research projects monitoring, assessing, and better understanding and predicting biodiversity change. | 2017 |
| Maria Alejandra Parreño, Debra Zuppinger-Dingley | Represented and presented the URPP GCB at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Congress. | 2016 |
| Sara Petchey, Michael Schaepman | SNSF Agora funding grant aimed at public outreach of URPP GCB research. | 2016 |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Elected to the Swiss Committee on Polar and High altitude research. The Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude research (a committee of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences) provides the legal body to represent Switzerland in international committees on polar and high altitude research. This was especially important as Switzerland submitted its application to become a permanent observer of the Arctic Council (with one of the working groups on conservation of arctic flora and fauna (CAFF). | 2015 |
| URPP GCB and EU BON | Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed. The main goal of the EU BON project is to build a substantial European contribution to the “Group on Earth Observations – Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)”. | 2014 |
| Pascal Niklaus, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Michael Schaepman | Contributed to the assessment of the use and needs of remote sensing for biodiversity monitoring, and assessed Swiss biodiversity observation monitoring. | 2014 |
| URPP GCB Ecosystem Services Working Group (Katherine Horgan, Owen Petchey, Norman Backhaus, Ivan Nikitin, Daniela Braun, Stanislav Ksenofontov, Veruska Muccione) | Published an overview of the ecosystem services concept in the journal ‘Hotspot’ of the Swiss Biodiversity Forum. | 2014 |
| Michael Schaepman | Invitation to present an opening keynote during the 10th Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO-X) and the Ministerial Summit in Geneva. Ten URPP GCB young researchers participated in the summit. | 2014 |
| Veruska Muccione | Participated in the 2nd IPBES Pan-European Stakeholder Consultation and followed up discussions on the IPBES scoping document of the regional assessments and the stakeholder engagement implementation plan. | 2014 |
| Michael Schaepman | Selected as a member of the Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON) working group 4, and the FutureEarth Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA). | 2014 |
| Owen Petchey | Provided a policy contribution to the E-Consultation on Nature-Based Solutions, Improved Risk Mangement and Resilience. | 2014 |
| Michael Schaepman | Member of ESA Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC) and asked to lead a chapter in the new ESA science strategy on the land challenges. | 2014 |
