Congratulations to Dr. Barron Orr, Arizona Space Grant Associate Director, who was chosen as a member of a United Nations panel that will translate the science of desertification into potential policy changes! The U.N. has sought to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world and has called upon 20 different scientists from around the world, of which Dr. Orr is the only U.S. member of the Science-Policy Interface of the U.N.'s Convention to Combat Desertification.