Dan Bisaccio
Director of Science Education 
HabitatNet and Education, Brown University

Caroline Bledsoe
Professor
UC Davis, Land Air Water Resources (LAWR)

Andrzej Bytnerowicz
Ecologist
US Forest Service, San Bernardino Fire Lab

Scott Collins
Professor
Long Term Ecological Reserve-Sevilleta, University of New Mexico

Maria Luz Cruz-Torres
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Arizona State University

Louise Egerton-Warburton
Soil Ecologist Manager, Native Habitats
Chicago Botanic Gardens

Eddie Ellis
Landscape Ecologist and Geographical Information Systems Research Scientist
CITRO-Universidad Veracruzana

Mark Fenn
Plant Pathologist
US Forest Service, San Bernardino Fire Lab Research

Andy Gillespie
Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species, ZSSD

Juan Jiménez-Osornio
Head of the Department of Management and Conservation of Tropical Natural Resources, Coordinator of the 
Science Management and Conservation of Tropical 
Natural Resources PROTROPICO, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Mexico)

William A. Jury
Dist. Prof. of Soil Physics
Environmental Sciences

Lucinda McDade
Director of Research, Chair of the Botany Department & Professor of Botany
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Chris McDonald
Desert Natural Resources Advisor
Southeastern California
UC Cooperative Extension

Tom Meixner
Associate Professor, Hydrochemistry
Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona

Larry. L Norris
Adjunct Professor
National Park Service, Desert Southwest CESU, University of Arizona, Tucson

Walt Oechel
Professor of Biology 
Biology, San Diego State University

Nisao Ogata
Director, Programa Arboles Tropicales 
CITRO, Universidad Veracruzana

Robert Parmenter
Museum Research Associate
Long Term Ecological Reserve-Sevilleta, University of New Mexico

Linda Prince
Research Scientist, Research Assistant Professor of Botany
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

José Ignacio Querejeta
Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (Spain)

Matthias Rillig
Director & Professor, Plant and Mycorrhizal Ecology Lab
Free University of Berlin (Germany)

Emmanuel Rincón
Main PhD Supervisor
Centro de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Jaime Rotenberg
University of Connecticut

Oliver Ryder
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species, ZSSD

Jim Sullivan
GIS Program Director
Coachella Valley Association of Governments

Monica Swartz
Staff Biologist
Coachella Valley Water District

Mike Taggart
Affiliate - Research Associate
RhizoSystems, LLC

Tracy Tennant
Botanist
US Forest Service, San Bernardino National Forest

Kathleen Treseder
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences, UC Irvine

Rodrigo Vargas
Post-Doctoral Researcher
UC Berkeley

Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez
Chair and Professor
Chicana/Chicano Studies, Arizona State University

Tom Zink
Adjunct Professor
Biology, San Diego State University