Grant S. McCall is Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist at the Center for Human-Environmental Research (CHER) and Associate Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at Tulane University. McCall has been conducting anthropological research in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, since 2017 and has worked previously in the Namib and Kalahari Deserts, Namibia. McCall is author or editor of seven books, and more than 30 journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Thong Tran is an Honorary Lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society, College of Science, The Australian National University and a Research Fellow at Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University, Vietnam. His research agenda concerns environment-development dynamics in mainland Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on (transboundary) environmental governance, agrarian transformation, livelihood resilience, climate change adaptation, knowledge governance, social learning, environmental justice, and institutional change. While at Fulbright University Vietnam, he is involved in the Natural Capital Management (NCM) project, looking into transboundary/in-situ environmental implications for the sustainable governance of natural resources and livelihood resilience of rural populations in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Tran also serves as an Associate Editor for Society and Natural Resources and he is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Flood Risk Management and the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/visiting/dr-thong-tran.

Dr. Doru Bănăduc is an Associate Professor teaching in the field of ecology and environment protection and biology at the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania. He conducts research in fundamental and applied ichthyology, aquatic systems assessment, ecologic monitoring and management, etc.

Dr. Diego Figueroa is an assistant professor in the School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research focuses on how oceanographic processes, anthropogenic effects and climate change impact the biodiversity and connectivity of marine habitats. The near-shore region of the South Texas Gulf Coast is one of the least-studied areas in the entire Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Diego Figueroa’s work focuses on establishing a baseline of oceanographic and biological characteristics of this region to serve as a foundation for long-term oceanographic monitoring. His research aims to assess the effects of increased stress on this coastal environment from rising human use and climate change and to provide valuable information for policymakers and managers to mitigate negative impacts and promote the sustainable use of resources in the Gulf of Mexico.

Devashish Kar is a Professor in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics at Assam University in Silchar, India. In the course of 40 Years of teaching and research, Kar is a pioneer in India in the fields of wetland ecology, fishery science, and aquaculture. Kar has explored and studied the habitats, fish biodiversity, changes through time, and management/conservation of about 273 wetlands and 52 rivers in North-East India covering the provinces of Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim; reporting the occurrence of about 270 fish species, many of them for the first time.

Dr. Nelson Ferreira Fontoura is professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Brazil) where he works since 1989. From 2018 is Director of the Institute for the Environment of PUCRS, in charge of the Pró-Mata Conservation Unit, with 2300 hectares of Atlantic Forest. Current research projects deal with fishery biology and modeling patterns of habitat distribution of Brazilian fish. Scientific production concerns 65 scientific papers covering several aspects of the life cycle for more than 30 Neotropical species.

Anthony Akpan is the Founder/President of Pan African Vision for the Environment (PAVE) in Nigeria. He is a human development and public policy specialist with a B.Sc in Applied Chemistry from the University of Uyo, Nigeria, and a Post Graduate Studies Diploma in Water Management with specialization in Water Services Management from UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands. Akpan has over 20 years of sector experience in human ecology and sustainable development issues, spanning NGO management, government, civil society, private sector, and International development agencies relations.

Russell D. Greaves is the Director of the Office of Contract Archaeology at the University of New Mexico. His archaeological background focuses on hunter-gatherer adaptations to different and changing environments, primarily in the American west. He has performed long-term ethnographic fieldwork with savanna Pumé hunter-gatherers in Venezuela and with Maya agriculturalists in the Yucatan peninsula. He also has worked with Native American groups in the American Southwest. Russell is a Research Associate with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, a Consulting Scholar with the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah.

Robert Hitchcock is an anthropologist working with the Kalahari Peoples Fund (KPF). He is also a an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations at Michigan State University and an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He has worked on environmental, land, development, human rights, and resettlement assessment issues in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Somalia, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and other parts of southern and eastern Africa as well as the US, Canada, Guatemala, and Peru for the past 40 years. His most recent book is The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa (with Megan Biesele, Berghahn Books, 2013).

Meghan Kirkwood is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis where she serves as area head of Photography. She earned a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography before completing her M.F.A. in Studio Art at Tulane University and PhD at the University of Florida. Kirkwood’s photography has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Thailand, Mexico and South Africa. Her photographic research looks at the ways in which landscape imagery can inform and advance public conversations around land use, infrastructure, and planning.

Sherman Horn received a B.A. in Anthropology from The Ohio State University in 2003, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Tulane University in 2008 and 2015. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in six countries on three continents and has concentrated on Mesoamerican for the last 15 years. Horn specializes in using geographic information systems (GIS) software to explore, analyze, and integrate large and disparate archaeological datasets. He is particularly interested in using GIS and artifact sourcing studies to reconstruct ancient interaction and exchange networks, which he sees as important drivers of social change among early agricultural communities.