1. Charles J. Vörösmarty is a professor of civil engineering at the City College of New York and founding director of the CUNY Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative. He studies global change, with an emphasis on water and serves as co-chair of the Global Water System Project of the Earth System Science Partnership.
2. James P. M. Syvitski is an oceanographer and geologist and is executive director of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
3. John Day is professor emeritus in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University.
4. Alex de Sherbinin is a senior research associate at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, an environmental data and analysis center within the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
5. Liviu Giosan is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
6. Chris Paola is professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and former director of the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, an NSF Science and Technology Center devoted to creating and communicating insight about the processes that shape the surface of Earth.