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• Julian Alston
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Invasive Species | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• Thomas D. Beamish
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Environmental Justice | Economics
• Chris Benner
  Land Use | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Landscape Architecture, Urban Development | Policy, Economics | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | Policy, Governance | Economics | Business, Management
• Trish Berger
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Toxicology | Stressors on Animals | Physiology and Nutrition | Effects on Agriculture | Food, Agriculture | Business, Management
• Nicole Biggart
  Effective Solutions | Business, Management
• Kent Bradford
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Population Genetics | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Stressors on Plants | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Thomas A. Cahill
  Land Use | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Transportation | Atmospheric Science | The Climate Past | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | Air Quality | Policy, Governance
• Chris Calvert
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Physiology and Nutrition | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Colin Carter
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Invasive Species | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Economics | Business, Management
• Richard C. Dorf
  Land Use | Effective Solutions | Landscape Architecture, Urban Development | Business, Management
• Valerie Eviner
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Invasive Species | Habitat Restoration | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach | Business, Management
• Hossein Farzin
  Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Policy, Economics | Environmental Justice | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Erica Fleishman
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Wildlands | Population, Community Ecology | Wildlife | Invasive Species | Stressors on Plants | Stressors on Animals | Land Use Planning | Habitat Restoration | Geospatial Analysis | Deltas and Estuaries | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Governance | Business, Management
• Richard Frank
  Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Rivers | Lakes | Deltas and Estuaries | Water Policy | Environmental Justice | Policy, Governance
• Ryan E. Galt
  Effective Solutions | Policy, Governance
• Rachael Goodhue
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Invasive Species | Water Policy | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Joyce Gutstein
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | Arts & Literature | Education and Outreach
• Andrew B. Hargadon
  Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Technology and Energy Efficiency | Business, Management | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• Richard Howitt
  Effective Solutions | Economics
• Lovell (Tu) Jarvis
  Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Christopher R. Knittel
  Land Use | Effective Solutions | Transportation | Economics
• Dietmar Kültz
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Toxicology | Stressors on Animals | Physiology and Nutrition | Deltas and Estuaries | Coasts and Oceans | Aquatic Health, Toxicology | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Douglas M. Larson
  Effective Solutions | Economics
• Albert Lin
  Effective Solutions | Policy, Governance
• C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Air Quality | Economics
• Jenella Loye
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Plants | Invasive Species | Disease | History, Culture | Education and Outreach | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• Mark Lubell
  Water & Watersheds | Effective Solutions | Water Policy | Policy, Governance
• Jay R. Lund
  Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Landscape Architecture, Urban Development | Transportation | Rivers | Deltas and Estuaries | Natural Hazards | Water Policy | Effects on Human Populations, Behavior | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Human, Community Health | History, Culture | Policy, Governance | Economics | Business, Management
• Andrew J Marshall
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Plants | Wildlife | Stressors on Animals | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Mary Brooke McEachern
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Population Genetics | Wildlands | Population, Community Ecology | Wildlife | Stressors on Animals | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• WScott McLean
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Wildlife | Rivers | Water Policy | Environmental Justice | Arts & Literature | Environmental Ethics | Education and Outreach
• Neil McRoberts
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Invasive Species | Disease | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Pierre Merel
  Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Deanne Meyer
  Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Water Policy | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Air Quality | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Beth Rose Middleton
  Land Use | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | History, Culture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach | Business, Management | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• A. Keith Miles
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Toxicology | Coasts and Oceans | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Roberta L Millstein
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Environmental Justice | Arts & Literature | Environmental Ethics | Policy, Governance
• Jeff Mitchell
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Stressors on Plants | Physiology and Nutrition | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Air Quality | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Jeffrey F. Mount
  Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Habitat Restoration | Rivers | Deltas and Estuaries | Natural Hazards | Water Policy | Effects on Water Resources | Policy, Governance
• Malcolm North
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Wildlands | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Wildlife | Stressors on Plants | Habitat Restoration | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Governance
• Eliska Rejmankova
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Disease | Soil Microbes | Habitat Restoration | Lakes | Effects on Water Resources | Education and Outreach
• Peter J. Richerson
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Plants | Lakes | Effects on Human Populations, Behavior | The Climate Past | Food, Agriculture | History, Culture
• James Sanchirico
  Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Coasts and Oceans | Policy, Economics | Policy, Governance | Economics
• Suzana M Sawyer
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Population, Community Ecology | Land Use Planning | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | Policy, Governance
• Geoffrey Schladow
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Invasive Species | Rivers | Lakes | Deltas and Estuaries | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Climate Modeling, Forecasting | Effects on Water Resources | Education and Outreach
• Kate M. Scow
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Soil Microbes | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Johan Six
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Soil Microbes | Rivers | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Food, Agriculture | Economics | Education and Outreach
• Richard Snyder
  Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Atmospheric Science | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Daniel Sperling
  Land Use | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Transportation | Technology and Energy Efficiency | Policy, Governance
• Mike Springborn
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Invasive Species | Policy, Economics | Economics
• Lisa Thompson
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Invasive Species | Habitat Restoration | Rivers | Lakes | Climate Modeling, Forecasting | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Thomas P. Tomich
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics | Education and Outreach
• Joshua Viers
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Wildlands | Plants | Wildlife | Invasive Species | Disease | Land Use Planning | Habitat Restoration | Geospatial Analysis | Rivers | Lakes | Water Policy | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Stephen A. Vosti
  Effective Solutions | Economics
• Stephen M. Wheeler
  Land Use | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Landscape Architecture, Urban Development | Transportation | Policy, Economics | Human, Community Health | Arts & Literature | Policy, Governance
• James E. Wilen
  Effective Solutions | Economics
• Narine Yegiyan
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Human, Community Health | Education and Outreach
• Michael Ziser
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Environmental Justice | Food, Agriculture | Arts & Literature | Education and Outreach