Jerry Jenkins. Jerry has been involved with Wildlife Conservation Society work in the Adirondacks since the genesis of the program, and has brought his interest and expertise in forest ecology to a variety of discussions and projects. He is a botanist and consultant with wide-ranging experience for a number of regional organizations, including performing ecological assessments for the Adirondack Nature Conservancy. Jerry is also director of Bard College's White Creek Field School.

Mary Leou. Mary is the Director of the Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education at NYU, and Acting Director of the Environmental Conservation Education Program in the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences. She has over 20 years of experience in urban environmental education. She has received numerous grants to develop school programs, teacher education initiatives, and environmental curricula. She is the former Chair of the Environmental Education Advisory Council and serves on numerous boards in the metropolitan area. She currently teaches in the Department of Teaching and Learning and the Program for Environmental Conservation Education. Mary's research interests include teacher development (pre-service and inservice), urban environmental education, school reform and experiential learning.

Cindy Hmelo-Silver. Cindy is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University. She is interested in understanding how people learn through solving complex problems and developing learning environments that support learning through problem-solving. Her current research involves two lines of research. In the Videocases Online Project: Cognitive Studies of Preservice Teachers project, Cindy collaborates with Sharon Derry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop video cases and activity structures based on learning sciences theories and to study how the cases and activities affect learning. She has also received an NSF Early CAREER award for the project Representational Tools to Support Learning about Complex Biological Systems. In this project she examined how novices and experts come to understand complex systems such as the human respiratory system and aquarium ecosystems. She uses structure-behavior-function theory to develop hypermedia and simulation construction tools that support learning about such systems.