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Dr. Daniel Botkin is a professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has more than 40 years of experience in ecological research, including research on ecological effects of climate change, use of remote sensing to study ecology from space, and the use of historical information to extend our knowledge of ecosystems past modern times. He is the author of 15 books, the most recent, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, Oxford University Press, was released in September 2012.

James G. Hallett () is a research ecologist and adjunct professor in the Biology Department, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004. His current interests are in monitoring and evaluating the trajectories of terrestrial communities following ecological restoration.

Laura Lawson, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research includes historical and contemporary community open space, with particular focus on community gardens and the changing roles of parks in low-income communities. She is author of City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America and co-author of Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Urban Community Gardens in Seattle (2009)