Edward Dlugokencky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory) has led NOAA’s global CH-4 measurement program for nearly 30 years. A preeminent authority on atmospheric chemistry and greenhouse gases, Dr. Dlugokencky is responsible for most of what we know about the contemporary global atmospheric CH4 cycle.

Paul J. Hanson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) is a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist and leader of many innovative, large-scale manipulative climate change experiments with breakthrough discoveries--particularly FACE elevated CO2 studies and SPRUCE (Spruce & Peatland Responses Under Climatic & Environmental Change).

Kate Lajtha (Oregon State University) is a biogeochemist widely known for her work on stable isotopes in ecology, long-term soil C and N cycling studies, and leadership-- especially to the B-section! Dr. Lajtha is leader of the ‘DIRT’ experiments and has been Editor-in-Chief of Biogeochemistry for >15 years.

Bill McDowell (University of New Hampshire) is a watershed biogeochemist focused on production and transport of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), N fluxes in groundwater, effect of hurricanes on stream chemistry, and integrating terrestrial-aquatic interfaces in the global Earth system, particularly at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, in New Hampshire, and the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Isabel Patricia Montañez (University of California, Davis) is a sedimentary geologist/geochemist, with breakthroughs in paleoclimatology that span the geological timescale, carbonate stratigraphy and diagenesis, low-temperature marine isotope geochemistry, terrestrial geochemistry and paleoclimate.

Josep Penuelas (Spanish National Council of Scientific Research) is recognized for his innovative research on global change ecology, remote sensing and atmosphere-biosphere interactions has had enormous impact. One of the most cited biogeoscientists and ecologists in the world, and a treasured collaborator to many!

Hanqin Tian (Auburn University) is a leading expert on atmospheric & terrestrial budgets of biogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and how they're affected by human activity. One of the first Earth System modelers to integrate GHGs into one framework, w/ a process-based N cycle, remote sensing & non-linear interactions.