Jingchen (Monika) Hu is Associate Professor at Vassar College.

Jim Albert is Emeritus Professor at Bowling Green State University.

Martin Liermann has worked at the National Marine Fisheries in Seattle as a quantitative ecologist since 1997 and is affiliate faculty in the University of Washington’s Statistics department. He received a BA in mathematics, and an MS in mathematics and environmental sciences at Humboldt State University (Arcata California) in 1989 and 1991. He completed his Ph.D. in quantitative ecology and resource management at the University of Washington (Seattle Washington) in 1999.