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Linggong Kong, Auburn University

Meagen Rosenthal, University of Mississippi and Natalie Minton, University of Mississippi

Robert Brehm, University of Virginia and Matt Motta, Boston University

Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California

Allison Anna Tait, University of Richmond

Yasir Kuoti, Boston University

Christine Conageski, University of Colorado Anschutz

Nazita Lajevardi, University of Michigan; Kåre Vernby, Stockholm University, and Moa Mårtensson, Uppsala University

Dara Delgado, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, University of Denver

SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia

Alison Dagnes, Shippensburg University

Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Pep Canadell, CSIRO

Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Taneshka Kruger, University of Pretoria and Tiaan de Jager, University of Pretoria

Jeffrey Hebert, University of Colorado Anschutz

Andrew Wolf, University of Virginia

Adam Annaccone, University of Texas at Arlington

Eliza Grames, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Chris Elphick, University of Connecticut, and Rob Cooke, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Woon Ju Park, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; María G. Leija, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Saba Khan Vlach, University of Iowa

Robin E. Best, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Vivek Astvansh, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Preetinder Kaur, University of Guelph, and Pushpinder Gill, Toronto Metropolitan University

Suzanne Peck, Rochester Institute of Technology