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Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Thomas Adam, University of Arkansas

Ammcise Apply, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Eric Palkovacs, University of California, Santa Cruz

Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph, University of Connecticut

John A. Tures, LaGrange College

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

Carla Vecchiola, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Mary Ogborn, Penn State

Kevin J. Bennett, University of South Carolina

Sharon Jean-Philippe, University of Tennessee

Sean Murphy, Shenandoah University

Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago

Kimberly Van Meter, Penn State and Nandita Basu, University of Waterloo

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and Alexis Montambault-Trudelle, Université Laval

Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame

Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Achim Zeileis, University of Innsbruck

Andrés Henao, University of Colorado Anschutz

Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Carolyn Zola, California State University, East Bay

Steven K. Green, Willamette University

David Mislin, Temple University

Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University of California, Merced

Dillon Amaya, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Weizhi Deng, University of Iowa; Jun Wang, University of Iowa, and Meng Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ivis García, Texas A&M University

Rachel Rebouché, The University of Texas at Austin

John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University

Lisa Meierotto, Boise State University; Matthew May, Boise State University, and Rebecca Som Castellano, Boise State University

Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky

Shadi Rouhshahbaz, The University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle

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James Trapani, Western Sydney University

Sally Ibrahim, Case Western Reserve University

Alex Krasnok, Florida International University

Guy German, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University and Ana K. Spalding, Smithsonian Institution

Nan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ross Channing Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Michael Helbing, Penn State

Gretchen Chapman, Carnegie Mellon University

Kelley Cours Anderson, College of Charleston; Ashley Hass, University of Portland, and Breanne A. Mertz, University of Tampa

Jeremy David Engels, Penn State

Julie Dawson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kiki Hubbard, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Paulina Jenney, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Keisha M. Wint, Binghamton University, State University of New York