Emily O'Gorman is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research is situated within environmental history and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes.

William San Martín is Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Science, Technology, and Governance at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His work examines power disparities across environmental knowledge, technologies, and governance regimes.

Mark Carey is Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. He runs the Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society, collaborating with students and scientists to study environmental history, ice humanities, and climate justice.

Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She studies African socio-environmental history, focusing on human-animal relations.