Steering Committee
Michael F. Allen, Professor of Plant Pathology
William I. Boarman, Research Wildlife Biologist
Mark Chappell, Professor of Biology
Norman Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics & Geneticist, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Daphne Fairbairn, Professor of Biology
Exequiel Ezcurra, Director, Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias, San Diego Natural History Museum
Scott L. Fedick, Professor of Anthropology
Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Professor Emeritus of Botany and Plant Sciences
Michael Hamilton, Director, James Reserve
Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, Professor of Biology and Director of the Department of Management and Conservation of Natural Resources (PROTROPICO), Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY)
William A Jury, Professor of Soil Physics
Al Muth, Director of UC Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
Len Nunney, Professor of Biology
Rick Redak, Professor of Entomology, Streeing Committee Chair
John Rotenberry, Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural Reserve System
Oliver Ryder, Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES), San Diego Zoo
Tom Scott, Adjunct Professor/Natural Resources Specialist of Earth Sciences
Linda Walling, Associate Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences,
