Frank R. Spellman is assistant professor of Environmental Health at Old Dominion University and the author of more than 50 books, including Biology for Nonbiologists, Ecology for Nonecologists, and In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters.

Revonna M. Bieber works for the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in the field of industrial hygiene. She is coauthor, with Frank Spellman, of Chemical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security.