Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Hector Manuel Arias Rojo is vision and planning officer for the World Wildlife Fund Gulf of California Program.

Scott Bassett is post-doctoral fellow at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

Michael Flaxman is lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Tomas Goode is consulting groundwater hydrologist with HydroSystems Inc., in Tempe, Arizona.

Thomas Maddock III is professor of hydrology and water resources at the University of Arizona and co-director of the Research Laboratory for Riparian Studies.

David Mouat is associate research professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

Richard Peiser is the Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Allan Shearer is research fellow at Harvard University.