Dr. Raymundo Dávalos Sotelo has been the Coordinator of the Environment and Sustainability Network at the Instituto de Ecología A.C., Mexico since 2009.  He has been a member of the National Research System 1985-2004 and 2006-present and has served as Head, Division of Natural Resources, Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (1998), Coordinator for research Units, Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (2005), Editor in Chief for Madera y Bosques INECOL (2008).

Dr. Enrique Reyes is an Associate Professor at East Carolina University, USA. His many awards include: Student Scholarship at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)  (1985), Honors distinction in MSc Studies in Marine Sciences at UNAM (1988), Pew Charitable Trust scholarship (1991) for development of a computerized interface for resources management of a Mexican coastal system, UNAM scholarship for PhD studies in Marine Sciences at Louisiana State University (1992), Membership in Scientific Research Society, Sigma X (1992), Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Organization for Tropical Studies at the Instituto de Ecología, Mexico (2002).

Dr. Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia is a senior scientist and full professor at Instituto de Ecología A.C.INECOL (CONACYT), Mexico. His numerous awards include: Membership in the Mexican Academy of Science (1983), Membership in the National Research System level III (1984-1998), NAGA Award (1990) from the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Philippines (now WFI Malaysia) for best scientific paper or book by a developing-country author, 1992 Distinguished Honored Professor in Marine Sciences with the Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research University of South Carolina. Visiting Professor in estuarine ecology at Louisiana State University USA (2004-2005).  William A. Niering Outstanding Educator Award (2007) from the Estuarine Research Federation USA  (now CERF) for excellence in coastal and estuarine education and research. 2010 Thomas W. Rivers Distinguished Professorship in International Affairs East Carolina University USA. 

He has served as Scientific Director of EPOMEX Institute for the Gulf of Mexico University of Campeche, México, Associate Editor for Ocean & Coastal Management Elsevier (1997-2008).

John W. Day, Jr. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast & Environment at Louisiana State University, where he has taught since 1971. He has published extensively on the ecology and management of coastal and wetland ecosystems and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is co-editor (with B. CRUMP, M. Kemp, and A. Yáñez-Arancibia) of Estuarine Ecology 2013, coeditor (with C. Hall) of Ecological Modeling in Theory and Practice, coeditor (with W. Conner) of The Ecology of the Barataria Basin, An Estuarine Profile, coeditor (with A. Yáñez-Arancibia) of the Ecology of Coastal Ecosystems in the Southern Mexico: The Terminos Lagoon Region, coeditor (with A. Yáñez-Arancibia) of Ecosystem Based Management of the Gulf of Mexico in 2013. 

Professor Day received his PhD in marine sciences and environmental sciences from the University of North Carolina in 1971 working with Dr. H.T. Odum.  Since then, he has conducted extensive research on the ecology and management of the Mississippi Delta region and for the last 40 years, he has studied coastal ecosystems in Mexico.  He was a visiting professor in the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National University of Mexico in 1978-1979, at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands during 1986, at the Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Unversité Claude Bernard in Arles France during 1992-93, and in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University in 2000-2001.  He has also worked with the University of Campeche and the Institute of Ecology in Xalapa, Mexico.  From 1992-2004, Professor Day worked in the Mediterranean studying the impacts of climate change on wetlands in Venice Lagoon and in the Po, Rhone and Ebro deltas.  He is presently working on using wetlands as a means of removing nitrogen from the Mississippi River. 

Dr. Day also served as a member of the hypoxia reassessment taskforce and published with Dr. William Mitsch an article in BioScience on approaches to removing nitrogen from the Mississippi River.  He served as chair of the National Technical Review Committee reviewing the restoration program for the Mississippi delta and is currently active in delta restoration.  He served as chair of the Science and Engineering Special Team on restoration of the Mississippi delta (a book on this effort will be published in 2013).  He serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, an international coastal science effort.   He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for study in France and the Estuarine Research Federation Cronin Award for excellence in teaching in coastal sciences.  He has served as major professor for 68 MS and PhD students.