Andrew J. Weaver is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, BC. In 2002 he received a Killam Research Fellowship, a CIAR Young Explorers award as one of the top twenty scientists in Canada under the age of forty, and was selected as one of the twenty-five power thinkers in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine. In 2003 he was selected as one of the top five Canadian scientists by Time
2000 Linda A. Revilla is Education Health Specialist at the Department of Veteran's Affairs' Pacific Center for PTSD, and a lecturer in the University of Hawaii Ethnic Studies Department, both in Honolulu, Hawaii. She specializes in working with children and families. She is a Roman Catholic layperson.