Professor Andreas Lang
Andreas Lang is Chair of Physical Geography and Head of the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK. His recent research focuses on: application of optical dating to sediments from fluvial and colluvial environments, reconstructing human impact on geomorphic systems; longer term changes in sediment flux and catchment transmission and modelling fluvial systems.

Professor Michael Crozier
Michael Crozier has a personal chair in Geomorphology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a ministerial appointment to the New Zealand Conservation Authority that has statutory responsibilities for national parks and regional conservation management strategies. While much of his research has been on the role of climate in landslide initiation, recent work has involved, earthquake-triggered landslides, response of slopes to deforestation, runout behaviour of landslides, scarp evolution, natural hazard risk evolution, and the relationship between subsurface erosion, slope hydrology and landslides.

Professor Des Walling
Des Walling is a Hydrologist with particular interests in the field of erosion and sediment yields and catchment sediment budgets. He is Reardon Smith Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Des is heavily involved in national and international scientific activities. He is currently President of the World Association for Sediment and Erosion Research, past President of the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) and the International Association of Sediment Water Sciences (IASWS) and President of the World Association for Sediment and Erosion Research (WASER) and Honorary President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.

Dr. James P.M. Syvitski
James Syvitski is Executive Director of CSDMS, a research group of the University of Colorado, specializing in building models for global change and environmental science, earth surface processes and extreme environments. His fields of expertise are in earth system science, in the fields of sedimentology, oceanography, mathematics, geophysics, geochemistry, landscape evolution and sediment transport modelling. James has worked at a variety of levels in world scientific bodies (IUGS, IGBP, INQUA, and IAS). He enjoys simplifying science for others and believes in educating the public on science issues.

Dr. Murray Hicks
Murray Hicks researches and consults on river and coastal sedimentation and geomorphic processes. Murray works for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand. His current research focuses on numerical morphodynamic modelling of gravel-bed rivers and gravel coastlines, with application to predicting the downstream effects of dams, diversions, flood-harvesting, irrigation water abstractions and climate change on river morphology and substrate and on coastal erosion.