Dr. Tundi Agardy is an internationally renowned expert in marine conservation, with extensive field and policy experience in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, North America and the Pacific. She currently heads Sound Seas, an independent policy group based in the Washington, DC area. Formerly the Senior Director for the global Marine Program at Conservation International and a Senior Scientist for the World Wildlife Fund, she assisted local NGOs, government agencies, and multilateral organizations in conservation planning, project implementation, and program evaluation.

Dr. Phil Dustan is a Professor of Biology at the College of Charleston and one of the world's leading authorities on coral reef health and vitality. Science Advisor for The Cousteau Society, Dr. Dustan was the first to use satellite imagery to map coral reefs off the Florida coast. He is cooperating with PCRF both on the analysis of underwater data and on the development of satellite technology to map reefs from space.

Robert Goeke is Chief Engineer at the the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he oversees the engineering staff and technical status of all the Center�s projects. He is currently Project Engineer for VOILA, an International Space Station experiment in life sciences and SPIDR, a Boston University Small Explorers mission in astrophysics. He has facilitated PCRF's pioneering project to map and monitor coral reefs from space.

Les Kaufman is a professor Boston University and the Senior PI of a global scientific research effort on marine management area science (the MMAS Program) in collaboration with Conservation International. Les' research focuses on nearshore ecosystems, the dynamics of coral reef regeneration and the impact that human activity has on the underlying processes that generate and maintain aquatic diversity.