Sudhir Raj Shrestha currently works at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) as Solution Engineer Researcher supporting geospatial science applications in NASA, JPL, NOAA, and USDA ARS and industry partners like Microsoft and Amazon. He is a scientific data enthusiast with a keen interest in making data easily Discoverable and Interoperable. His research focuses on Geographic Information Science, Geoscience, Agricultural Science and Soil Science. His interests and expertise fall in development and implementation of new and innovative geospatial methods and techniques.

Rebecca Koskela has 25 years of experience in scientific computing in industry, research labs and universities. For the past 9 years she has served as Executive Director of DataONE, a virtual organization with members located throughout the US and Europe. As Executive Director, she is the liaison between DataONE and many other international research data infrastructure and research projects, such as COOPEUS and ENVRIPlus. In addition to this, she has contributed to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) since its inception, co-leading three of the metadata groups.

Denise Hills is a geoscientist at the Geological Survey of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was trained as a marine geophysicist and is currently Director of the Energy Investigations program at the Survey. Her research, often federally funded, focuses on energy resource assessment. This includes traditional and unconventional hydrocarbon assessment, non-hydrocarbon geologic energy sources, and geologic carbon sequestration.

Dr. Karl Benedict has worked since 1986 in parallel tracks of information management, geospatial information technology and archaeology. Within the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences he serves as an Associate Professor; as the Director of the Research Data Services Program, Director of IT Services, and as subject liaison for the departments of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Mike Daniels is a Research Associate at Colorado State University and a Project Manager in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab (MMM) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). As part of its mission, NCAR enables science field experiments by developing and supporting lower atmosphere observing facilities such as aircraft, radars, lidars, profilers, sounding systems and surface flux stations for university research projects.