Dr. Inci Güneralp, Professor of Geography at Texas A&M, received the 2019 Association of Former Students College Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. A geomorphologist and hydrologist, her research focuses on sustainable flood mitigation and surface water management in lowland landscapes. With over 15 years of experience, she uses field-based approaches, process modeling, and remote sensing. She leads an NSF-funded project on enhancing flood resilience in Texas with nature-based solutions and is a fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service. 

Dr. Chrissy Wiederwohl, Associate Department Head and Instructional Professor of Oceanography at Texas A&M received the 2024 Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, the 2022 Provost Academic Professional Track Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Award. She leads two annual five-day at-sea learning opportunities for students in the Gulf. Funded by the EPA, she brings place-based learning to underserved students in coastal south Texas. An NSF grant supports her work in creating a virtual reality "at-sea" experience to make ocean education accessible to communities with socioeconomic or geographic barriers. 

Dr. Clare Palmer is the Professor of Philosophy and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M. Her research focuses on environmental and animal ethics, and the ethics of emerging technologies. She has authored or co-authored five books, including Animal Ethics in Context and Wildlife Ethics. A former President of the International Society of Environmental Ethics, she teaches Environmental Ethics and Contemporary Moral Issues. She also co-owns a ranch in Robertson County, Texas, dedicated to wildlife conservation.

Dr. Michelle Annette Meyer is the Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and an Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Department at Texas A&M. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Colorado State University and a BA from Murray State University. Her research focuses on disaster recovery and mitigation, environmental and community sustainability, and the intersection of environmental conditions with social vulnerability. She examines how inequality is affected by disasters and environmental settings through the lenses of social capital and collective efficacy. Her work includes extensive research on volunteer organizations, volunteerism, and philanthropy in disaster contexts.

Dr. Glen Miller is an Instructional Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Texas. His teaching and research help people to understand and navigate their social, technological, and ecological environments. His current research focuses on engineering ethics, cyberethics, and the ethics of AI. His most recent book is Thinking Through Science and Technology: Philosophy, Religion and Politics in an Engineered World (2023, co-edited, with Helena Mateus Jerónimo and Qin Zhu).  

Dr. Ishara Casellas Connors is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Service and Administration at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M. Her research focuses on equity in higher education, particularly state and institutional policies affecting minority-serving institutions and efforts to support diversity and equity. She also examines the experiences of distinct populations, such as displaced learners and Afro-Latinx students, to understand how policies impact student success. Dr. Casellas Connors holds a PhD in Higher Education from Boston College and an MA from Columbia University.

Dr. Shawna Ross is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M, specializing in British modernist literature, Victorian studies, ecocriticism, and the digital humanities. Her book Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene explores the Brontë family's engagement with the Anthropocene. She has co-authored several works, including Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom, Humans at Work in the Digital Age, and Reading Modernism with Machines. She is currently working on Modernism 2.0: Literary Practices of Information, 1991-2004, a book investigating Web 1.0 remediations of modernist literature. 

Dr. Jamie Steichen is an instructional associate professor in marine biology in the College of Science and Maritime Studies at Texas A&M. She earned her Ph.D. in oceanography and a bachelor’s degree in marine science, both from A&M. In 2023, she received the TAMUG Vice President Meritorious Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching. Steichen emphasizes high-impact learning in her first-year courses, engaging students through active, hands-on experiences in both the classroom and field. She currently teaches Succeeding in Science, Marine Ecology, Tropical Marine Botany (in Puerto Rico), and Estuarine Ecology.