Dan Rosauer is an ecologist with a background in greenhouse accounting, biodiversity modelling, biogeography and environmental policy.

Dr. Irene Martín-Forés, an invasion scientist at the University of Adelaide, studies biological invasions' impact on plant communities from a multiscale approach. Her work at TERN consists on developing research infrastructure, datasets, and tools for scientists. Her extensive international collaborations have led to significant research advancements in invasion ecology.

Chuanji Yong is an analyst who utilises data-driven insights to improve environmental decision-making, with a particular interest in improving how we deal with the uncertainty that surrounds decisions. Costs have and always will be at the centre of environmental decision-making, but until now, there hasn’t been a consistent way to estimate the resources needed to manage key biodiversity threats and incorporate the uncertainty in decision-making. Chuanji has worked with experts in threat management across Australia to define the actions required to abate each biodiversity threat and has then modelled the cost out each action. His current research is incorporating this costing framework into ecosystems to allow the projection of ecological processes, target outcomes, and the corresponding costs. His future research will be evaluating optimal uncertainty levels within these decisions and make recommendations on whether it is beneficial to reduce it. Regional, state and national conservation organisations are set to benefit from a framework designed to help them model biodiversity threat abatement strategies that incorporate management, threats, costs, benefits and outcomes. This will be useful in planning and implementing conservation interventions and avoiding impacts to biodiversity, including stopping the extinction of threatened species.

Dr Frankie Cho is postdoctoral research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology Centre for Environment and Society. His work focuses on bringing environmental economics and decision theory into biodiversity conservation and planning.