David Hyrenbach, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Marine Science 2007 Hawaii Pacific University
Exequiel Ezcurra, Ph.D. Professor, Director 2006 University of California at Riverside and the Institute for Mexico and the United States
Laurence J. McCook, Ph.D. President's International Visiting Professorial Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 2005 South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou James Cook University, Townsville