Sala is the Julie A. Wrigley, Regents, and Foundation Professor and the Founding Director of the Global Drylands Center at ASU.

Dr. Hall is a conservation scientist, Assoc. Dean in the College of Global Futures, and award-winning teacher who studies ecosystem resilience and complex interactions between people and nature near protected areas.

Leslie Landrum is a senior research scientist and ASU Herbarium Curator.

Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.

Shannon is the instructional lab manager at ASU Downtown. She oversees all the science teaching lab instructors and also teaches ABS and BIO courses.

Park research focuses on horticultural crop physiology and controlled environment agriculture.