Playwright, storyteller, musician, poet, and actor, David Gonzalez was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for his original production "The Frog Bride" at Broadway's New Victory Theater. His poem, Oh Hudson, was commissioned by the Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center to commemorate the Quadricentennial of Hudson's exploration. read more

Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915. For the past several years, she has participated in “River Summer,” an interdisciplinary field course on the Hudson River organized by the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley colleges and universities. read more

Alex Matthiessen is the President of Riverkeeper, the organization that has been leading the decades-long effort to reclaim the Hudson River. By forging partnerships with leading academic and research institutions, he has strengthened and expanded Riverkeeper’s environmental enforcement efforts and advanced scientific understanding of the Hudson River. read more

A reporter for the New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin is one of America's most honored science writers. He has spent a quarter century providing ground-breaking coverage of subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the politics of climate to science at the North Pole. He has been an environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995. read more

By examining historical maps and archeological records in combination with geographic computer modeling and scientific sleuthing, Eric Sanderson has reimagined the old growth forests, wetlands and meadows that Henry Hudson saw when he first arrived on the shores of Manhattan in 1609. A landscape ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Sanderson works at the boundary of ecology and geography, but informed by a background in literature and an interest in history. read more

John Waldman is professor of biology at Queens College, City University of New York. Prior to this appointment in 2004, he was employed for 20 years by the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research. His research interests focus on the ecology and evolution of fishes, particularly diadromous forms, urban aquatic environments, and historical ecology. read more