Allan W. Shearer teaches landscape planning and design studios and courses that bridge the Landscape Architecture and Community and Regional Planning programs. His research centers how individuals, communities, and societies create scenarios of the future and how these descriptions of possible tomorrows are used to inform present day decisions. Focusing on issues relating to the built environment, his work engages the expansion of the conceptual frameworks of scenario-based studies and also the methodology by which they are developed. His writings have appeared in a variety of planning and design journals and his collaborative books include Land Use Scenarios: Environmental Consequences of Change; Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss. He has been a visiting scholar at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University and was a Donald D. Harrington Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2012, he received the School of Arch

David R. Maidment is a surface water hydrologist who has been on the faculty of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin since 1981. He received his Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and his MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of the text “Applied Hydrology” and editor in chief of the “Handbook of Hydrology”. The American Water Resources Association has established a David R. Maidment Award for Exemplary Achievement in Water Resources Data and Information Systems in recognition of his accomplishments in that field.