Michael Leitner is the Fred B. Kniffen Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, US. He received a master degree at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria and a second master and a doctoral degree in Geographic Information Science (GISc) at the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, US. He is the recipient of the 2007 Meredith F. Burrill Award from the Association of American Geographers, was appointed editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science from 2008-14, and recipient of a Fulbright US Scholar Program to the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland from 2017-18. His main research interests are in GISc and its application to spatial crime analysis, medical geography, and geospatial privacy. He has published two co-authored books, two co-edited and one single-edited book, 10 co-edited journal volumes, and 70+ refereed articles and book chapters. He has successfully received more than US $6 million in grant money in total.
Quinn W. Lewis received his doctoral degree in Geography from the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois, USA. He then joined Indiana University as a post-doctoral researcher, working in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and supported by the Environmental Resilience Institute. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and is affiliated with the University of Waterloo Water Institute. His research interests are centered on advancement of fluvial geomorphology and hydrology through innovative fieldwork, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to improving understanding of complex natural systems. His published works range from studies on river confluence hydrodynamics, to using sUAS to unravel river and hillslope erosion patterns, to using online resources and citizen science in physical geography.