Elizabeth J. Farnsworth,¹ Miyoko Chu,² W. John Kress,³ Amanda K. Neill,⁴ Jason H. Best,⁵ John Pickering,⁶ Robert D. Stevenson,⁷ Gregory W. Courtney,⁸ John K. Vandyk,⁹ Aaron M. Ellison<sup>10

1</sup>Elizabeth J. Farnsworth ( ) is the senior research ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society, in Framingham, Massachusetts. efarnswo@mtholyoke.edu
²Miyoko Chu is the senior director of communications at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
³W. John Kress is the director of the Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science, and a curator and research scientist in the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution, i
⁴Amanda K. Neill is the director of the Herbarium
⁵Jason H. Best is a biodiversity informaticist, at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, in Fort Worth.
⁶John Pickering is an associate professor of biology at the Odum School of Ecology, at the University of Georgia, in Athens, and the founder of Discover Life.
⁷Robert D. Stevenson is an associate professor of biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
⁸Gregory W. Courtney is a professor and the curator of the Iowa State Insect Collection
⁹John K. VanDyk is a systems analyst and adjunct assistant professor, in the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University, in Ames.
¹⁰Aaron M. Ellison is the senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard University's Harvard Forest, in Petersham, Massachusetts.