Kristen A. Baum,^1,*,** William L. Rubink,^2,*** Robert N. Coulson,^3,**** Vaughn M. Bryanthttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-6803<sup>4,*****

1</sup>aDepartment of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, 430 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, Oklahoma 7407
²bP.O. Box 2686, Edinburg, Texas 78540, USA
³cKnowledge Engineering Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station,
⁴dPalynology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 778

^*Corresponding author. Email: kristen.baum@okstate.edu
^**KRISTEN A. BAUM is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University. She received her BS in Environmental Science from the College of William and Mary, her MS in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University, and her Ph.D. in Entomology from Texas A&M University. She is a spatial ecologist with a research focus on questions of conservation concern related to habitat fragmentation, landscape structure, animal movement and invasive species.
^***WILLIAM L. RUBINK is a retired entomologist, formerly with the USDA honey bee Laboratory in Weslaco, Texas, where from 1987 to 2005 his research was centered on the northward migration of Africanized honey bees through Mexico and into the USA and Texas, and the biology of feral honey bee populations. He received his BS and MS in soil science and biometeorology from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in entomology from Colorado State University. Other research interests have included the digger wasp biology and behaviour in the southwestern USA, biology of the tachinid parasitoid Bonnetia comta in Ohio, and the biology of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax, in Mexico and Costa Rica.
^****ROBERT N. COULSON is a Professor in the Departments of Entomology and Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M University. His research is transdisciplinary in approach and directed to investigations of the activities and impacts of insects and other taxa in forest, prairie, savanna and agricultural landscapes. The research addresses issues of significance to ecological science as well as land-use management. He co-founded and directs the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (KEL) (http://kelab.tamu.edu/) to facilitate research and development of computer applications for planning, problemsolving and decision-making in environmental science and management. Focus of KEL research is directed to landscape-scale problems that require integration, interpretation, and use of different representations of knowledge. Special emphasis has been placed on ways and means of blending qualitative heuristic knowledge of experts with quantitative information that results from scientific investigations.
^*****VAUGHN M. BRYANT received his degrees from The University of Texas at Austin (BA in geography, MA in anthropology, Ph.D. in botany) and currently is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Texas A&M University Palynology Laboratory and is also an adjunct Professor of Forensic Sciences at The University of Nebraska. He has been the AASP Managing Editor, President-Elect and President. He has also received the AASP Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Membership Award. Since 1990 he has been a Trustee and the Secretary of the AASP Foundation.