Walter K. Dodds,^* Christopher T. Robinson,^** Evelyn E. Gaiser,^*** Gretchen J. A. Hansen,^**** Heather Powell,^***** Joseph M. Smith,^****** Nathaniel B. Morse,^******* Sherri L. Johnson,^******** Stanley V. Gregory,^********* Tisza Bell,^********** Timothy K. Kratz,^*********** William H. Mcdowell<sup>************


*</sup>Walter K. Dodds (wkdodds@ksu.edu) is a University Distinguished Professor in Biology at Kansas State University, in Manhattan.
^**Christopher T. Robinson is a senior research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, in Dübendorf.
^***Evelyn E. Gaiser is an associate professor of biology at Florida International University, in University Park; a research associate at Archbold Biological Station, in Highlands County, Florida; and lead principal investigator of the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research Program, part of the US Long Term Ecological Research Network.
^****Gretchen J. A. Hansen is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin—Madison's Center for Limnology.
^*****Heather Powell is the assistant director of aquatic sciences at the National Ecological Observatory Network in Boulder, Colorado.
^******Joseph M. Smith is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University, in Manhattan.
^*******Nathaniel B. Morse is a PhD student in the Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science program at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.
^********Sherri L. Johnson is a supervisory research ecologist with US Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, in Portland, Oregon, and lead scientist for the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, in Blue River, Oregon.
^*********Stanley V. Gregory is a professor in Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University, in Corvallis.
^**********Tisza Bell is a PhD student in microbiology at Montana State University, in Bozeman; she completed her master's at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, in Boulder.
^***********Timothy K. Kratz is the director of the Center for Limnology's Trout Lake Station at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he is currently serving as a program director in the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation, in Arlington, Virginia.
^************William H. McDowell holds a presidential chair in the Department of Environmental Sciences and is director of the New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.