Contributors

Jerry Paul Sheppard

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University My research interest deals principally with the theme of "why do things seem to go wrong?" My research involves global environment, institutional failings stemming from corporate governance issues, industry sector change, organizational failure, in-apt individual decision making failures and decision failures.

Jose Yong

Assistant professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Assistant professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle Jose is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University's Department of Psychology. His interests span social cognition, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, mating and relationships, culture, organizational behavior and group processes, motivation, and wellbeing. In a previous lifetime, Jose was active in the electronic music scene as a DJ but these days can be found pursuing his loves for whiskey, football, travel, and the occasional rave when he isn’t knee-deep in research.

Johannes Laube

Honorary Lecturer, Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia

Honorary Lecturer, Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia Johannes C. Laube works at the Institute for Energy and Climate 7: Stratosphere, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. Laube's research spans meteorology, environmental chemistry and analytical chemistry.

John Villasenor

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy, and Management, University of California, Los Angeles

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy, and Management, University of California, Los Angeles John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering, law, public policy, and management at UCLA, and is the faculty co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Villasenor’s work addresses the intersection of technology, law, and policy, with a focus on topics including digital communications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy. He has published in many academic journals as well as in the Atlantic, Billboard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, the Washington Post. He has also provided congressional testimony on multiple occasions. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Professor Villasenor was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed methods of imaging the earth from space. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Jared Adam

Master's Student in Entomology, Penn State

Master's Student in Entomology, Penn State I received my bachelors degree from PSU in the 2019 with a degree in Plant Science, Agroecology option with minors in entomology, international agriculture, and soil science. At present, I am pursuing a master’s degree at PSU in the entomology department. I am most interested in understanding how our current agricultural practices are affecting our most vulnerable arthropod populations. I work on quantifying agroecosystem health and investigate how current agronomic practices shape above and below ground arthropod communities.

John F. Tooker

Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State

Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State We study relationships among plants, insect herbivores, and natural enemies to understand factors that regulate populations of herbivorous insects. We are interested in both plant- and natural-enemy-mediated factors and how they influence insect behavior, community composition, and herbivore mortality. Our long-term goal is to exploit the ecology/biology of our study organisms to provide strategies and tactics for more sustainable insect pest management. Education B.S. - Bates College, 1992 M.S. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999 Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003