Dr. Erin R. Benett works at the University of Windsor and is the editor-in-chief of Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (BECT). He regularly provides the PhD students with advanced knowledge on paper writing and the entire submission process.

Dr. Johanna Kraus works on the cross-ecosystem transport of pollutants via emerging aquatic insects and is a renowned expert in stress impacts on the coupling of aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems.

Dr. Shawn J. Leroux works on the study of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, through food web modelling on Aquatic-terrestrial metaecosystems.

Prof. Dr. John Richardson is professor for riparian and stream area ecology at the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia and currently runs a Forest-Stream-Linkages Project and an Amphibian Population Ecology project.

Dr. David Walters is a freshwater ecologist with broad training in stream ecology, human impacts on aquatic ecosystems and ecotoxicology. His research topics include food webs contaminant flux and aquatic-riparian linkages.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kainz works at the WasserCluster Lunz, an inter-university center for aquatic ecosystem research. His research focus on the importance of enegry linkages among habitats in freshwater ecosystems