Alex Greer is an associate professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. Greer conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on a number of topics related to disaster science, such as hazard adjustments, relocation decision-making processes, and organizational culture. He has a number of ongoing projects, including a National Science Foundation-funded study exploring earthquake adjustment in Oklahoma, a Quick Response project studying buyouts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and a study funded by the International Association of Fire Chiefs investigating organizational culture and leadership in the fire service.

Fawn Z. McGee has worked with the Green Acres Program since 1995, and became Chief of the State Land Acquisition Program in 2004. McGee manages the budget and negotiations to purchase lands for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Divisions of Park & Forestry and Fish & Wildlife. Additionally, she directs the State Blue Acres Buyout Program, which purchases flood-prone properties from homeowners at pre-storm value, demolishes them, and restores the land for conservation and flood mitigation purposes. McGee and her team have secured more than $300 million through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for this purpose.

Rob Moore is the Director of the Water & Climate Team at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). His work revolves around government policy and decision-making related to climate resilience and adaptation, sea level rise, flood risk, and disaster preparedness and response. He has focused on reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program, efficiency and accessibility for flood-prone home buyouts, and mechanisms to ensure that future development is consistent with projections of future climate impacts.

Elyse Zavar is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science at the University of North Texas. Zavar uses mixed-methods approaches to learn how communities reconstruct post-disaster landscapes to reduce risk to future hazards, and how they design, manage, and use post-buyout open space. Zavar is a 2020 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow and is currently studying commemoration following relocation programs induced by technological hazards, the Hurricane Harvey buyout program in Harris County, Texas, and the impact of COVID-19 on parks, heritage sites and protected places.