Chairman: Dr. J.R. Rigby, research hydrologist, U.S.D.A. National Sedimentation Laboratory

Dr. Clay Dibrell, Wm.W. Gresham Jr. Entrepreneurial Lecturer and associate professor of Management

Dr. Rich Gentry, assistant professor of management, Univ. of MS

Dr. Rich Forgette, interim director, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies; senior associate dean, College of Liberal Arts

Dr. Vivian Ibrahim, Croft associate professor of history and international studies;

Dr. Catherine Janasie, research counsel; MS Law Research Institute, UM School of Law

Dr. Clifford Ochs, director of the MS Water Security Institute, professor of Biology, Univ. of MS

Dr. David Rutherford, associate professor of Public Policy Leadership and executive director of the Mississippi Geographic Alliance, Univ. of MS

Dr. Stephanie Showalter-Otts, director, National Sea Grant Law Center at the UM School of Law

Dr. Douglass Sullivan-González, dean, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College; professor of history, Univ. of MS

Dr. Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck, associate dean, School of Engineering; associate professor of Civil Engineering, Univ. of MS

Dr. Kristine Willett, professor of environmental toxicology in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences; Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of MS

Dr. Debra Young, associate dean, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, Univ. of MS