| Windsor Aguirre | DePaul University | Fishes |
| William Surprison (Bil) Alverson | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Neotropical Botany |
| Diana (Tita) Alvira | Legado Initiative | Conservation for Wellbeing |
| Grace Anderson | Magic Cabinet | Community Engagement |
| Thomas Anton | The Ecological Consulting Group | Herpetology |
| Gabriel Arellano | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Neotropical Botany |
| Ashley Arico | The Art Institute of Chicago | Anthropology - African Art |
| Peter Avis | Indiana University Northwest | ectomycchorizal fungal communities |
| Emily Baca Marroquin | | Andean Archaeology |
| Daniel Ballhorn | University of Minnesota | Botany |
| Rosemary Kathleen Barraclough | University of Auckland | Birds |
| Fred Barrie | Missouri Botanical Garden | Flowering and Edible plants |
| William Bemis | Cornell University | Fossil Fishes |
| Lois Biggs | | Anthropology |
| Daniel Blake | University of Illinois | Fossil Invertebrates |
| Richard Blanton | Purdue University | Archaeology, Mexico |
| Nicholas Block | Stonehill College | Birds |
| Rodrigo Botero | Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS) | Biodiversity Conservation |
| Erin Brandt | University of Chicago | Morphology |
| Robert Michael Brattain | Purdue University | Entomology |
| Adriana Bravo | Royal Ontario Museum | Neotropical Biology |
| Paul Brinkman | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | Paleontology |
| Stefania Briones | Field Museum | Bats |
| Christopher A. Brochu | University of Iowa | Vertebrate Paleontology |
| Michael A. Bryson | Roosevelt University | Sustainability |
| Jason Bystriansky | DePaul University | physiology and osmoregulation in fishes |
| Rosa Cabrera | University of Illinois Chicago | Latino Culture, Anthropology |
| Edwin Cadena Rueda | Universidad del Rosario-Bogota | Jurassic and Early Cretaceous paleovertebrates |
| Andrew Campbell | University of Chicago | Cosmochemistry |
| Michael "Miggs" Armand P. Canilao | University of the Philippines Diliman | Ethnological of the Philippines |
| João Capurucho | Field Museum | Population genetics; Scolopadid (Sandpipers and Allies) phylogenetics |
| Matthew T. Carrano | Smithsonian Institution | Dinosaurs |
| Mónica R. Carvalho | University of Michigan | Paleobotany |
| Mitchel Castro Alvarez | Field Museum | Conservation for Wellbeing, Peru |
| Leo Chan Gaskins | Duke Univeristy | Marine Science and Conservation |
| Gabrielle Choimet | SFDAS, Sudan | Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology |
| Stephanie Clark | Invertebrate Identification, Sydney | Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy |
| Julia Clarke | University of Texas at Austin | Fossil Vertebrates |
| David Jonathan Clarke | University of Memphis | Entomology, Paleobiology, Systematics (Taxonomy) |
| Michael Ivor Coates | University of Chicago | Paleontology, vertebrate diversity, evolution |
| Raymond G. Codrington | Aspen Institute | Popular culture and race studies, museum and public engagement, policy analysis, and applied research |
| Timothy M. Collins | Florida State University | Molecular Systematics, Evolution, Biogeography, and Phylogeography |
| Michael David Colvard | University of Illinois Chicago | Medicinal plants & dentistry |
| Richard Condit | retired | Tropical Ecology |
| Jacob Cooper | University of Kansas | Birds |
| Peter Crane | Oak Spring Garden Foundation | Palebotany |
| Ana Crespo | Universidad Madrid | Pharmacy |
| Ana Croegaert | | Anthropology |
| Darin Croft | Case Western University | Fossil Vertebrates |
| Thomas Cullen | | Paleobiology, Paleoecology |
| Tauana Cunha | Loyola University of Chicago | genomics |
| Gimo Daniel | National Museum Bloemfontein | Terrestrial Invertebrates |
| Nicolas Dauphas | University of Chicago | Meteoritics |
| Andrew Davis | University of Chicago | Isotope Geochemistry, cosmochemistry |
| Noe U. De la Sancha | Chicago State University | Paraguayan Mammals |
| Paulo Eduardo De Oliveira | University of Sao Paulo | Fossil pollen and spores |
| Samuel Degregori | Northwestern University | microbiomes of fishes |
| Deborah Delgado | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru | Andes Amazon |
| Terrance "Terry" Demos | Field Museum | Mammals, evolutionary biology |
| Carl W. Dick | Western Kentucky University | Inter-relationships of ectoparasites and mammalian hosts |
| Pradeep Divakar | Complutense University of Madrid | Lichens |
| Marlene Donnelly | Field Museum | Scientific Illustration |
| Seth Donoughe | University of Chicago | Entomology |
| Michael L. Draney | UW-Green Bay | Spiders |
| Isabelle Druc | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Anthropology |
| Regan Dunn | La Brea Tar Pits and Museum | Paleobotany |
| Mariano Roy Duya | University of the Philippines Diliman | Mammals |
| Bethany Elkington | University of Illinois Chicago | Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy |
| Ignacio Escalante Meza | UIC | Entomology |
| Jacob Esselstyn | Louisiana State University | Mammals, speciation, island biogeography, phylogenetics, systematics, and community ecology. |
| Matteo Fabbri | University of Chicago | Paleontology |
| Mason Fidino | Lincoln Park Zoo | Ecology, analytics, wildlife management |
| Margaux Fischer | Field Museum | Liverworts |
| John Flynn | American Museum of Natural History | Fossil Vertebrates |
| Michael Foote | University of Chicago | Paleontology, biogeography, evolutionary paleoecology, macroevolution |
| Catherine Forster | SUNY Stony Brook | Paleontology, dinosaurs, Ornithiscia |
| Adrian Forsyth | The Andes Amazon Fund | Policy, Strategy, Advocacy |
| Matt Friedman | University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology | fossil fishes |
| Jörg Fröbisch | Museum fur Naturkunde | Evolution of mammals |
| Gary Galbreath | Northwestern University | Paleontogy and Zoology |
| Gary Galbreath | Northwestern University | Evolutionary and conservation biology research in Southeast Asia |
| Elliot Gardner | Case Western Reserve University | Botany |
| Chelsea A. M. Gardner | Acadia University | Greco-Roman archaeology |
| Bucky Gates | Lake Forest College | Dinosaurs |
| Timothy Gaudin | University of Tennessee | Mammals, evolutionary biology |
| Daniel L Gebo | Northern Illinois University | Primate evolution and anatomy |
| Jochen Gerber | Field Museum | Land and Freshwater Mollusks |
| Paul Gignac | Oklahoma State University | Tetrapod Vertebrates |
| Gonzalo Giribet | Harvard University, Museum of Comparative University | Evolutionary biology, animal diversity |
| Ian Glasspool | Field Museum | Paleobotany |
| Mark Golitko | University of Notre Dame | Archaeology |
| Valentina Gómez-Bahamón | Pennsylvania State University | Migration in New World birds |
| Eric Gorscak | Midwestern University | Dinosaurs |
| James G. Graham | Field Museum | Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy |
| Anne L. Grauer | Loyola University of Chicago | Health and disease in historic-period populations |
| Jennika Greer | Chalmers Technical University | Meteoritics |
| Lawrence Grossman | University of Chicago | Meteoritics |
| Thomas Guensburg | Rock Valley College | Fossil Vertebrates |
| Juan Guevara | Universidad de las Américas (Ecuador) | Neotropical Botany |
| Attila Gyucha | University of Georgia | Hungary and Greece Anthropology |
| William Hammer | Augustana College | Fossil Vertebrates |
| Yara Haridy | University of Chicago | Paleontology |
| John M. Healy | Queensland Museum | Ultrastructure and taxonomic utility of spermatozoa |
| Luis Francisco Henao-Diaz | University of Chicago | Evolutionary biology, biostatistics, macroevolution |
| Josh Henkin | Field Museum | Medical ethnobotany |
| Patrick Herendeen | Chicago Botanic Garden | Flowering plant evolution |
| Andrew Hipp | University of Chicago | Botany |
| Sean Hoban | Morton Arboretum | plant conservation genetics |
| Carina Hoorn | University of Amsterdam | Geology, Paleoecology |
| James Hopson | University of Chicago | Fossil Vert. |
| Jen-Pan Huang | Academia Sinica, Taipei | Lichens |
| Rainer Hutterer | Alexander Koenig Museum | Vertebrates, mammalogy |
| Boris Igic | University of Illinois Chicago | Mating, evolution, diversification |
| David Jablonski | University of Chicago | Paleontology |
| Christine Janis | Brown University | Ungulate paleobiology |
| Sharon Jansa | University of Minnesota | Mammals |
| Christopher Carleton Jarrett | Rainforest Foundation US | Cultural Anthropologist |
| Bruce Jayne | University of Cincinnati | Amphibians and Reptiles |
| Levi Jenkins | Chicago Public Schools | Youth engagement toward conservation |
| Zi-Feng Jiang | University of Chicago | Birds, parasites |
| Carolyn Schiller Johnson | University of Chicago | Anthropology, humanities, Asia |
| Marian Kadushin | University of Illinois Chicago | Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy |
| Christian Kammerer | North Carolina Museum of Natural Hsitory | Fossil Vertebrates |
| J. Mark Kenoyer | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Kish |
| Susan Kirt | Chicago State University | Ecology, Photography |
| Az Klymiuk | University of Manitoba | Paleobotany |
| Nicholas (Nic) Kotlinski | Colorado State Forest Service | GIS, Data Visualization |
| David Krause | SUNY Stony Brook | Anatomy, paleontology |
| Daniel Ksepka | North Carolina State University | Birds |
| Patrick Kück | Leibniz Institute | Phylogenetic databases |
| Zoe Kulik | University of Washington | Paleontology |
| Charo Lanao | Atinchik Consultoras | Community Engagement |
| Tyrone H. Lavery | Australia National University | Mammals, island biogeography, indigenous-led conservation in Melanesia |
| Ana Lemos | Legado Initiative | Conservation for Wellbeing |
| Blanca León | University of Texas | Neotropical Botany |
| Qin Li | East China Normal University | Botany |
| Sara Lipshutz | Loyola University Chicago | Birds |
| Mark Littman | Stagg High School | fish systematics and taxonomy |
| Jen Lobo | SAIC | Scientific Illustration |
| R. Eric Lombard | University of Chicago | Fossil vertebrates |
| Lorena Lopez | Cultivate Power | Community Engagement |
| Dylan Lott | University of Illinois-Chicago | Tibetan Buddhism, Neuroscience, and the Politics of Representation |
| Maria Cecilia Lozado Cerna | University of Chicago | Andean archaeology |
| Robert Lücking | The Field Museum | Lichens, Fungi |
| Ernest Lundelius | University of Texas at Austin | Fossil Vert. |
| James Luteyn | The New York Botanical Garden | Neotropical blueberries |
| Holly Lutz | The Scripps Research Institute | Bats, Birds, Evolution |
| Sean Lyon | Field Museum | Birds |
| Miguel Macedo | Instituto del Bien Común – IBC | Environmental Governance |
| Maggie MacPherson | Western Illinois University | Birds |
| Renan Maestri | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | Mammals |
| Stephen Mahony | | Herpetology |
| Pete Makovicky | University of Minnesota | Dinosaurs |
| Roberta Mason-Gamer | University of Illinois Chicago | Ecology, evolution, speciation |
| Wilfredo Matamoros | Universidad de Ciencias Y Artes de Chiapas | freshwater fishes of Central America and southern Mexico. |
| Elio (Wayu) Matapi | Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS) | Community Engagement |
| Neal Matherne | Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center | Southeast Asia and Philippine-area expertise |
| Axel Mayer | Universität Konstanz | axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de |
| Gregory C. Mayer | University of Wisconsin-Parkside | Systematics and ecology of West Indian and Central American Anolis lizards. |
| Molly McDonough | Chicago State University | African Small Mammal Phylogenetics |
| Matthew McDowell | University of Tasmania | Small Mammal Faunas, Caves |
| Amy McLachlan | | Anthropology |
| Sean B. Menke | Lake Forest College | Ecology, biogeography |
| Gary Merrill | Field Museum | local moss flora expertise |
| Paula M. Mikkelsen | Field Museum | Invertebrates |
| Joseph Milanovich | Loyola University Chicago | Aquatic and Vertebrate ecology, herpetology |
| Heather Miller | Illinois State Museum | Tribal Relations |
| Marc A. Milne | University of Indianapolis | Insects |
| Katherine Moore Powell | Lynker Technology | Climate Adaptation, Water Resources |
| Debra (Debby) Moskovits | Field Museum | Conservation Action, Conservation Ecology |
| Gregory M. Mueller | Chicago Botanic Garden | Mycology |
| Luis Muro | LACMA | Andean and Moche Prehistory |
| Jon Nations | University of Chicago | Mammals |
| Eugenio Nearns | Smithsonian Institution | Entomology |
| Christina Nicholas | University of Chicago | Anthropology |
| Christine Niezgoda | Field Museum | Flowering Plants |
| Jasmine Nirody | University of Chicago | Evolutionary Biology |
| Christopher R. Noto | University Of Wisconsin–Parkside | Vertebrate Paleontology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |
| Philip Novack-Gottshall | Benedictine University | Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy |
| Patricia Novick | Egan Office of Urban Education and Community Partnerships, DePaul University | Social Psychology |
| Lynn K. Nyhart | University of Wisconsin-Madison | History of biology |
| Carter O'Brien | City of Chicago | Sustainability |
| Janine Ochoa | University of the Philippines | Mammals, archaeology, paleobiology |
| Akin Ogundiran | Northwestern University | African Archaeology/Anthropology |
| Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka | Notre Dame University | Economic anthropology |
| Link Olson | University of Alaska | Mammals |
| Anna K. Ormiston | The Nature Conservancy | Conservation Ecology, Guyana |
| Víctor R. Pacheco Torres | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Mammals in Peru |
| Luciano Palmieri | Universidade de São Paulo | Insects |
| Frank Pascoe | College of St. Francis | Spiders |
| Alison Paul | The Conservation Foundation | Community-based conservation |
| William J. Pestle | University of Miami | Bioarchaeology, prehistoric Latin American and Caribbean peoples |
| Constantine Petridis | Art Institute of Chicago | African arts |
| Oscar Pineda-Catalan | University of Chicago | Biodiversity, Genetics |
| Roy E. Plotnick | University of Illinois Chicago | Invertebrate paleontology |
| Mane Pritza | Field Museum | Digital Photography; Photogrammetry, Focus Stacking photography, Emu database |
| Ayesha Qazi-Lampert | Field Museum | Environmental Science Education, Biology Education |
| Ashwin Ravikumar | Amherst College | Political Ecology |
| Timothy A. Rawlings | Cape Breton University | Invertebrates |
| Iza Redlinski | Forest Preserves of Cook County | Conservation Ecology |
| Laura Rericha-Anchor | Author, Biologist, Botanist, and Ecological consultant | Botany, ecology |
| Alan Resetar | Field Museum | Reptiles and Amphibians |
| William Ridge | University of Illinois Chicago | Anthropology |
| Danielle Riebe | University of North Georgia - Gainesville | European anthropology |
| Marcos Antonio Ríos Paredes | Herbario Amazonense (AMAZ), Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana | Botany |
| Mario A. Rivera | ICOMOS-Chile | Anthropology |
| Ray Rogers | Macalester College | Sedimentary geology, taphonomy, marine and terrestrial fossils |
| John Rogner | Illinois Department of Natural Resources (retired) | Landscape Conservation, Chicago Wilderness |
| Amy Rosenthal | Planet | Conservation |
| Laurel Ross | Field Museum | Conservation Ecology, Chicago Wilderness |
| Callum Ross | University of Chicago | Mammals |
| Dakota Rowsey | Arizona State University | Evolution and biogeography of the Philippine mammal fauna |
| Emily Ruhs | University of Chicago | Ornithology |
| Ana Rosa Sáenz Rodriguez | Instituto del Bien Común – IBC | Conservation Ecology, Peru |
| Evan Saitta | Field Museum | Paleontology |
| Alejandra Salazar Molano | Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS) | Sociology, Indigenous and Campesino Communites |
| Nina Sandlin | Field Museum | spider species |
| Rachel Santymire | Lincoln Park Zoo | Wildlife biology |
| Andre Sartori | THIS Institute | Invertebrates |
| Rachel Scarlett | Purdue University | Conservation Biology |
| Carolyn Schiller Johnson | University of Chicago | Anthropology |
| Birger Schmitz | Lund University | Meteoritics and stratigraphy |
| Hans-Peter Schultze | University of Kansas | Paleontology |
| Christopher Scotese | PALEOMAP | Paleogeography |
| Lydia Scott | The Morton Arboretum | Urban Foresty |
| Jodi Sedlock | Lawrence University | Philippine bats |
| Rebecca Seifried | University of Massachusetts Amherst | GIS, mapping |
| David Sepkoski | University of Illinois Chicago | Paleontology |
| Tatiana Sepúlveda | University of Guelph | Insects biodiversity & taxonomy |
| Paul Sereno | University of Chicago | Fossil Vert., dinosaurs |
| Amie Settlecowski | University of Chicago | Birds |
| Nicola Sharratt | Georgia State University | Archaeology, Andean South America |
| Gongle Shi | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology | Palaeontology |
| Neil Shubin | University of Chicago | evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas |
| Christian A. Sidor | University of Washington | Vertebrate Evolution during the Permian and Triassic |
| Velizar Simeonovski | Field Museum | Scientific Illustration |
| Steven B. Simon | University of New Mexico | petrology and cosmochemistry of early Solar System materials |
| Michelle Singleton | Midwestern University | Primate Craniofacial Evolution and Development |
| Heather Skeen | University of Connecticut | Birds |
| Graham Slater | University of Chicago | Geophysical Science |
| Arif Smith | University of Chicago | Art, Arts Education |
| Nathan Smith | Howard University | Fossil Vert. |
| Neil Adam Smith | Clemson University | Paleontology |
| Robert Stallard | University of Colorado Boulder | Hydrology, Biogeochemistry |
| Charles E. Stanish | University of California at Los Angeles | Prehistoric societies of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile |
| Thomas Stephan | University of Chicago | Interplanetary dust particles |
| Scott J. Steppan | Florida State University | Origin of biological diversity, rodents and bivalves |
| Betty Strack | Field Museum | Mycology |
| Bryan L. Stuart | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | Herpetology |
| Yoel Stuart | Loyola University | speciation and ecological diversification in fishes, with a focus on morphology of extant and fossil fishes. |
| Stuart S. Sumida | Cal State San Bernardino | Vertebrate paleontology |
| Stephen Sutton | University of Chicago | Meteoritics |
| Paula Tallman | Loyola | Social Anthropology |
| Fui Lian Tan | Field Museum | Herpetology |
| Donald Charles Taphorn Baechle | Renewable Natural Resources Department, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales "Ezequiel Zamora" (Retired) | Aquatic Zoology |
| Emily Teeter | Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt | Anthropology - Egyptology |
| Jose Tello | Long Island University | Evolutionary biology, birds |
| Jan Johan ter Poorten | Field Museum | Invertebrates |
| Weston (Wes) Testo | Field Museum | Pteridology (ferns) |
| Michelle Thompson | San Diego Natural History Museum | Biology, Rapid Inventory assessment |
| Robert M. Timm | University of Kansas | Tropical Mammals |
| Susumu Tomiya | Kyoto University | Vert. Paleo |
| Luis Alberto Torres Montenegro | Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC) | Neotropical Botany |
| Maureen Turcatel | USDA in South San Francisco | Insects: horseflies |
| Andrea Twiss-Brooks | University of Chicago | Humanities and Area Studies |
| Nathan Upham | University of Chicago | Mammals |
| Maria Valdes | Field Museum | Meteroritics |
| Benjamin Van Doren | University of Illinois at Urbana | Zoology; Avian |
| David Vaughan | Mote Tropical Research Laboratory | Aquaculture |
| Paúl M. Velazco | Arcadia University | Mammals |
| Benjamin R. Vining | Boston University | Environmental archaeologist |
| Robert S. Voss | American Museum of Natural History | Mammals |
| Corine Vriesendorp | Field Museum | Conservation Ecology |
| Heather Walder | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse | Archaeology/Great Lakes |
| Joseph F. Walker | University of Illinois Chicago | Plant phylogenomics |
| J. Richard (Jonathan) Walz | School for International Training | Anthropology and African Studies |
| Erin B. Waxenbaum | Northwestern University | Physical Anthropology |
| Paul W. Webala | Maasai Mara University | Bats of Kenya |
| Mark Webster | University of Chicago | Systematics/phylogenetics, and biostratigraphy, paleontology |
| Fred E. Wells | Western Australian Fishers and Marine Research Laboratories | Marine Biology |
| Mark Westneat | University of Chicago | Biomechanics and Phylogenetics |
| Robin Whatley | Columbia College | Early mammal paleoecology and taphonomy |
| Alexander White | Smithsonian Institution | Data science, machine learning, bioinformatics |
| Dawson M. White | Harvard University | Rare plants; plant diversity studies |
| Alan T. Whittemore | Morton Arboretum | Plant taxonomy; herbarium management |
| Jelle Wiersma | | Pleistocene fossils |
| Karen Wilson | University of Chicago | Anthropology, Archaeology |
| Christopher Wirth | Purdue University | Insect Biodiversity and Conservation |
| Jack Wittry | Field Museum | Mazon Creek Fossils |
| Yun-Hsin "Becky" Wu | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | Fossil birds |
| Kenneth Young | | Biogeography; Landscape Ecology; Climate Change; Sustainability; Tropical Environments |
| Nyree Zerega | Northwestern University | Botany |
| Dilyana Zieske | Field Museum | Balkan ethnography and ethnohistory |