Alice Angus , co-director of Proboscis, is an artist inspired by rethinking concepts and perceptions of landscape and human relationships to the land. Over the last six years she has been creating a body of art work exploring concepts proximity and remoteness, technology and presence, against the lived experience and local knowledge of a place. With Proboscis her work combines artistic and curatorial and she is currently working on: ‘Lattice’ a project for the British Council’s Creative Cities initiative in East Asia; ‘Anarchaeology’ a new commission with Render at the University of Waterloo Canada, to ‘excavate’ stories and experiences in the Waterloo Region, ‘Snout’, a collaboration with inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts, London) and researchers from Birkbeck College exploring relationships between the body, community and the environment; Topographies and Tales (2004-2007) a collaboration with Joyce Majiski investigating issues of landscape and identity in the North. Proboscis is an artist led studio, which researches, develops and facilitates innovation across disciplines. www.proboscis.org.uk Andrea Ballestero has degrees in Law from Universidad Autónoma de Centro América in Costa Rica, a Masters in Environmental Law from Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional in Costa Rica, a Masters in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan, and three years of course work in cultural anthropology at the University of California-Irvine. Her research includes coursework in Latin American environmental policies, international environmental law, micro-economics applied to natural resources, principles of hydrology, the anthropology of neo-liberalism, science and technology studies, political anthropology, ethnographic forms of inquiry, and quantitative and qualitative research methodology. Brandon Ballengee More than many environmental artists, the work of Brandon Ballengée bridges the gap between research biology and art. He combines a fascination with fish and amphibians with the techniques of commercial art photography. In 1996 Ballengée began collaborating with scientists to create hybrid environmental art/ ecological research projects. Since then he has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally in which he presents photographs and biological samples of the creatures he collects. He is involved directly with field research and uses the visual impact of science to engage the public in a discussion of broader environmental issues. Wiebe E. Bijker is professor of Technology & Society at the University of Maastricht. He was trained as an engineer in applied physics (Technical University of Delft), studied philosophy (University of Groningen), and holds a PhD in the sociology and history of technology (University of Twente). Bijker is Director of Studies of the research master MPhil-degree programme Cultures of Arts, Science, and Technology (CAST). Bijker was President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and was director and chairman of the board of the Netherlands Research School on Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC). Currently he is member of the Executive Council of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). He is founding co-editor of the monograph series Inside Technology of MIT Press. Bijker helped to create, and was the first scientific coordinator of, the European master’s degree program on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), carried out by some 18 universities in 10 European countries. Bijker is member of the Executive Committee of the EU Network of Excellence PRIME. Bijker’s research focuses on the relation between technology, society, and science. Since the 1990’s political and normative issues have been central in Bijker’s research. These are being studied in a variety of empirical domains: nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, ICT, gender and technology, public health policies, science & technology for developing nations, sustainable agriculture, public participation experiments, architecture and planning. His most recent work relates to issues of vulnerability in a technological culture — including the fundamental need for some vulnerability in an innovating society. Paige Miller is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University. As a research collaborator with the World Science Project she is working with a group of researchers in Louisiana, India, and Africa to understand the impact of technology on global development, specifically gender differences in the scientific careers of male and female researchers in Kerala, India. Paige has also worked with the Army Corps of Engineers Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET), following Hurricane Katrina, and is currently serving as an ethnographer assisting in field data collection that will help to estimate the rate of return of residents to the city of New Orleans following Katrina. Saravanan V. Subramanian is a Senior Researcher at ZEF, since January 2007. Before that he had worked with non-governmental organisation and research institutions in India. He has worked on irrigation systems, watershed management, urban drinking water and international river basins, more on institutional analysis, integrated water management, complex adaptive systems and socio- Katie Vann is the organizer of HYDROUS’08; she is a social theorist and organizational ethnographer working with the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam and with the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. Her current empirical research focuses on the organization of transnational water governance, with an emphasis on the cultural construction of policy formation, water management procedures, and accountability regimes. Joshka Wessels is currently the director of Sapiens Productions (Shrewbury, UK) and an applied anthropologist. She is in the process of writing a PhD dissertation on "Traditional Water Management in Syria; the potential for renovating qanats". In addition, she has also directed/produced two television documentaries; "Marooned" and "Tunnel Vision". She also directs/produces a community video program on Child-Centre Approaches to HIV/AIDS (CCATH) in Uganda and Kenya for Health Link Worldwide. Joshka's education includes a PhD in Human Geography from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Issues and Development Studies (AGIDS), in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Prior to her PhD work, she received an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Leiden (located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands). She was also a broadcast trainee at the Veronica Broadcasting Company in Hilversum, The Netherlands.