21st Century Global Freshwater Security: Can it Exist and Can Scientists Communicate the Challenges?Jay Famiglietti, Professor, Senior Water ScientistUniversity of California Irvine, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Water governance and more-than-human digital democracy: Countering "soft capture" in hydraulic fracturing regulation throughindigenous community-led water monitoring systemsKaren Bakker, Professor of Geography, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Program on Water Governance at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and SustainabilityUniversity of British Columbia

Water for Peace? The Geopolitics of Development in the Mekong River Basin, 1957-2016Chris Sneddon, Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies ProgramDarmouth College

Stochastic and Deterministic Dynamics of a Neotropical ForestStephen Hubbell, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,UCLA

Advanced Global Land Mapping and ModelingMatthew HansenProfessor of Geography, University of Maryland College Park