Lee Anne Bledsoe is the Associate Director of the Crawford Hydrology Laboratory at Western Kentucky University where she provides project management and professional consultation for karst groundwater studies . During her 16 years with CHL, she has worked on projects across the U.S. as well as China, Jamaica, and Brazil. Before coming to WKU, she worked for private research institutes and the National Park Service on water quality, hydrology, ecosystem restoration, and public health projects. She is the current Chair of the Mammoth Cave Biosphere Region and has been serving as an Advisory Council member since 2018. She also serves on the US Biosphere Network and CaveMAB, an international network of cave and karst biosphere reserves.

Jake Moore is the City of Bowling Green’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Coordinator, working out of the city’s Environmental Compliance Division. He is a 2023 graduate of Western Kentucky University’s journalism program and has previously written for the Bowling Green Daily News.