Brain earned B.S. degrees in Anthropology and Wildlife Biology in 1996, and Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in 1997 from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal from 1997-2000. He received his M.S. From University of Florida in Agroforestry in 2004. He is now a researcher at the University of Florida in the Phytoremediation and Short-rotation Woody Crops Renewable Energy Program while he works on his doctorate.

Brian's research uses satellite imagery to analyze forest productivity on a landscape level to estimate the quantity of woody biomass that might be available for a bio-based industry plant, considering energy content and carbon balance, not just economics. The goal is to build dynamic models in a GIS database to examine scenarios for determining optimal size and sites of such plants. The scenario modeling facilitates considering various bio-fuel crops to optimize energy and carbon balance. He is also president of the Bioenergy and Sustainable Energy Society.

Jensen is a Conservation Measures Specialist for The Nature Conservancy. The Conservation Measures Specialist provides leadership and support necessary to advance the evaluation of conservation strategies through the application of strategy effectiveness measures and monitoring at selected scales and projects across the Conservancy. This position is part of the Conservancy's Conservation Methods and Tools Unit, a program designed to establish and continually improve a suite of practical conservation methods and tools to improve our conservation efforts. The Conservation Measures Specialist will support developing and implementing existing and new methods and tools to address the challenges of measuring the results of the Conservancy's work with partners around the world and at ever-increasing spatial scales.

She earned a BA in English Literature and is a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia in 1995. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua between 1996-1998 and lived in Washington D.C. working for environmental non-profits prior to commencing her M.S. and PhD program in 2002 at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow investigating the relationship between avian ecology and human communities.