Alexandria Boehm is the Clare Boothe Luce assistant professor of environmental engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include coastal water quality, coastal transport processes and their influence on pollution, water borne pathogens, microbial pollution, water quality indicators, particle fate in water, coagulation, sedimentation, analysis of large data sets, and applied math. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on environmental engineering, coastal contamination, pathogens in the environment, and environmental health microbiology. Boehm's research is focused on understanding coastal water quality at a number of field sites along the California Coast including Stinson Beach, Santa Cruz Beach, Lovers Point, and Huntington Beach. She serves as a member of the State of California Clean Beach Task Force. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2007. Boehm received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering in 2000 and 1997, respectively, from University of California Irvine. She received a B.S. with honors in Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology in 1996.

Chris Coburn works as the Water Resources Program Analyst for Santa Cruz County. His work at the County focuses on the administration of various water quality and fisheries projects and the management of beach water quality research and protection efforts. Prior to his work with the County, Chris served as the Water Quality Protection Program Director for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Chris earned a Master's Degree in Environmental Science and Management with an emphasis in Water Resources Management from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Chris also has a Bachelor's Degree in Biopsychology also from U.C.S.B.

Bruce Daniels has served for six years as a Director, and for the last
several years as President, of the Soquel Creek Water District. He
served for over six years as a Member and as Vice-Chair and Chair of
the state's Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. He was
the founder and first Chair of Santa Cruz County Sierra Club's Water
Resources Committee. Bruce is a member of technical organizations like
the Association of Ground Water Scientists & Engineers and many
local environmental groups. Bruce received his education in Computer
Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received
a B.S. and M.S. and also did some work in their Ph.D. program. He has
worked at H.P., Apple, Oracle, Borland, and his own start-up Singular
Software. He currently works at Sun Microsystems where he has been
doing application design and software development tools.