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Michael McClain, General Coordinator, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies of Florida International University. He is also director of the university's Resource Analysis Laboratory, which is devoted specifically to research based in remote sensing and modeling of Earth surface processes. Dr. McClain has worked extensively in the Brazilian, Bolivian, and Peruvian portions of the Amazon basin. Between August 1997 and December 1998 he served as an NSF International Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Departamento de Manejo Forestal of the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, in Lima Peru. Additional information can be found at Dr. McClain's personal homepage

Remigio Galárraga, Ecuadorian Coordinator, is Chairman of the Departamento de Hidraulica y Recursos Hidricos at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional and former director of INAMHI, Ecuador's national meteorological and hydrological agency. Dr. Galárraga's specialties are in global change, remote sensing applied to water resources, and catchment modeling.

Alex V. Krusche, Brazilian Coordinator, is a researcher in the Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura of the Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Krusche has conducted research on the biogeochemistry of river systems in Brazil since 1987, covering rivers in the State of São Paulo and in the Amazon Basin. He is currently involved in several projects dealing with the functioning of natural riverine systems in these regions and the impacts of human-induced changes. These are part of a major enterprise of the University of São Paulo at Piracicaba to develop biogeochemical model for tropical river ecology.

Carlos Llerena, Peruvian Coordinator, is a professor in the Faculty of Forestry of the UNALM where he teaches courses on watershed management and forest hydrology. Recently he spearheaded the development of a new graduate studies program oriented toward global change and Amazon forests. Prof. Llerena is the PI of the AARAM-Peru project in the Pachitea basin, which is supported by the IAI ISP-III program. Prof. Llerena also leads two additional international hydrological and environmental programs located in the mountain and Amazon regions of Peru. His visionary and promotion activities were among the main forces leading to the creation of the AARAM Project.

Jorge Quintanilla, Bolivian Coordinator, is a professor in the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. His work ranges from studies of mining-related trace metal contamination to studies of global change impacts on atmospheric contamination in Bolivia. For more than 10 years, Prof. Quintanilla has been a main collaborator of ORSTOM in investigations of the Alto Beni catchment.

J. Efraín Ruíz, Colombian Coordinator is a professor in the Departmento de Química of the Universidad de los Andes. There he is Coordinator of the Environmental Sciences Program within the Faculty of Sciences. Prof. Ruiz directed the national program for HIMAT in Water Quality and Sediments for 15 years. He also directed the project entitled Contamination of the Río Magdalena by Trace Metals and its Relationship with Physicochemical and Hydrological Parameters. Later, he was director of the Environmental Chemistry and Biology Program for IDEAM.

Naziano Filizola, AARAM-ANEEL Representative is a geologist with an M.Sc. from the National Electric Energy Agency. He is an associated researcher of the HiBAm Project, a member of the Working Group in Basic Systems of the Hydrological Commission of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). His interests are in the hydrology of large river basins (the Amazon in particular), hydro-sedimentology, and hydro-electric reservoirs.