C. K. Minns has been a senior scientist at Fisheries & Oceans Canada since 1974 and played a key role in implementing ecosystem approach in the management of Project Quinte. He has served as guest editor of two special issues of AEHM on the Bay of Quinte. He has also served as the head of the Fish Habitat section and lead advisor of the Project Quinte.
Since 1969 Mohiuddin Munawar has been actively involved in Great Lakes research as a senior research scientist at Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Burlington, Ontario. His field of specialization is phytoplankton structure and ecology, microbial loop, planktonic food web, and ecosystem health and management of the Laurentian Great Lakes.
Marten A. Koops is a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, where he served as the lead manager for the Bay of Quinte food web monitoring program for a ten-year period (2007-2017). He is an ecological modeler and his research aims to better understand the factors that determine or limit the productivity of freshwater fishes, focusing on anthropogenic stressors, environmental conditions, life history traits, food web function, and the interactions among these factors.