NORBERT P. PSUTY is the director of the Sandy Hook Cooperative Research Programs, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University.
DOUGLAS D. OFIARA is an assistant professor of public policy and management at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, and is a visiting scholar with the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. He and others together with Psuty worked on the Coastal Hazard Management Report submitted to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, out of which this book was developed.
Orrin H. Pilkey is Emeritus James B. Duke Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University and the author and coauthor of many books.
Charles O. Pilkey is a former geologist turned freelance sculptor, writer, and illustrator.
Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist and coauthor with Orrin H. Pilkey of two books.
Norma J. Longo, a geologist and photographer, is coauthor with Pilkey of several books on coastal issues.
Keith C. Pilkey, an attorney concerned with legal issues of coastal development, is coauthor with Orrin H. Pilkey of two books about sea level rise.
Fred B. Dodson is a real estate developer who manages his organization’s affordable housing development activities.
Hannah L. Hayes is a scholar of climate justice, sustainable development, and disaster capitalism.