Nick Hill has studied the autecology of many rare, wetland plants over the past four decades from academia at Mount Saint Vincent University and later from consultancy to help avoid and mitigate impacts of development. He began work on the Eastern Mountain Avens in 2012 and coordinated the four-year benchmark research and restoration project described in this book. He now is a coordinator of a lakeshore restoration project at the Southwest Nova Biosphere Association in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Sarah Hines, M.Sc., is the research manager and Irving Scholar coordinator at the K.C. Irving Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Sarah has been connected to the restoration work on Brier Island since her honours undergraduate project in Acadia's Environmental Science Program. Sarah worked in the biotechnology industry before returning to Acadia.

Nelson O'Driscoll is a tenured full professor and currently head of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He is the principal investigator for the Mercury Lab (mercurylab.acadiau.ca). He has previously held a Canada research chair (2007-2017) in Environmental Biogeochemistry at Acadia University. Dr. O'Driscoll has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. He was the lead editor and co-editor for two previously edited books "Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury" published by John Wiley and Sons in 2012 and "Mercury Cycling in a Wetland-Dominated Ecosystem" for SETAC Press in 2005.