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Ian Urquhart is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His teaching and research there focused on the political economy of natural resource exploitation and climate change. His 2018 book Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands was short-listed for the Canadian Political Science Association’s Donald V. Smiley prize.” Or, instead

Ian Rose is a freelance writer and digital marketer based outside Portland, Oregon. He first fell in love with coastal ecosystems while studying seabird colonies in the Columbia River estuary and the Bering Strait. When he’s not at his desk, he can most reliably be found birding the coast, forests, and wetlands of the Pacific Northwest or tending his unruly backyard garden.

Ian Thomson is the president of Advanced Biofuels Canada/ Biocarburants avancés Canada, the national voice for producers, distributors, and technology developers of advanced biofuels and renewable synthetic fuels. The association’s members operate over 15 billion litres of installed production capacity worldwide, and supply the clean fuels used to meet North American and EU

Ian Sample is science editor of the Guardian. Before joining the newspaper in 2003, he was a journalist at New Scientist and worked at the Institute of Physics as a journal editor. He has a PhD in biomedical materials from Queen Mary's, University of London. Ian also presents the Science Weekly podcast.