Lars Bejder is an Associate Professor at Murdoch University, Australia and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke University, USA. His research interests include analysis and development of quantitative methods to evaluate complex animal social structures, evaluation of the impacts of human activity on cetaceans, and fundamental biology and ecology.

Writer: Rob Williams For "2000 AD" Williams has written "Asylum", with Boo Cook and then ongoing "Low Life" along with one-off short stories. He would again team up with Laurence Campbell for the 2006 "Wolverine Christmas Special" and later a "PunisherMAX" one-shot. Williams would then go on to get other work for Marvel Comics, including a story in the "Dark X-Men: The Beginning anthology", a "Captain Britain" story in "Deadpool Team Up" and a "Ghost Rider". Williams has also written comics based on a number of intellectual properties, including stories for "Star Wars" comics from Dark Horse, and, with the same publisher, writing "Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods".

Artists:

Henry Flint, Flint is a rising star in comics, his extensive work in the UK on "2000 AD" has been collected in various volumes, nmost recently "Zombo: Can I Eat You Please", which he co-created. he has also pencilled DC's "Omega Man". His work on "Shakara" have marked him out from his contemporaries for its amazing character and deisgn work.

Simon Coleby, Coleby started his mainstream work in the British comics industry in 1987, working at both 2000 AD and Marvel UK. At "2000 AD" he contributed heavily to "Judge Dredd" and "Rogue Trooper" as well as becoming the lead artist on "Low Life". He is worked on the relaunch of "The Authority" with writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Ben Abernathy, has said "Simon Coleby ... is definitely on the fast-track to becoming an 'elite' level artist."

James Higham is Professor of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Tourism at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His research interests focus on various aspects of tourism and environmental change.