- Alan Raflo, editor of the Virginia Water Central journal and the voice of Virginia Water Radio
- Jessica Coker, director of the Mountain Lake Conservancy
- Henry Wilbur and Butch Brodie, expert biologists at UVA's Mountain Lake Biological Station
- Pat Calvert, our new Upper James Riverkeeper
- Frits van der Leeden, author of the Water Atlas of Virginia
- Jay Gilliam, the first person I heard say the words "aquatic macroinvertebrates" when I was a kid
- Mike White, dam keeper for Lynchburg's Pedlar Reservoir
- Betty McCracken, conservationist with the Monacan Soil and Water Conservation District
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