R. J. Uncles has worked on estuarine and coastal projects at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and overseas since gaining a PhD in Physics from Imperial College, London (1972) and has published numerous research articles. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and was President of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) between 2009 and 2012.
S. B. Mitchell lectures at the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth, having gained a PhD in civil engineering at the University of Birmingham in 1998. He serves as editor-in-chief for the Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science journal and is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Results of his extensive estuarine and coastal field work have been published widely.