S. (Susan) White is a geomorphologist whose research work has been principally in caves and karst areas, and she has been involved in several major commissioned studies of geological karst and cave features in Australia. She has had an interest in geological heritage for many years, especially in the methodology of assessing significance. She is currently a consultant with Wakelin Associates and associated with Environmental Geosciences at La Trobe University where she lectures first year geology. She is the current convenor of the Subcommittee and the convenor of the national GSA Standing Committee on Geological Heritage and co-ordinates the Heritage Matters column in TAG.

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R. L. (Robert) King was the Convenor of the Victorian Subcommittee for over ten years and during this time was responsible for overseeing the preparation of a series of reports that cover a major part of Victoria. His work for many years as a senior government geologist in charge of the geological mapping program for Victoria has given him a detailed knowledge of the state's geology.

R. M. (Lindy) Cochrane is a consultant geologist whose work has included Australian Heritage Commission-funded studies of much of Victoria, and she has also prepared detailed reports for various agencies and groups on individual heritage sites in the state.

M.T. (Mark) Warne is a lecturer within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University (Melbourne Campus). His current research activities include studies on (1) fossil Ostracoda, and (2) late Cenozoic palaeoenvironments and landscape evolution of SE Australia. His geological heritage interests include the conservation of significant fossil sites, and the preservation of geological features that illuminate landscape palaeomorphology.

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K. G. (Ken) Grimes is a consultant geologist / geomorphologist now specialising mainly in karst studies.  He worked with the Geological Mapping section of the Queensland Mines Dept for 20 years (mainly in Mesozoic and Cainozoic rocks) and contributed to two Geological Heritage reports in Queensland.  Since 1990 he has worked as  a consultant while living in western Victoria.  Consultant work has been in documenting cave and karst areas and the Volcanics of western Victoria, preparing interpretation signs and leaflets on geological sites, and environmental reports for quarries and other developments in limestone areas.

E. B. (Bernie) Joyce has worked in geological heritage for thirty years as a member of the Victorian Subcommittee and is its former Convenor. As the former Convener of the Standing Committee for Geological Heritage of the GSA, he secured major grants from the Australian Heritage Commission to run heritage workshops, produce the first report on Australian sites of National and International significance, and a volume on geological heritage methodology. He is the former Chair of the AHC Natural Evaluation Panel (Victoria), and currently a member of the National Trust (Victoria) Landscape Committee. He co-authored the Geology of Victoria 2003 Geomorphology chapter, and is a member / chair of the Geomorphological Reference Committee. Bernie retired in 1996 after 35 years teaching geology and geomorphology at the University of Melbourne. He is now an Honorary Principal Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Earth Sciences. He has worked on the Newer Volcanics of Victoria for 40 years, and is currently studying volcanic landforms of Western Victoria to see what they can tell us about future volcanic eruption risk, and also how best to look after the landscape heritage of the Western Plains, recently declared the Kanawinka UNESCO Global Geopark.

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M. M. (Mel) Mitchell completed a PhD in Earth Science at La Trobe University in 1997. She has been a member of the Geological Heritage Subcommittee of the Geological Society of Australia – Victoria Division since 1998 and has undertaken projects over the Melbourne and Queenscliff 1:250 000 mapsheet areas together with a report of over 600 sites for Melbourne Water. Mel is a co-author of three chapters in the Geology of Victoria published in 2003.

R. (Roger) Pierson is a Research Assistant with the Earth Sciences group at Deakin University. He has strong interests in the Permian glacial landforms of Victoria and studies fossil pollen and spore assemblages remaining from the Permian Period. He is President of the Bacchus Marsh Council Trench Reserve Committee of Management, a volunteer group managing ‘Triassic Park’, a site of geological heritage and ecological importance.

N. J. (Neville) Rosengren is a geomorphologist with detailed practical knowledge of the character, materials and evolution of Victorian landscapes. He has a special interest in coastal, volcanic and mountain geomorphology. He has carried out numerous consultancies for government agencies and the private sector. Over the past 30 years he has completed a number of detailed inventories of sites of geological and geomorphological significance in most regions of Victoria, all of the ACT and parts of the Kosciusko National Park. He is a member of the Victorian Geomorphology Reference Committee of the Department of Primary Industries.

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L.F. (Leon) Costermans is best known for his work on native vegetation in relation to the southeastern Australian environment, but he also has a background in geology and geomorphology. Now retired, he was formerly lecturing in Science Education and Outdoor Education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. He is still active in field investigation and environmental education.

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