**Meet the editors**

Editor, Dr. Steven Silvern is an Associate Professor of Geography at Salem State University where he is teaching. His research interests focus on indigenous peoples, environmental sustainability, and sustainable food systems in the United States and the Middle East. He has studied and written about the complex political and cultural geographies of Native American sovereignty

and hunting and fishing treaty rights. His most recent research has centered on the development of local and regional food systems in Northeastern North America. Dr. Silvern's research has appeared in journals such as Political Geography, Historical Geography, American Indian Culture and Research Journal and recently in Food: An Atlas (2013). Dr. Silvern is the editor of The Northeastern Geographer: Journal of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (a regional division of the Association of American Geographers), an annual peer-reviewed publication. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.A. in geography from the University of Illinois-Urbana and a B.A. in biology from Clark University.

Co-Editor, Professor Stephen Young is a former chair of the Department of Geography at Salem State University where he focused on remote sensing, vegetation change and the geography of Asia. His recent work has centered on environmental change in NE North America, the mapping of lands vulnerable to sea level rise, and nature conservation in China. Dr. Young's research has

appeared in journals such as: Biological Conservation, Biotropica, Forest Ecology & Management, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, Mountain Research and Development, and Vegetation. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University, a master's degree in environmental science from Yale University and a B.A. in environmental studies from the University of Vermont. In addition to his environmental research, he bridges the arts and sciences through art gallery exhibitions which expose the public to science and geography. His exhibition, The Earth Exposed, has been displayed in over a dozen galleries including the headquarters of the National Science Foundation as well as being displayed in Australia and Tunisia.
