Meet the editors

Iqbal Ahmed, Ph.D., is currently working at the Center of Excellence in Desalination Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He graduated from the Centre of Hydrogen Energy (ChE), University of Technology Malaysia and has more than sixteen years of research and teaching experience in the field of chemical engineering. Dr. Ahmed specializes in microwave synthesized

materials and membrane technology (fabrication to application). He has authored more than sixty journal articles and fifty research papers in a variety of journals and international conferences. He has also contributed more than six book chapters.

Kevin Summers is a Senior Research Ecologist at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division. At present, he is working with colleagues in the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Program to develop an index of community resilience to natural hazards, an index of human well-being that can be related to changes in the ecosystem, social and economic services, and a community sustain-

ability tool for communities with populations less than 40,000. He leads research efforts for indicator and indices development. Dr. Summers is a systems ecologist and began his career at the EPA in 1989 and has worked in various programs and capacities. This includes leading the National Coastal Assessment in collaboration with the Office of Water culminating in the award-winning National Coastal Condition Report series (four volumes between 2001 and 2012), which integrates water quality, sediment quality, habitat, and biological data to assess the ecosystem condition of the estuaries of the United States. He was acting National Program Director for Ecology for the EPA between 2004 and 2006. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports and has received many awards for technical accomplishments from the EPA and outside the agency. Dr. Summers holds a BA in Zoology and Psychology, an MA in Ecology, and Ph.D. in Systems Ecology/Biology.
