Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a Professor of Advertising at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. She is the founding director of the Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) and the co-editor-in-chief of Media Psychology. Her main program of research investigates how immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality transform traditional rules of communication and social interactions, looking at how virtual experiences shape the way that people think, feel, and behave in the physical world.

Ph.D., Parks Recreation, and Tourism Management, Clemson University. Dani studies outdoor recreation and public land management. Dani's research is rooted in her professional background in conservation ecology, policy, and planning, as well as an interest in developing methods that use large secondary datasets and natural language processing.

Professor, School of Nursing, Clemson University. Tracey believes in the power of connecting patients and their caregivers to nature-based virtual reality. As a Nurse Researcher/Nurse Practitioner, she can attest to the critical needs of individuals struggling with serious illness. She is passionate about supporting aspiring students working to improve the quality of life for those with unmet physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.

Dr. Gailey is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Equity in Forestry and Public Health at Michigan State University. Her research draws on epidemiology, psychology, and geography to identify place-based causes of health disparities, particularly among mothers and children. Her current work explores causal effects and underlying mechanisms between greenspace and pregnancy outcomes.

Dr. Vishnu Prabhu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Modeling and Simulation at the University of Central Florida. His primary research interest is data-driven decision-making in healthcare, where he combines human factors and mathematical modeling to improve patient, physician, and system outcomes. He is also passionate about utilizing new technologies (AR, VR, etc.), wearable devices, digital health tools, and non-pharmacological techniques to address pain, anxiety, and mental health issues, and he has conducted multiple clinical trials.

Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. His research focus is conservation social science research and teaching focus on promoting sustainable human-environment interactions and fostering healthy relationships between people, parks, and nature.

Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His primary research focus is on developing novel quantitative spatial analytical approaches associated with geographic information science, spatial data science and remote sensing. Labib applies spatial analytics in health impact modeling to explore the influence of the built and natural environment (e.g., greenspace) on health outcomes.

Kapil Chalil Madathil holds the Wilfred P. Tiencken Endowed Professorship at Clemson University. His area of expertise is in applying the knowledge base of human factors to the design and operation of human-computer systems that involve rich interactions among people and technology. He draws on qualitative and quantitative methodologies including ethnography, contextual inquiry and controlled behavioral experiments to understand how humans perceive, make sense of, and interact with human-machine systems.

A research fellow in the area of environmental psychology and cognitive and clinical neuropsychology. He runs the BEEhive laboratory at Griffith University, which explores the use of the environment as a support in neurorehabilitation.

Post-doctoral Fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology, Duke University. Aaron investigates the interplay of the physical environment with cognitive and mental health across the lifespan. He is particularly interested in the opportunity for exposure to nature (real and virtual) to foster healthy brain and emotional development in children and psychological resilience and enduring mental health in adults.

Alessandro Rigolon is an associate professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. His research focuses on environmental justice issues related to green spaces. His three main areas of research include the policy determinants of green space inequities, the drivers of and solutions to green gentrification, and the associations between green space and health among disadvantaged populations.

Felipe Bertazzo Tobar is an Assistant Professor in the Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management Department at Clemson University. His research interests explore sport's relationship with tourism, heritage, events, politics, and virtual and mixed-reality tools.

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Clemson University. He has focused his research on virtual reality (VR) simulation for patient treatment modalities and student nurse education. He is currently working on research projects involving the use of nature-based VR as a complementary treatment for hospice and palliative care patients.

Assistant Professor, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson University. He is committed to research and the development of evidence-based practices that can contribute to positive health outcomes for individuals with disabilities. His research training and expertise have been shaped by ten years of clinical experience working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and are grounded within a person-centered and strengths-based approach.

Dr. Kailan Sindelar is an Assistant Professor of Technical Writing at the University of North Florida. Her research goals are to better understand and leverage environmental communication in emerging technologies to inform future designs through critical analysis, participant observation, and interviews. Her recent scholarly writing includes an articles and chapters that focus on designing interactive media about wildlife and wilderness. Dr. Sindelar's other recent scholarly work includes collaborating with colleagues in UNF's Biology department to create AR and VR experiences that support local audience education about saltwater intrusions and affected ecologies.

Robert B. Powell is the George B. Hartzog, Jr. Endowed Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management and the Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University and the Director of the Institute for Parks, which is an interdisciplinary institute focused on providing research, training, and outreach to support park and protected area management. His research and outreach program focuses on environmental education, interpretation, park and protected areas, and sustainable tourism and he is the co-editor of the Journal of Interpretation Research.

Dr. Yeager has a background in health geography, greenspace, pollution exposure, and cardiovascular health research. His current work focuses on developing a better understanding of links between greenspace and health and research to maximize the health co-benefits of greenspace interventions for climate adaptation.

Dr. Yuan holds a Ph.D. in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management from Clemson University. He has a background in architecture. His research centers on the physical and social contexts of the environment and human well-being. His dissertation used virtual reality (VR) and eye tracking to examine how the presence of other visitors impacts urban park perceptions. He also used VR interventions for health and coping behaviors (e.g., storm surge mitigation). Shuai is also passionate about visualization, interdisciplinary theory building, and flexible use of methods.

(John Jay High School) is currently researching the effects of a novel personalized virtual reality scene matching algorithm and application on the mental health of astronauts via a general population preliminary study. His research combines the areas of aerospace medicine, virtual nature, and computer science to mitigate the mental health issues associated with long duration social isolation in deep space travel with several additional outside applications.

Mary is an Ossining High School student who wants to determine the role of nature immersion in the process of adapting a stress mindset. Through combining a stress mindset intervention with an immersive nature walk, her research will restore the directed attention of adolescents in high school and thus potentially help adolescents manage their stress more effectively.Description goes here