Editors

Dr. Aldino Bondesan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geosciences, University of Padua. Since 1996 he has been teaching several university courses (Environmental Geology, Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Geological Survey), and has tutored and supervised more than 130 MS and PhD students. He has held positions at various levels both in academic and scientific associations in Italy, organizing conferences and scientific meetings and participating in more than 150 national and international events, and is in charge of the annual glaciological survey (Italian Glaciological Committee) of the Eastern Alps. Dr. Bondesan has developed a specific expertise in the fields of Military Geography and Geology, and has performed research on geomorphology in the plains, glaciology and glacial morphology in the Italian Alps and in polar region, geological mapping, karstology, geoarchaeology, geophysics, coastal dynamics and military geosciences.

Dr. Francis A. Galgano is the founding Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at Villanova University.  Dr. Galgano retired from the U.S. Army in 2007 as a Lieutenant Colonel, after 27 years of service with experience in tank and cavalry units.  He served in numerous locations in the United States, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East; and most recently at the United States Military Academy where he was an Academy Professor and the Director of the Geography Program.  Dr. Galgano is a physical geographer with expertise in coastal geomorphology, military geography, and environmental security.  He has published five books, three physical geography study guides, and more than 30 professional articles focused on geographic, environmental, and military subjects.  In 2011 he published (as co–editor) a book titled Modern Military Geography (Routledge).  He most recently published a new book titled The Environment-Conflict Nexus: Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape (Springer, 2018), which examines the geography of national security from the perspective of climate and environmental change.  Dr. Galgano has been invited to speak on the subject of environmental security at Villanova, West Point, the University of Maryland, Hofstra University, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as by organizations such as the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation and Defense Intelligence Agency (Threat Reduction Program).  He is currently researching topics such as the effects of climate change on regional stability, the use of military lands, ungoverned space, environmental security, and abrupt climate change.  Dr. Galgano is a 1980 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (BS, Biology) and completed his Master of Arts (1989) and Ph.D. (1998) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Edward P. F. (Ted) Rose is an alumnus of Oxford University (1st class honours in geology 1963, followed by a DPhil for a thesis on Libyan fossiliferous limestones 1966) and a former British reserve army officer. He pursued a full-time career lecturing on geology in the University of London, at Bedford College 1966–1985, Royal Holloway 1985–2003, until retiring to an honorary research fellowship at Royal Holloway: his current appointment. He served in the reserve army 1960–1990, 1969–1990 in the Royal Engineers (Volunteers) as a military geologist with brief attachments to British forces worldwide (British regular forces having no geologists who serve as such). The senior geologist with call-out liability within the British Army 1974–1990, he transferred in 1990 into the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, as a colonel. He was an active member of the University of London Military Education Committee 1996–2009, finally as chairman, and served 2013–2017 as founding President of the International Association for Military Geosciences. He has contributed to over 130 journal articles or book chapters on historical aspects of military geology, co-edited three books on this subject for the Geological Society of London, and in 2014 received the Society’s Sue Tyler Friedman Medal for excellence in research into the history of geology.