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Bob Hollister is the lead PI (primary investigator) of the ITEX-AON project. He has worked in the Arctic at Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) and Atqasuk, Alaska since 1995 when he began as a graduate student under Pat Webber at Michigan State University. Today, Bob leads the Arctic Ecology Program at Grand Valley State University and co-chairs the larger ITEX project.

Craig Tweedie is a biology professor at the University of Texas at el Paso and leader of the Systems Ecology Laboratory. Craig earned his PhD in Antarctic climate change biology before moving to the Arctic realm in 2000 when he began a postdoc position at Michigan State University with Pat Webber. Now, he leads the Systems Ecology Lab at UTEP and runs projects in the Chihuahuan Desert, the Alaskan Arctic, and Indonesia. His work with ITEX-AON focuses on utilizing remote sensing techniques to examine landscape change across tundra ecosystems.

Steve Oberbauer is a biology professor at Florida State University and PI on the ITEX-AON project. Steve began working with ITEX-AON in 1999 using a subset of ITEX plots in Utqiaġvik and Atqasuk to look at the effects of experimental warming on carbon flux. Today, this work continues along with MISP (Mobile Instrumented Systems Platform) systems installed and Utqiaġvik, Atqasuk, and Toolik Lake Field Station sites.