Lauren A. Dennhardt,^* Laura Aldrich-Wolfe,^** Katie L. Black,^*** W. Gaya Shivega,^**** Steven E. Travers<sup>*****,******


*</sup>Lauren Dennhardt received her PhD at North Dakota State University in Botany in 2016. She studied prairie ecology as an assistant professor at Valley City State University. She now works as an invasive plant manager for the Catalina Island Conservancy.
^**Laura Aldrich-Wolfe earned her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University.
^***Katie Black holds a degree in Biology and Environmental Studies (BA) from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She is a master's candidate in the Applied Plant Sciences program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she studies the improvement of cover crop adoption in corn–soybean agroecosystems.
^****W. Gaya Shivega holds a degree in Biology (BA) from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She is an MD candidate in the class of 2021 at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
^*****Corresponding author: steven.travers@ndsu.edu
^******Steven Travers earned his PhD in Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Associate Professor at North Dakota State University.