Kathleen Deagan is a Distinguished Research Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and adjunct Professor of Anthropology, History and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. She has conducted fieldwork in St. Augustine since 1972, and in the Caribbean since 1979.

Al Woods is the collections manager for historical archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. He oversees the operations of the historical archaeology lab and the collections programs.

Elizabeth Reitz is a zooarchaeologist and Director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History. She has served since 1979 as the project zooarchaeologist for St. Augustine, La Isabela, and Puerto Real, and has published extensively on historic period subsistence adaptations throughout the Spanish colonial world.

Eugene Lyon is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Florida and immediate past director of the St. Augustine Foundation at Flagler College in St. Augustine. He is the leading authority on Pedro Menéndez de Aviles and the history of early Florida colonization. He has served as a project historian for the archaeological programs at the Menéndez fort and campsite in St. Augustine, and for the excavation of sixteenth century St. Augustine in general. He has also done archival research related to the archaeological programs at Puerto Real and La Isabela.

Micheal V. Gannon is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He is a leading authority on colonial Florida history, and has been a long-time historical consultant and administrative collaborator in the archaeology programs at St. Augustine, Puerto Real, La Navidad and La Isabela.

Alan Stahl is a consulting numismatist and historian, and a leading authority in medieval Spanish and Italian numismatics. He has curated the medieval coins and medals at the American Numismatic Society, and has studied and identified the coinage from La Isabela and Concepción de la Vega.

Herschel Shepherd holds the Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Chair in Architectural Preservation in the University of Florida's College of Architecture, and is a leader in Florida's Historic Preservation programs. He has worked with the archaeology program in St. Augustine in architectural restoration and reconstruction since 1970, and has also consulted on architectural stabilization and preservation at La Isabela, Concepción de la Vega and countless sites throughout Florida.

James Quine of Quine Graphics in St. Augustine has photographically documented the archaeological sites and collections from St. Augustine, La Isabela, Concepción de la Vega and Puerto Real. His work illustrates countless archaeological publications, including Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies.

Gifford Waters is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology. He has done fieldwork in St. Augustine and in La Isabela, and is currently doing excavations in St. Augustine to learn more about the interactions among the various Southeastern Indian groups brought together in the missions of St. Augustine in the 17th and 18th centuries.