Acknowledgments

The editors are grateful to the Cooperative Extension Service of The Ohio State University for permission to incorporate and release fifteen figures and excerpts under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

The editors thank Anita Walz, Kindred Grey, Julia Westblade, Nya Nesbit, Lillie Tynch, Jess Savage, and their colleagues at Virginia Tech for their time, talent, and expertise.

Anita Walz, Project Coordinator

Anita Walz is Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education, and Scholarly Communication Librarian in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She received her M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked in university, government, school, and international libraries for over 20 years. She is the founder of the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech and the managing editor of over twenty open textbooks adapted or created at Virginia Tech, many of which may be found by visiting https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/70959. She provided assistance with rights-reversion confirmation, licensing, rights, and permissions, project coordination and oversight, and post-production marketing for this book.

Kindred Grey, Production Manager

Kindred Grey is the Graphic Design and Publishing Specialist in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She joined University Libraries after receiving her B.S. in Statistics and Psychology from Virginia Tech in 2020. Kindred has contributed to over twenty open textbooks, providing technical support on layout and design. Her main focus is publishing open textbooks that are visually appealing, accessible, student oriented, and technologically advanced. She led production efforts including accessibility and formatting for the PDF, EPUB, print, and HTML versions of the text.