c(
    person(c("Sean", "C."), "Anderson", , "sean@seananderson.ca",
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9563-1937")),
    person(c("Eric", "J."), "Ward", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4359-0296")),
    person(c("Philina", "A."), "English", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2992-6782")),
    person(c("Lewis", "A.", "K."), "Barnett", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9381-8375")),
    person(c("James", "T."), "Thorson", role = c("aut", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7415-1010", "VAST author")),
    person("Joe", "Watson", role = "ctb", comment = "Censored Poisson"),
    person("Julia", "Indivero", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5310-9542", "Vignette writing")),
    person(c("Jillian", "C."), "Dunic", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0729-3083")),
    person("Joseph", "Barss", role = "ctb"),
    person(c("Cole", "C."), "Monnahan", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0871-6700", "VAST contributor")),
    person("Mollie", "Brooks", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6963-8326", "glmmTMB author")),
    person("Ben", "Bolker", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2127-0443", "glmmTMB author")),
    person("Kasper", "Kristensen", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "TMB/glmmTMB author"),
    person("Martin", "Maechler", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8685-9910", "glmmTMB author")),
    person("Arni", "Magnusson", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2769-6741", "glmmTMB author")),
    person(c("Hans", "J."), "Skaug", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "glmmTMB author, SPDE barrier"),
    person("Anders", "Nielsen", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9683-9262", "glmmTMB author")),
    person("Casper", "Berg", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3812-5269", "glmmTMB author")),
    person("Koen", "van Bentham", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "glmmTMB author"),
    person(c("Olav", "Nikolai"), "Breivik", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "SPDE barrier"),
    person("Simon", "Wood", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "mgcv: smoother prediction"),
    person("Paul-Christian", "Bürkner", role = c("ctb", "cph"),
           comment = "brms: smoother matrix parsing"),
    person(paste("His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by",
           "the Minister of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans"),
           role = "cph")
  )