diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index 2a3b047..4df0786 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-tinytex@v1
 
       - name: Cache R packages
-        uses: actions/cache@v1
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
         if: runner.os != 'Windows'
         with:
           path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ceaaa23..9d2bb37 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Robyn", "Thiessen-Bock", email = "robyn.thiessenbock@gmail.com", role = "ctb"),
   person("Derek", "Strong", email = "dstrong@nceas.ucsb.edu", role = "ctb"),
   person("Rachel", "Sun", email = "rachelsun@ucsb.edu", role = "ctb"),
-  person("Jasmine", "Lai", email = "jasminelai@nceas.ucsb.edu", role = "ctb")
+  person("Jasmine", "Lai", email = "jasminelai@nceas.ucsb.edu", role = "ctb"),
+  person("Justin", "Kadi", email = "jeakadi@nceas.ucsb.edu", role = "ctb")
   )
 Description: A set of utilities for working with the Arctic Data Center 
   (https://arcticdata.io).
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ Imports:
     magrittr,
     methods,
     filelock,
+    raster,
     stringr,
     stringi,
     tools,
@@ -51,13 +53,12 @@ Suggests:
     ncdf4,
     RCurl,
     purrr,
-    raster,
     rmarkdown,
     sf,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     xslt,
     yaml
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 0b9b1f1..4d15410 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ import(EML)
 import(XML)
 import(dataone)
 import(datapack)
+import(raster)
 importFrom(httr,content)
 importFrom(magrittr,'%>%')
 importFrom(methods,"slot<-")
diff --git a/R/eml.R b/R/eml.R
index 84c12d4..b25d4dd 100644
--- a/R/eml.R
+++ b/R/eml.R
@@ -444,13 +444,19 @@ extract_name <- function(x){
   lapply(x, function(x) {
     data.frame(
       firstName = unlist(lapply(x, function(x){head(strsplit(x, split = " ")[[1]], 1)})),
-      lastName = unlist(lapply(x, function(x) {paste(tail(strsplit(x, split = " ")[[1]], -1), collapse = " ")}))
+      lastName = unlist(lapply(x, function(x) {
+          paste(
+            head(
+              tail(
+                strsplit(x, split = " ")[[1]],
+                -1),
+              -1),
+            collapse = " ")
+        }))
     )
   })
 }
 
-
-
 #' Get raster info from a file on disk
 #'
 #' This function populates a spatialRaster element with the
@@ -463,7 +469,7 @@ extract_name <- function(x){
 #' @param coord_name (char) horizCoordSysDef name
 #' @param attributes (dataTable) attributes for raster
 #'
-#'
+#' @import raster
 #' @export
 eml_get_raster_metadata <- function(path, coord_name = NULL, attributes){
 
diff --git a/man/arcticdatautils.Rd b/man/arcticdatautils.Rd
index 5d38fd9..d0a4870 100644
--- a/man/arcticdatautils.Rd
+++ b/man/arcticdatautils.Rd
@@ -2,9 +2,35 @@
 % Please edit documentation in R/arcticdatautils.R
 \docType{package}
 \name{arcticdatautils}
+\alias{arcticdatautils-package}
 \alias{arcticdatautils}
 \title{arcticdatautils: Utilities for the Arctic Data Center}
 \description{
 This package contains code for doing lots of useful stuff that's too specific for the
 dataone package, primarily functions that streamline Arctic Data Center operations.
 }
+\seealso{
+Useful links:
+\itemize{
+  \item \url{https://nceas.github.io/arcticdatautils/}
+  \item Report bugs at \url{https://github.com/NCEAS/arcticdatautils/issues}
+}
+
+}
+\author{
+\strong{Maintainer}: Bryce Mecum \email{mecum@nceas.ucsb.edu}
+
+Other contributors:
+\itemize{
+  \item Matt Jones \email{jones@nceas.ucsb.edu} [contributor]
+  \item Jesse Goldstein \email{jgoldstein@nceas.ucsb.edu} (Maintainer) [contributor]
+  \item Jeanette Clark \email{jclark@nceas.ucsb.edu} (Maintainer) [contributor]
+  \item Dominic Mullen \email{dmullen17@gmail.com} [contributor]
+  \item Emily O'Dean \email{eodean10@gmail.com} [contributor]
+  \item Robyn Thiessen-Bock \email{robyn.thiessenbock@gmail.com} [contributor]
+  \item Derek Strong \email{dstrong@nceas.ucsb.edu} [contributor]
+  \item Rachel Sun \email{rachelsun@ucsb.edu} [contributor]
+  \item Jasmine Lai \email{jasminelai@nceas.ucsb.edu} [contributor]
+}
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_access.R b/tests/testthat/test_access.R
index 8b2f8ba..1651cff 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_access.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_access.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Access rules")
-
 mn <- tryCatch(env_load()$mn, error = function(e) env_load()$mn)
 
 test_that("get_package works for a simple package", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_dataone.R b/tests/testthat/test_dataone.R
index 6caa830..eaa243e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_dataone.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_dataone.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Helpers for the dataone package")
-
 node <- env_load()$mn
 
 test_that("permissions can be checked", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_editing.R b/tests/testthat/test_editing.R
index 8a029ea..6f07b16 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_editing.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_editing.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Editing and managing data packages")
-
 mn <- env_load()$mn
 
 test_that("we can publish an update", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_eml.R b/tests/testthat/test_eml.R
index aa035df..f3634d4 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_eml.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_eml.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("EML")
-
 mn <- env_load()$mn
 
 test_that("a dataTable and otherEntity can be added from a pid", {
@@ -272,9 +270,12 @@ test_that('eml_nsf_to_project generates a valid project section', {
 
 test_that('eml_nsf_to_project handles bad funding numbers gracefully', {
 
-  awards <- c("abcdef", "1203473", "12345")
+  awards <- c("1203473", "12345")
 
-  expect_warning(proj <- eml_nsf_to_project(awards), "this award will not be included in the project section")
+  # test to be sure that missing award numbers generates warning
+  expect_warning(proj <- eml_nsf_to_project(awards), class="warning")
+  # test to be sure that a list with no valid award number generates error
+  expect_error(expect_warning(proj <- eml_nsf_to_project(c("abcdef"))))
 
   me <- list(individualName = list(givenName = "Jeanette", surName = "Clark"))
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_environment.R b/tests/testthat/test_environment.R
index ba42e7a..592ef65 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_environment.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_environment.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Environment")
-
 test_that("can load a simple environment file", {
   x <- yaml::yaml.load_file(system.file("./environment.yml", package = "arcticdatautils"))
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_formats.R b/tests/testthat/test_formats.R
index 3cbb06c..7069daf 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_formats.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_formats.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Formats")
-
 test_that("valid formats are valid and invalid ones are not", {
   expect_true(check_format("text/csv"))
   expect_error(check_format("badformat"))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_helpers.R b/tests/testthat/test_helpers.R
index 7b446fe..b931455 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_helpers.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_helpers.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Helpers")
-
 mn <- env_load()$mn
 
 test_that("a dummy package can be created", {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_packaging.R b/tests/testthat/test_packaging.R
index b65a06b..ce0e415 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_packaging.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_packaging.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Packaging")
-
 test_that("child pids are correctly determined", {
   inventory <- data.frame(pid = c("A", "B", "C"),
                           package = c("PA", "PB", "PC"),
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_sysmeta.R b/tests/testthat/test_sysmeta.R
index 49ab9f3..6e227b8 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_sysmeta.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_sysmeta.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("System metadata")
-
 test_that("the replication policy gets cleared", {
   library(datapack)
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_util.R b/tests/testthat/test_util.R
index 5f0fd2a..853e84e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_util.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_util.R
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-context("Utilities")
-
 test_that("paths can be joined", {
   expect_equal(path_join(""), "")
   expect_equal(path_join(1), "1")