Kevin Downing
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois 60604
USA.

Kevin received his B.S. degrees in Astronomy and Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, a Master’s degree in Geology and Education from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Geoscience and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. His current research interests include the investigation of mammalian faunal sequences from volcanically-active paleoenvironments, the character of small mammal diversity through the middle Miocene global cooling maxima, the record of stratigraphic change during the Himalayan Orogeny, and the application of 3-D multimedia labs for geological instruction in distance learning settings. Kevin spends most of his spare time with his wife Lisa and young sons Alex and Sean, but finds a little time here and there for woodworking as well as songwriting and laying down guitar tracks In his home recording studio.