Kerin M. Claeson
The Department of Geological Sciences
The Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas USA

Kerin is conducting her PhD in the vertebrate paleontology program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a visiting research fellow at Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin and the Helmholtz Centre Berlin (formerly HMI). She is the active chair of the Student Liaison Committee and serves on the Development Committee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. In addition to studying small catfish, she is interested in lungfish systematics, and her dissertation research is on the ontogeny and systematics of fossil and recent batoid fishes (skates and rays). For more information about Kerin and her research, visit http://bellweb.geo.utexas.edu/~Kerin/