Luis A. Buatois
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2,
Canada

Luis Buatois specializes on paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic aspects of ichnology. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, where he also obtained his PhD. He has been a postdoc at the Kansas Geological Survey and a researcher at the Argentinean Research Council. At present, he is a Full Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Luis is President of the International Ichnological Association and Vice-President of the International Palaeontological Association. He has done field and subsurface work in many different places of the world, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Canada, United States, Spain, Romania, China, Australia, South Africa, Namibia and Antarctica. He has published or edited seven books and is the author of about a hundred and fifty scientific papers.