Martín de los Reyes
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n (1900)
La Plata, Buenos Aires
Argentina
Martín de los Reyes is an advanced student in Biology at the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata). Currently, he manages the paleontological rescue of fossil remains at “Cementos Avellaneda S.A”. He also worked at the Museo de La Plata since 2010. In the last 5 years, he participated in 29 scientific publications. He has a large field experience in the Neogene deposits of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
Daniel Poiré
CIG de Investigaciones Geológicas
UNLP-CONICET
Calle 1 Nº 644
1900 La Plata
Argentina
Daniel Gustavo Poiré was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1953. He degree in Geology in 1979 and he has got the PhD Diploma in Natural Sciences (Geology) in 1987, both at the National University of La Plata. Then, he performed a postdoctoral experience at The University of Liverpool, UK, supervised by T. Peter Crimes. He was the first Chief Editor of the Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis (LAJSBA) for the Argentine Association of Sedimentology. Now he is Full Professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) and Independent Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) at the Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas (UNLP-CONICET). His main interests are modern and ancient organic sedimentary structures (trace fossils, stromatolites and microbial mats) and general sedimentology. He has actively collaborated with geologists and microbiologists in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, England, Wales, Denmark, South Africa and USA, and has been involved in numerous published papers and several books. He has lectured several postgraduate courses about sedeimentological significance of trace fossils and stromatolites in Argentina universities and in the University of Barcelona (Spain).
Leopoldo Soibelzon
División Paleontología de Vertebrados
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP)
Paseo del Bosque s/n
1900, La Plata
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Leopoldo Hector Soibelzon was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1969. He obtained his degree in Biology (Zoology) in 1997 and he has got the PhD Diploma in Natural Sciences (Paleontology) in 2002, both at the National University of La Plata. Then, he performed a postdoctoral experience at the same university. Now he is Assistant Professor of Mastozoology at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) and Adjunct Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) at Museo de La Plata (UNLP). Also, he is a Research Associate at Center for Excellence in Paleontology of East Tennessee State University (USA) and Mastozoology Lab. at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). His main interests are modern and quaternary mammals, especially carnivores. He has actively collaborated with Quaternary geologists and paleontologist in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Germany and USA, and has been involved in numerous research projects, published papers and several books.
Alfredo E. Zurita
Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL-CONICET) y Universidad Nacional delNordeste
Ruta 5, km. 2,5, 3400
CC 128 Corrientes
Argentina
Alfredo Zurita was born in Presidencia Roque Saénz Peña, Chaco, Argentina in 1974. He degree in Biology in 2000 and he gas got the PhD diploma in 2007 at the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Currently, he is Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste and Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). His main field of research involves the anatomical and systematic study of the Xenarthra Glyptodontidae, actively collaborated with numerous paleontologists of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and United States. He has been involved in numerous research projects and published papers, especially in those concerning Xenarthra Glyptodontidae.
M.J. Arrouy
CIG de Investigaciones Geológicas
UNLP-CONICET
Calle 1 Nº 644
1900 La Plata
Argentina
María Julia Arrouy was born in Azul, Argentina, in 1981. She has got Degree in Geology in 2008 from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She is a PH.D. student in the UNLP and receiving fellowship of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and Cementos Avellaneda S.A., at the Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas (UNLP-CONICET). She is also Teaching Assistant of the Sedimentology course at the UNLP.
