Edwin A. Cadena
Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Balboa, Ancon
Panama
and Senckenberg Museum
Department of Paleoanthropology and Messel Research
603025 Frankfurt
Germany
cadenachelys@gmail.com
Dr. Edwin Cadena is a geologist/vertebrate paleontologist. His research focuses on the evolution of turtles, principally from Central America and Northern South America, as well as patterns of preservation of bone cells in fossil record and their paleobiological and evolutionary implications. He completed an MSc in Geology at the University of Florida in 2009 and a PhD at the North Carolina State University in 2012, and currently is finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Senckenberg museum of Natural History in Frankfurt, Germany.
Carlos A. Jaramillo
Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Balboa, Ancon
Panama
jaramilloc@si.edu
Carlos Jaramillo is a staff scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. His research investigates the causes, patterns, and processes of tropical biodiversity at diverse scales of time and space. He is also interested in Cretaceous-Cenozoic biostratigraphy of low latitudes, developing methods for high-resolution biostratigraphy and the paleobiogeography of Tethys.