Matthew R. Borths. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA; Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA. borths.1@gmail.com
Mathew Borths is a paleontologist whose research focuses on the evolution of carnivorous mammals, particularly hyaenodonts and carnivorans in Africa. Currently he is a U.S. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology at Ohio University in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. He is the co-creator of Past Time , a project that uses a podcast, blog, social media, and virtual classroom visits to to teach non-specialists about the scientific process.
Nancy J. Stevens. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA; Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA. stevensn@ohio.edu
Nancy Stevens is an integrative biologist exploring interactions between organisms and environments through time. She has conducted field research in over a dozen countries, documenting several discoveries new to science, including the oldest fossil evidence of the split between Old World monkeys and apes. Stevens investigates impacts of environmental change through deep time by exploring patterns of biogeography and extinction in the Cenozoic fossil record, particularly in the East African Rift, and she co-leads the Rukwa Rift Basin Project. Stevens also conducts field studies to explore links between form, function and extinction dynamics in modern animals in habitats that are rapidly changing due to anthropogenic and natural environmental change.
