Steven R. May, Jackson School Museum of Earth History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78758, USA. srmay@utexas.edu
Steve May spent weekends during his high school years volunteering at the vertebrate paleontology department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. From 1979 to 1982 he spent summers working for C. Repenning at the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. He received his M.S. in geology from the University of California at Riverside in 1981 and his Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Arizona in 1985. Steve worked at ExxonMobil as a research geologist from 1985 until he retired in 2014 as Chief Research Geoscientist. In 2014, he joined the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections, The University of Texas at Austin, as a Research Associate. Steve is interested in the history of Neogene mammals and implications for biogeography and paleoenvironments.
Matthew A. Brown, Jackson School Museum of Earth History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78758, USA. matthewbrown@utexas.edu
Matthew Brown is director of the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School Museum of Earth History. He studies the impact of field and preparation methods on fossil data in specimen-based research, and teaches graduate courses on museology and laboratory methods. He worked at the University of Chicago, The Field Museum of Natural History, and Petrified Forest National Park before joining the University of Texas in 2009. He holds an M.Sc. from the University of Leicester.
