Brooke A. Bogan. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2275 Speedway Stop C9000, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Current Address: Department of Museum Research and Collections, Alabama Museum of Natural History, 427 Sixth Avenue, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. babogan@ua.edu.
Brooke Bogan recently completed her Master's degree in the Biology Department at SUNY Fredonia. Her main research interests involve morphology in extinct crustaceans. Past and present projects have focused on interspecific versus intraspecific variation and how to quantify these values. Her career goal is behind-the-scenes of science working in museum environments caring for and digitizing specimens for current and future researchers. She is now a collections manager at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Rowan C. Martindale. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2275 Speedway Stop C9000, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA. (Corresponding author) martindale@jsg.utexas.edu.
Rowan Martindale is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences. Her recent research is primarily focused on Mesozoic and Cenozoic reef paleoecology, exceptional fossilization of marine communities, and the geobiology of carbon cycle perturbation events (e.g. ocean acidification and anoxia in deep time). Her research involves both field and lab work, from large-scale mapping of reef ecosystems to thin section analysis of microfossils.
Rodney M. Feldmann. Department of Earth Sciences, Kent State University, 221 McGilvrey Hall, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA. rfeldman@kent.edu.
Rodney Feldmann is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Kent State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota and has been teaching and researching at KSU for over 65(!) years. His research interests include phylogeny, taxonomy, and classification of decapod crustaceans from the Devonian to Holocene as well as their paleoecology and paleobiogeography.
Carrie E. Schweitzer. Department of Earth Sciences, Kent State University at Stark, 6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720, USA. cschweit@kent.edu.
Carrie Schweitzer is Professor of Earth Sciences at Kent State University at Stark. She received her Ph.D. from Kent State University and has been teaching and researching at KSU for nearly 30 years. Her research interests include phylogeny, taxonomy, and classification of decapod crustaceans from the Devonian to Holocene as well as their paleoecology and paleobiogeography.
A. Drew Muscente. Department of Geology, Cornell College, 600 First Street SW, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 52314, USA. a.d.muscente@gmail.com.
Drew Muscente is an Assistant Professor at Cornell College in Iowa. In general, Drew studies how marine animal communities and their environments changed during critical transitions in the past, namely the origins of eukaryotes and animals as well as the mass extinctions and oceanic anoxic events caused by climate change. Much of this work revolves around exceptional fossils—fossils with remains of ‘soft’ tissues—that were preserved in the unusual environments that developed during these transitions. His research has contributed to our understanding of the extraordinary conditions that existed during the critical transitions and their impacts on communities; the circumstances that allowed for the emergence of complex eukaryotic life and animals on Earth; the processes that control the preservation of fossils/biosignatures; and the effects that extinctions and ecological changes in the present may have on future ecosystems.
