Robert A. Martin. Department of Biological Sciences, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky 42071, USA. rmartin@murraystate.edu
Robert Martin earned a BA in Biology from Hofstra University (1965), MA in Biology from Tulane University (1967) and PhD in Zoology from the University of Florida (1969), the latter working with Dave Webb. He has taught at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Berry College, and Murray State University. He retired from teaching in 2013. His primary research interests include late Cenozoic rodent evolution and phylogeny, rodent community ecology and mammal body size evolution. He has done fieldwork in Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and southern Spain. Robert developed and continues to participate in the Meade Basin Rodent Project, a long-term project designed to examine rodent species turnover in southwestern Kansas and northwestern Oklahoma over the past 5 million years. He also contributes on arvicoline rodent taxonomy and phylogeny to a research team working in the Guadix-Baza basin of southern Spain.
Thomas S. Kelly. Research Associate, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA. tom@tskelly.gardnerville.nv.us
Thomas Kelly received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in Biology from the California State University at Northridge (1968 and 1969) and a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the University of California at Davis (1973). He did postgraduate research concentrating on the phylogenetic systematics of heteromyid rodents with Dr. Robert L. Rudd of the Department of Zoology, University of California, Davis, in 1973-74. Since 1988, Dr. Kelly has been a Research Associate in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and has been working as a consultant for paleontological resource impact mitigation projects in California for the last 33 years. He has written 70 paleontological articles, 51 of which were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has been the author or co-author of a number of new taxa in the paleontological literature, including 10 mammal genera, 37 mammal species and one fish species. His interests are primarily in mammalian systematics and biostratigraphy.
