T.I. Astrop
Program in Integrated Bioscience
Department of Biology
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio
USA

Timothy Astrop is a PhD candidate in the Integrated Bioscience program at the University of Akron, investigating the biology and palaeobiology of sexual systems in Branchiopod crustaceans over evolutionary timescales. Astrop earned a BSc (Hons) in Biology from The University of Northampton in 2005, and also holds an MSc (DIC) from Imperial College London (2007), where he conducted systematic and morphometric research on fossil decapods crustaceans.

L.E. Park
Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope Laboratory
University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325
USA

Lisa Park (Boush) is currently working at the National Science Foundation as a Program Officer in Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology program (SGP) within the Earth Science Division (EAR) in the Geoscience Directorate (GEO). In addition to serving at the National Science Foundation, she is a Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at the University of Akron. Her research uses the microcrustacean group Ostracoda as a biological proxy to examine diverse questions related to paleoecology, taphonomy, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and biological response to climate change. Through this interdisciplinary approach, Park and her colleagues and students have been able to investigate climate and environmental change across the globe and in many different settings. She also runs an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory (ESEM).

B. Brown
Department of Biology
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-3908
USA

Bryan Brown is a recent graduate in biology at the University of Akron.

S.C. Weeks
Program in Integrated Biosciences
Department of Biology
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-3908
USA

Stephen Weeks earned a B.A. in Aquatic Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983, an M.A. in Biology from the University of California, Riverside in 1986, conducting research on the ecological ramifications of different breeding systems in branchiopod crustaceans and a Ph.D., working with Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek, again researching the ecological effects of sexual relative to asexual reproduction, this time in live-bearing fish (Poecillidae at Rutgers University in New Jersey for my in 1991. Weeks also completed a short-term post-doc (1991) at Pennsylvania State University, in the Anthropology Department, studying the evolution of aging and a second post-doc at the Savannah River Ecology lab (run through the University of Georgia, Athens) from 1992-1994, working with Dr. Gary Meffe on life history evolution in another live-bearing fish (Gambusia affinis).Weeks is currently a Professor of Biology at the University of Akron, a position he has held since1994.