Edward J. Petuch is Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University. His research spans the geology, biostratigraphy, and invertebrate paleontology of the Floridian Peninsula and the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the systematics, ecology, and biogeography of the western Atlantic mollusks (both fossil and recent) and biotic catastrophe and extinction theory, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology.

David P. Berschauer was the Chief Research Editor of the Southwestern Law Review and has published articles in both law and science. He is the Editor of the journal “The Festivus” out of the San Diego Shell Club, now one of the world’s top shell journals/magazines. Mr. Berschauer has been practicing law for over twenty years serving the community in South Orange County.