Sandra Garzon,^1,2,3,*,** Sophie Warny,^1,2,*,*** Philip J. Bart<sup>1,****

1</sup>aLSU Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²bLSU Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
³cSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panama City, Panama

^*Corresponding authors. Email: sgarzol@tigers.lsu.edu; swarny@lsu.edu
^** Sandra Garzon is from Bucaramanga, Colombia. She obtained her bachelor's degree in geology from the Universidad Industrial the Santander in 2007. Sandra worked at the Colombian oil company ECOPETROL for two years as a junior biostratigrapher before coming to the United States in the summer of 2009 to obtain her Master of Science degree from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University. Once at Louisiana State University she worked as educational curatorial assistant for the LSU Museum of Natural Science. Sandra worked as an intern with BP in the summer of 2011 and joined BP full-time in February 2012 based in Houston, Texas.
^*** Sophie Warny is an Assistant Professor of Palynology in the department of Geology and Geophysics & at the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She has a long history with AASP as she won the AASP Student Award in 1996. She received her Ph.D. from the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium working with Dr Jean-Pierre Suc. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Since graduating, she has been working on Antarctic sediments that were acquired via the ANDRILL SMS and the SHALDRIL programs. In 2011, she received the prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her palynological research in Antarctica. Now that she lives in Louisiana, her research focus has expanded to the Gulf of Mexico region and to some other sequences thanks to her students' research interests. In addition to her research, she teaches Historical Geology, Paleobotany, and Micropaleontology. She also manages the education and outreach programs for the Museum. She currently has a research group at the remodeled CENEX facility at LSU (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) that is composed of four master's students and three Ph.D. students.
^**** Philip Bart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Rice University in Houston, working with Dr John Anderson. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001 for his seismic and sequence stratigraphic research in Antarctica. His other research interests consists in evaluating the sequence stratigraphy of the last glacial cycle and the sea-level elevation at the peak of the LGM based on seismic data from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.