Erin Leckey
Department of Geological Sciences
UCB 399
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399
USA 

Erin Leckey is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  Her research interests involve exploring the ways in which plants and animals interact with each other and how those interactions change over geologic time.  Her current work examines the evolution of patterns of herbivory the leaves of western oaks throughout the Neogene, in which she enjoys mixing paleo- and modern ecological methods.  She grew up in Portland, OR and is a graduate of Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Erin thinks that the best part about being a scientist is getting to share the exploration of the natural world with other people. 

Dillon Leckey is 3.25 years old, and enjoys activities that allow him to expend large amounts of energy and/or pretend to blow things up.  He is very curious about animal behavior and enjoys conducting experiments to better understand what kinds of poking make his dogs the maddest.  He loves collecting and playing with racecars and anticipates a career engineering vehicles for racecar transport.  His portfolio currently includes a number of projects involving mobile garages, rocket ships and sailboats.  Otherwise, he would like to be the drummer for AC/DC.