Jennifer M. Galloway,^1,*,** Arthur R. Sweet,^1,*** Adam Pugh,^2,**** Claudia J. Schröder-Adams,^2,***** Graeme T. Swindles,^3,****** James W. Haggart,^4,******* Ashton F. Embry<sup>1,********

1</sup>aNatural Resources Canada/Ressource naturelles Canada, Geological Survey of Canada/Commission géolog
²bDepartment of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1A 5B6, Canada
³cSchool of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
⁴dNatural Resources Canada/Ressource naturelles Canada, Geological Survey of Canada/Commission géolog

^*Corresponding author. Email: jennifer.galloway@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
^**JENNIFER GALLOWAY graduated from Queen's University, Kingston in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in Geology from Carleton University in 2006. Jennifer was an NSERC Visiting Fellow at the Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, and joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a biostratigrapher in 2011. Jennifer began working with palynomorphs preserved in Quaternary lacustrine and marine sediments to better understand climate and environmental change of the recent past but has since become interested in geologic time systems and understanding vegetation—climate dynamics in the Mesozoic of Arctic Canada.
^***ARTHUR SWEET specializes in terrestrial spores and pollen as applied to Jurassic, Cretaceous and Early Tertiary biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and sedimentary basin analyses. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. He first worked on Jurassic/Cretaceous coal-bearing strata on joining the Geological Survey of Canada in 1971 and later on latest Cretaceous and Paleogene successions in western and northern Canada. His primary palynological interest is in understanding angiosperm pollen phylogenies towards developing more refined biostratigraphies.
^****ADAM PUGH received a BSc(Hons) degree in Earth Sciences in 2010 from Carleton University, where he is now an M.Sc. candidate using radiolarians to contribute to the understanding of Late Cretaceous time systems and palaeoenvironments of the Canadian High Arctic.
^*****CLAUDIA SCHRÖDER-ADAMS is a professor of Earth Sciences at Carleton University where her research focuses on micropaleontology with special emphasis on foraminifera as paleoenvironmental proxies in basin analysis. She has extensive experience working in Mesozoic basins of Western Canada and the Canadian West Coast. Currently, she is working on assessing a number of sedimentary basins in the Eastern and Western Canadian Arctic to produce a pan-Arctic, multi-fossil, biostratigraphic framework to improve understanding of large-scale paleogeographic reconstructions.
^******GRAEME SWINDLES graduated from Durham University in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in palaeoecology from Queen's University, Belfast in 2006. After working for three years as a lecturer at the University of Bradford, UK, Graeme is now a lecturer in Earth System Dynamics at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include: the causes and nature of Holocene climate change; the use of testate amoebae as environmental indicators; the long-term dynamics of peatland environments; and statistical modelling of microfossil data.
^*******JIM HAGGART received his Ph.D. in Geology from University of California, Davis in 1984, and subsequently came to Canada as an NSERC Visiting Fellow. He joined the Geological Survey of Canada in 1989, where he works as a specialist in Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleontology. In addition, he has undertaken several large-scale geological mapping programs in Canada, including on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the Bowser Basin and Coast Mountains regions of British Columbia. He is presently revising the Cretaceous—Tertiary stratigraphy of Bylot Island, northeast Nunavut, as well as undertaking an assessment of the petroleum potential of these rocks.
^********ASHTON EMBRY received his Ph.D. in stratigraphy from the University of Calgary in 1976 and has worked for the Geological Survey of Canada since 1977. His research has concentrated on the stratigraphy, depositional history and petroleum potential of the Mesozoic succession of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.