Kevin T. Pickering is Professor of Sedimentology &Stratigraphy in the Department of Earth Sciences at UniversityCollege London, U.K. He has published ~140 peer-reviewed papers,co-authored 6 books and edited 3 books on aspects of deep-watersediments and global environmental issues. He managed theindustry-sponsored Ainsa Project, an integrated outcrop-subsurfacedrilling project to understand deep-marine channels in the SpanishPyrenees, and has sailed on four international scientific drillingexpeditions (DSDP, ODP, IODP). In 2010, in recognition of hisresearch, Pickering was elected as a Fellow of the GeologicalSociety of America. Richard N. Hiscott is an Emeritus Professor at MemorialUniversity of Newfoundland, Canada. His 40 years ofprocess-oriented research covers ancient deep-sea to alluvialfacies of Proterozoic to Cretaceous age, four Ocean DrillingProgram campaigns including Amazon submarine fan, Quaternarysedimentology of the Labrador Sea, Santa Monica Basin, and theBlack Sea region including dynamics of the saline gravity currentthat enters the low-salinity Black Sea through the BosphorusStrait.