About the Speaker - Steve Miller is a hobby collector and student of the Western Interior Seaway. He has been visiting outcrops of Western Interior Seaway deposits since 2004, and has led field trips for WIPS, the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Association of Materials and Methods in Paleontology, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Steve also provided assistance to the US Geological Survey during the effort to improve data quality for the database of localities for the "Cobban Collection". He developed and presented a website design to illustrate index fossil distribution and related seaway shoreline estimates at the 2016 GSA annual convention. Steve has been a member of WIPS since 2004 and is a past president of WIPS (2013). He and his wife Jo-Anne live in Colorado Springs with their dog Toby, and cats Gabby and Ashley.