Sally has fond early childhood memories of playing in mud which continues to this day (she is pictured with her favorite device: “Patrick's Guillotine” specifically designed to core marsh sediments). She was born in the oil fields of Ventura, California. She received her B.A. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include burial processes, ecological stasis in modern and fossil Caribbean molluscs and their epi- and endobionts, taphonomy of outer shelf to deep-sea gastropods, and the paleoecology of terrestrial gastropods.