About The Author

Zachary Klukkert

Zachary Klukkert is a PhD student at the City University of New York Graduate Center, in the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). Klukkert is also a NSS-CDS and PSAI-certified cave diver and Explorers Club grantee for his paleontological research in the underwater caves of the Dominican Republic. Klukkert is a collaborator on the Madagascar paleontology and geoscience research that takes place in the flooded caves of Tsimanampesotse, and is currently the only member of the project who participates in both research and diving operations.