diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 363be11c95..b0da54660b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ authors = [
   { name="Marisa Lim", orcid="0000-0003-2097-8818" },
   { name="Ricky Lim", orcid="0000-0003-1313-7076" },
   { name="Bradley Nelson", orcid="0009-0001-1553-932X" },
+  { name="R. Todd Morse", orcid="0009-0007-1711-5938" },
   { name="Ivan Ogasawara", orcid="0000-0001-5049-4289" },
   { name="Taylor Reiter", orcid="0000-0002-7388-421X" },
   { name="Camille Scott", orcid="0000-0001-8822-8779" },
diff --git a/src/core/src/index/mod.rs b/src/core/src/index/mod.rs
index 45c0bc5118..1dccd8403c 100644
--- a/src/core/src/index/mod.rs
+++ b/src/core/src/index/mod.rs
@@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ pub trait Index<'a> {
     type Item: Comparable<Self::Item>;
     //type SignatureIterator: Iterator<Item = Self::Item>;
 
-    fn find<F>(&self, search_fn: F, sig: &Self::Item, threshold: f64) -> Result<Vec<&Self::Item>>
+    fn find<F>(
+        &'a self,
+        search_fn: F,
+        sig: &'a Self::Item,
+        threshold: f64,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<&Self::Item>>
     where
         F: Fn(&dyn Comparable<Self::Item>, &Self::Item, f64) -> bool,
     {
@@ -146,8 +151,8 @@ pub trait Index<'a> {
     }
 
     fn search(
-        &self,
-        sig: &Self::Item,
+        &'a self,
+        sig: &'a Self::Item,
         threshold: f64,
         containment: bool,
     ) -> Result<Vec<&Self::Item>> {