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Sally Walker in Antarctica

Featured Professional: Sally E. Walker

Dec 1, 2016

Editor’s note: This issue we feature Sally E. Walker, a Paleobiologist/Taphonomist in the Department of Geology at the University of Georgia … Continue

Amateur paleontologist Chris Pirrone and Bobby with a small Pliocene baleen whale skull in a plaster jacket, Santa Cruz, CA

Featured Professional: Robert W. Boessenecker

Jul 1, 2016

Editor’s Note: Our featured professional this issue is Robert (Bobby) Boessenecker, a paleontologist at the College of Charleston in Charleston, … Continue

Heather as an undergraduate at the Museum of the Rockies

Featured Paleontologist: Heather Moffat

Mar 1, 2016

Editor’s Note: This issue we feature Heather Moffat, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. When did … Continue

Dena Smith in the field

Featured Paleontologist: Dena M. Smith

Dec 1, 2015

Editor’s note: This issue, Eleanor Gardner posed questions to Dr. Dena Smith. Dena is Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Associate … Continue

Anthony Martin next to a Cretaceous-age (75-million-year-old) fossil soil with many insect trace fossils in central Montana. Photo courtesy of Ruth Schowalter.

Featured Paleontologist: Anthony “Tony” Martin

Sep 1, 2015

Anthony (Tony) J. Martin is based in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University. He did his undergraduate work at … Continue

Julie Meachen

Featured Professional: Julie Meachen

Jun 1, 2015

This issue we focus on Julie Meachen. Julie got interested in paleontology as an undergraduate at the University of Florida! … Continue

Dr. Thomas DeVries, 2015. Puerto Caballas, Eocene outcrop

Featured Paleontologist: Thomas J. DeVries

Mar 1, 2015

Our featured paleontologist is Dr. Thomas DeVries. An invertebrate paleontologist, Tom received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Recently … Continue

Rebecca Hunt-Foster by fossilized tracks

Featured Paleontologist: Rebecca Hunt-Foster

Dec 1, 2014

This issue, we spotlight Rebecca Hunt-Foster, District Paleontologist for Bureau of Land Management Canyon Country District in southeastern Utah. Her … Continue

Paleontologist Bonnie Jacobs posing in front of mountains

Featured Paleontologist: Bonnie Jacobs

Sep 1, 2014

Bonnie Jacobs is a renowned paleobotanist in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences at Southern Methodist University. She … Continue

Photograph of Jorge Velez-Juarbe dressed for fieldwork, with a desert in the background

Featured Paleontologist: Jorge Velez-Juarbe

Jun 1, 2014

This issue, we spotlight Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Curator of Marine Mammals at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He … Continue

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