Fieldwork
Morrison Formation // Jurassic // Utah
From 2011 to 2016, I volunteered with the Natural History Museum of LA County (LACM), primarily working on the 'Gnatalie' quarry in SW Utah, a dense bonebed of several sauropods with a beautiful (and slightly radioactive) green colouration. My time with the LACM also involved very short excursions on both sides of the time scale - to the Late Triassic of southeastern Utah and to the late Cretaceous of New Mexico. PC: Stephanie Abramowicz (all)
From 2011 to 2016, I volunteered with the Natural History Museum of LA County (LACM), primarily working on the 'Gnatalie' quarry in SW Utah, a dense bonebed of several sauropods with a beautiful (and slightly radioactive) green colouration. My time with the LACM also involved very short excursions on both sides of the time scale - to the Late Triassic of southeastern Utah and to the late Cretaceous of New Mexico. PC: Stephanie Abramowicz (all)
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Chinle Formation // Triassic // Arizona
I started working in the Chinle back in 2013 on the fateful trip with the LACM to Petrified Forest National Park that led to my first temnospondyl find and essentially all subsequent research directions to date. Coincidentally, that trip nearly didn't happen because of the government shutdown that year that shuttered all national parks, and the park reopened just a few days before we planned to come out. I made return trips in 2015 and 2016 with the LACM and was a summer intern from 2016 to 2018, when I found a lot more temnospondyls, approximately enough to balance out with the amount of ones that I destroyed for histological studies. My current lab group makes an annual trip to PEFO in the fall, where they've been excavating an exciting bonebed of shuvosaurids. PC: Haley Singleton (middle left); Kimberly Schoenberger (bottom row).
I started working in the Chinle back in 2013 on the fateful trip with the LACM to Petrified Forest National Park that led to my first temnospondyl find and essentially all subsequent research directions to date. Coincidentally, that trip nearly didn't happen because of the government shutdown that year that shuttered all national parks, and the park reopened just a few days before we planned to come out. I made return trips in 2015 and 2016 with the LACM and was a summer intern from 2016 to 2018, when I found a lot more temnospondyls, approximately enough to balance out with the amount of ones that I destroyed for histological studies. My current lab group makes an annual trip to PEFO in the fall, where they've been excavating an exciting bonebed of shuvosaurids. PC: Haley Singleton (middle left); Kimberly Schoenberger (bottom row).
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Popo Agie Formation // Late Triassic // Wyoming
In 2018, I joined up with a team from the University of Wisconsin Madison / the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum to work on a metoposaurid bonebed that they had discovered a few years back. Came back in 2019 to haul out most of the things that we exposed and couldn't retrieve in 2018. Hopefully many more good years of work (and related research) in the future... PC: Calvin So (left)
In 2018, I joined up with a team from the University of Wisconsin Madison / the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum to work on a metoposaurid bonebed that they had discovered a few years back. Came back in 2019 to haul out most of the things that we exposed and couldn't retrieve in 2018. Hopefully many more good years of work (and related research) in the future... PC: Calvin So (left)
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Full list of fieldwork experiences
- 2022 // September: UWBM Petrified Forest Expedition (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2021 // September: UWBM Petrified Forest Expedition (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2019 // July: UWGM Expedition 2019 (Popo Agie Fm, WY)
- 2018 // July: UWGM Expedition 2018 (Popo Agie Fm, WY)
- 2018 // May – July: Petrified Forest National Park Internship (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2017 // May – July: Petrified Forest National Park Internship (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2016 // May – August: Petrified Forest National Park Internship (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2016 // July: LACM Haaga Dinosaur Expedition 2016 (Morrison Fm / Chinle Fm, UT)
- 2016 // March: LACM Petrified Forest Expedition 2016 (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2015 // July – August: LACM Haaga Dinosaur Expedition 2015 (Morrison Fm, UT)
- 2015 // March: LACM Petrified Forest Expedition 2015 (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2014 // July – August: LACM Haaga Dinosaur Expedition 2014 (Morrison Fm, UT / Kirtland Fm, NM)
- 2013 // October: LACM Petrified Forest Expedition 2013 (Chinle Fm, AZ)
- 2013 // July – August: LACM Holland Dinosaur Expedition 2013 (Morrison Fm, UT)
- 2012 // July – August: LACM Holland Dinosaur Expedition 2012 (Morrison Fm, UT)
- 2011 // July: LACM Holland Dinosaur Expedition 2011 (Morrison Fm, UT)
