The only child makes good
Collaborative Research
This picture includes a shockingly high percentage of the world’s synapsid workers.
Every summer I try to bring people from the Burke Museum to visit Tom Kaye in Wyoming, where we search for Eocene and Cretaceous vertebrates.
Jeff Wilson (R) is an Assistant Professor and Curator at the University of Michigan. We were roommates in grad school at the University of Chicago and have great hopes for a project on the independent origin of large nostrils in extinct reptiles (really).
Robin O’Keefe is an Associate Professor at Marshall University. He was a member of the 2003 team to Niger and found some of the most important fossils. We’re still waiting to see Jack in the field.
Eric Duneman and I did not go to graduate school together, but we were roommates in Chicago and DC. He is money in the field.
Greg Wilson (L) is Assistant Professor of Biology and Adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the UW. He is our resident Mesozoic mammal expert.
Linda Tsuji is a survivor of Dr. Robert Reisz’s Permian paleontology factory -- I mean graduate program -- at the University of Toronto. She’s currently working on her Ph.D. at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is studying parareptiles. We have lots of projects together.
Hans Larsson is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Redpath Museum at McGill University. We’ve worked on some fossil crocodile papers together, as well as fieldwork in Niger in 2003.
Neil Tabor is Associate Professor of Geology at Southern Methodist University. When not talking with his blue-haired friend, he works on paleosol morphology and geochemistry. He and I are PIs on a NSF grant to study the fossils and paleoclimate of central Pangea during the Permian.
Cindy Looy is an Assistant Professor at the University of California. She is taking the lead on the paleobotany portion of our research to study the fossils and paleoclimate of central Pangea during the Permian.
Molly Miller is a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University. We are collaborating on the description and interpretation of trace fossils from the Permian and Triassic of Antarctica.
John Isbell is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Along with Molly Miller, we are working on the geological context of fossils from the Permian and Triassic of Antarctica. Doesn’t he look cozy in there?
Bill Hammer is a Professor of Geology at Augustana College. We are standing under one of his most impressive discoveries, Cryolophosaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic of Antarctica. Bill and I are collaborating on the description and interpretation of new fossils from Antarctica.
This picture shows Ken Angielczyk (L), Seb Steyer (M), and Roger Smith (R), along our Zambian collaborator Kagosi Mwamulowe excavating a large dicynodont skull. We have worked in the Permian and Triassic of Tanzania and Zambia for the past few summers.
