Paleontological Field Work

Miocene proboscidean graveyard at Montbrook, Levy Co. FL

I am currently co-directing the excavations at the 5.8 million year old Montbrook fossil dig sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History in Levy Co. Florida. The site has produced hundreds of thousands of specimens of Miocene vertebrates from a freshwater ecosystem. The museum has been excavating this site for 10 years now, with the help of over 1000 community volunteers!

Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Ecosystems in India

I've been conducting field work in the western Indian state of Gujarat since 2022 in collaboration with colleagues from IIT Roorkee and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to study  Middle Jurassic dinosaur communities in the Indian Subcontinent with the goal of understanding dinosaur phylogeography and ecosystem change as Gondwana breaks up.

Exploring Late Cretaceous fossil communities in eastern North America

I assisted in the excavation of Campanian sites in New Jersey and Georgia between June 2018 and August 2019, and helped collect microvertebrates for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Dinosaur excavation in Montana

I assisted in the excavation of dinosaur remains from Bureau of Land Management land in Montana for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Latest Cretaceous field work in South India

I assisted a team of paleontologists lead by Dr. Greg Wilson from the University of Washington to excavate vertebrates from latest Cretaceous intertrappean beds from South India.

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Ecological Field Work

Population ecology of amphibians in South Korea

I spent two summers in South Korea (2009 and 2011) conducting common-garden experiments with the frog Bombina orientalis. The goal of this project was to understand variation in phenotypic plasticity between two populations of the frog, and the effect of daily temperature variation on development.