Fieldwork ExperienceMongolian-American Expedition: Collected Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from multiple Gobi Desert localities with the American Museum of Natural History and Mongolian Academy of Sciences (2015, ~4 weeks)
Chinese Dinosaur Eggs: National Science Foundation International Research Experience for Students trip to Zhejiang Province, China to study dinosaur eggs in collaboration with the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, funded through National Science Foundation grant #0854412 to F. Jackson and D. Varricchio (2010, 2012; ~5 weeks each trip) Modern Bird Nest Taphonomy: Collected taphonomic data on bird nests in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Idaho, travel expenses paid by MSU Department of Earth Sciences and stipend from National Science Foundation grant #0847777 to D.Varricchio (2011, 2012; ~3 weeks total) MSU Paleontology Field Course: Excavated, mapped, and documented the stratigraphic occurrence of dinosaur eggs and small vertebrates at the Late Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Montana (2012, ~2 weeks) MSU Geology Field Course: Stratigraphy and structural geology of southwest Montana and Wyoming (2011, ~5 weeks) Actualistic Taphonomy Research: Documented livestock carcass decomposition on a ranch near Martinsdale, Montana (2009-2013) Hell Creek Project: Museum of the Rockies paleontology field crew volunteer, prospected and excavated at Late Cretaceous sites near Jordan, Montana (2009, ~3 weeks) |
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