2024

I worked as a demonstrator on a week-long undergraduate geology field trip to Dorset in March 2024. This was a great opportunity for the students to contextualize the geologic formations they had been learning about throughout term time.

A Jurassic sea urchin through a hand lens.

Close observation of a cliffside

Sitting on the Lyme Regis beach surrounded by amonites

2022

In November of 2022 I accompanied Paul Sereno and his team on a month-long expedition to Niger to excavate sauropods.

Dusting off the bones of a sauropod. Photograph taken by Keith Ladzinski.

Working into the night. Photograph taken by Keith Ladzinski.

Taking a break relaxing in the articulated neck of a sauropod.

2019

I've been a field assistant for Paul Sereno's Wyoming Fossil Dig from 2014-2019. We have dug up sauropods, stegosaurs, and theropods. This trip is a field course for undergraduate students taking Sereno's Dinosaur Science course at the University of Chicago.

Me posing with a sauropod scapula in 2017.

Working to excavate a trench around our fossil site.

Creating a plaster cast to protect the excavated bones during transport.