About me...66 million years in the making

Hi, I'm Grace and I've been a dino nerd since I was six.

I'm an adoptee raised in Chicago. I began working as a fossil preparator at age eleven in Dr. Paul Sereno's fossil lab at the University of Chicago. At fourteen I began digging dinosaurs in the badlands of Wyoming, USA. Since then I have also participated in a month-long fossil expedition in the Sahara Desert, Niger.

For my undergraduate studies I attended Boston College where I received my environmental geoscience Bsc. While in Boston I conducted research in Dr. Stephanie Pierce's lab at Harvard University. My fourth year thesis was a cranial description of a novel Jurassic sphenodontian in Harvard's collections.

For my palaeobiology Msc I hopped across the pond to the University of Bristol where I studied elephant bird neuroanatomy.

Currently, I'm a PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying avian evolution and morphology in Dr. Daniel Field's research group.

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