Researchers
Postdoctoral Researchers
Daniel Vidal
About
Dan, member of 2018, 2019 and 2022 Expeditions to Niger, has focused on sauropod evolution and methods for reconstructing skeletons and estimating functional capacities based on living analogs. This cutting-edge work involves stereo-photogrammetry, CT-imaging and animation. Dan is familiar with sauropod collections worldwide and is critical to field and research teams.
Publications
Coming soon.
Evan Saitta
About
Evan, who has extensive field experience in the US and abroad as well as a doctorate in geology, is focused on understanding soft tissue preservation in fossils, feather evolution, and sexual selection in the fossil record. With expertise from years spent in geology, chemistry and molecular biology labs, Evan is in the perfect position to solve the sedimentological and geochemical riddles posed by dinosaur “mummification.” Visit Evan's blog for more.
Evan's Publications: google scholar
Research Affiliates
Stephanie Baumgart
A life-long lover of dinosaurs, Stephanie began learning fossil preparation in Dr. Paul Sereno’s lab during the summer of her second year of undergraduate study. She continued working for Dr. Sereno as a teaching assistant for both of his classes and conducting research on pneumaticity in pterosaurs and birds for her honors thesis at the University of Chicago. She has also worked as a field assistant for several of Dr. Sereno's Dinosaur Science expeditions to Wyoming and joined his Niger 2018 and 2022 expeditions. In 2021, she completed a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at the University of Chicago focused on the morphology and evolution of the avian flight apparatus in relation to ecology and function. She aims to compare morphological adaptations for vertebrate flight to address how pterosaurs might have evolved to body sizes so much larger than those of birds and bats today. Stephanie is now a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Emma Schachner's lab at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, studying morphology and evolution of the avian respiratory system, focusing on postcranial skeletal pneumaticity. Visit Stephanie's website for more or visit Stephanie's google scholar page. Raina DeVries
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