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A Gruesome Tale of Preparation and Theft (must love pets)

Chamaeleo jacksonii from the pet trade. Frozen lizards courtesy of paleontologist, Sterling Nesbitt. Skeletonized in Chicago, July 2013....

Texas Natural History Collection (Quest)

"Dear TMNH# 64380, It's an honor and a privilege to be dissecting you in the lab this week. I visit your webpage all the time. I'm one...

Got Grant! -> California Academy of Sci.

Hello San Fransisco! Collecting more monitor lizard hyoid thesis data via a Charles Stearns Grant in Aid for Herpetology. What a...

Enter, the Dragon (Field Museum)

Examining as many monitor lizard species and individuals as I can for my thesis. Anatomical target-> The hyoid apparatus. This, in case...

University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (Quest)

I was lucky enough to add an outgroup to my monitor-lizard-hyoid-project sample while on a snake hunting trip in Trinidad. Why was I in...

Travels in Guyana

Just for fun, no business here.... Three pals decided to disappear into one of the massive tracts of pristine rainforest systems that...

DIY Digital Anatomy Quiz

Gearing up for an exam? One way to prepare for someone else's gauntlet is to first design your own. Creating your own anatomy quiz is...

Museum Outreach: SE Louisiana Univ.

Homecoming, 2013 Hey! Hey you! Want to hold a whale vertebra? Touch an otter? Compare a cobra to a rattlesnake? Ask us how we got here?...

From Intern to Collection Manager

Begin Chapter : Southeastern Louisiana University / Curatorial Assistantship / Master's Degree Goodbye Windy City! Helloooo Deep South...

Final Days at the Field Museum

The time for me to leave Chicago is approaching. Chicago... a city that used to irritate me but that I've come to love. I moved here...

Doing Science in a Place That Inspired Mee to Love Science

Some of my earliest memories are set in the exhibit halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY. Looking up at the...

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