NATURAL SCIENCES - Key Persons

Adrian Smith

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Head, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab
Research and Collections Staff

Albert Ervin

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Director of Guest and Volunteer Services

Andrea Jones - CMO

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Head of Marketing
All Marketing and Advertising Inquiries Should Be Directed to

Beane, Jeffrey

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Collections Manager, Herpetology

Bogan, Arthur

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Research Curator, Mollusks

Bogan, Cynthia

Bogan, Cynthia, J.M. Smith, A.E. Bogan. 2007. Museum of Fluviatile Mollusks Collection Donated to NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. NC Shell Club October Newsletter, p 2.

Braswell, Alvin

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Emeritus Researcher, Hereptology

Brian O'Shea

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Collections Manager, Ornithology
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Brinkman, Paul D.

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Head, Environmental Humanities Research Lab

Brittany Humbert

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Executive Assistant to the Director & HR Liason

Bronwyn W. Williams

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Research and Collections Staff
Research Curator, Non - Molluscan Invertebrates

Weaver, P.G., B.W. Williams. 2016. Observations of false mating behavior in entocytherid ostracods from the northwestern United States. Invertebrate Biology 135:252-258.

Bryan Stuart

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Research and Collections Staff
Research Curator, Herpetology

Cedar Mountain

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Mussentuchit Member
Yellow Cat Member

Charles Yelton

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Director of the Regional Network

Christian Kammerer

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Research and Collections Staff
Research Curator, Paleontology

Cove, Michael

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Research Curator, Mammalogy

Dombrowski, Allison

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Collections Manager, Geology

Dr. Art Bogan

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Research and Collections Staff
Research Curator, Mollusks

Dr. Bob Wiese

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Director of Research & Collections
Director of Research and Collections. Additional Collection - Specific Information Is Provided on the Collections Pages. Thanks!

Dr. Dan Dombrowski

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Director of Veterinary Sciences & Chief Veterinarian

Dr. Lindsay Zanno

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Division Head, Paleontology
Head of Paleontology at the NC Museum
Research and Collections Staff

Dr. Lindsay Zanno is Head of Paleontology at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University where she is part of the Paleobiology and Forensic Anthropology Research Group and Paleobiology Minor . At the museum she oversees the unit's collective research and educational activities, three research collections (Paleobotany, Invertebrate Paleontology, and Vertebrate Paleontology), and directs the on-exhibit Paleontology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center building. Zanno's research interests and methods are broad. Her lab uses morphological data from extinct and living vertebrates to address evolutionary patterns on geologic timescales, with a focus on Mesozoic dinosaurs. Specifically, she is one of the world's leading experts on evolution of theropod dinosaurs-a group that includes the iconic predator T. rex and Velociraptor, as well as living birds. The Zanno Lab works at all scales from detailed anatomical descriptions of newly discovered species to identifying broad macroevolutionary trends. Currently active projects can be organized into the following themes: the evolution of diet and dentition, sexual/social display structures and weaponry; comparative life history and growth; paleobiogeography; extinction/radiation; reproductive paleobiology; and alpha-taxonomy/systematics. The Zanno Lab's methodological approaches encompass advanced visualization technology (laser surface scanning, computed tomography, photogrammetry, 3D printing), histology, phylogenetic comparative methods, and comparative anatomy. An important component of Zanno's research program is exploratory in nature. Her teams typically spend several months a year on expedition collecting fossils of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic vertebrates for scientific research. Goals of the field program are aimed at understanding how changing climate and environmental conditions affected life on land during the Cretaceous. Currently active field projects span the Asian and North American continents and include Mongolia, Thailand, multiple states across the American West from where she has discovered the remains of more than a dozen new species, including Siats , one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on the continent, and Moros , North America's tiniest tyrannosaur. You can follow along with Zanno Lab expeditions on the real-time social media platform- Expedition Live!. Zanno's research is regularly published in high-profile, general science journals including Nature, Nature Communications, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, and Scientific Reports, for which she was awarded top 100 author recognitions in 2016 & 2017. Her work has been recognized as Nature World News' Top Dinosaur Stories, Discover Magazine's top 100 Science Stories, and Discover Magazine's Year in Science Top Research and has been featured by notables such as the Science Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, CBC, PBS, NPR, NHK, Nova, and the BBC, among others. She was recently featured as Science Advocate for the Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular, on-air host for The Ice Age Exhibition, and currently serves as President of The Jurassic Foundation, a non-profit, grant funding organization supporting dinosaur research. She also coordinates several citizen science and STEM education projects including FossilPhiles, a teen citizen science effort to digitize fossils and Shark Tooth Forensics, with Dr. Terry Gates. Zanno's published impact includes 170 technical works and to date, her lab has received over $6M in direct funding for research and education.