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Full Time Permanent Staff

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Full Time Permanent Staff

Clint after successfully flipping a giant jacket

Clint Boyd, PhD

Senior Paleontologist

Becky at the Medora dig site

Paleontogist / Lab Manager

Jeff at the Medora site

Paleontologist / Collections Manager

Cathy at a microscope

Paleontologist / Fossil Technician

Part-Time / Temporary Staff

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Part-Time / Temporary Staff

John sitting on a rock by a creek

John Hoganson, PhD

Paleontologist Emeritus

Mindy working hard in the lab

Mindy Householder

Part-Time Preparator

Trissa pausing her work on a Bison skeleton

Part-Time Preparator

Jennifer labeling specimens in Collections

Jennifer Miller

Collections Assistant

Past Interns / Staff

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Past Interns / Staff

2025 Collections Intern

2025 Field Intern

Kale sporting plaster covered hands

2024 Field Intern

Hannah organizing the Medora collection

2024 Collections Intern, 2023 Field Intern

Professional photo of Eugene Barnes

2023 Collections Intern

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Kelsey walking in the field

2022 Intern, 2020 Collections Intern

Abby cheering at a successful jacket flip

2022 Field Intern, 2023-2024 Past Preparator

Alyssa pointing at fossil in situ

2021 Field Intern

Intern Hayley Orlowski holds a brush in hand at the Bismarck dinosaur site

Hayley Orlowski

2020 Field Intern

Alex holds champsosaur bones from the Medora site

2019 Intern

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Jessica working at the Bismarck dinosaur site

Jessica Appledorn

2017 Field Intern

Sean pointing at the KPg boundary

2016, 2015, 2014 Intern

Sam digging out a turtle in the Golden Valley

2013 Field Intern

Amanda sitting near a microscope

Past-preparator

Amy working in the lab

Amy Sakariassen

Past-preparator

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Nori the Mosasaur

Nori the Mosasaur

Part-Time Outreach