We strive for an inclusive and welcoming lab culture that recognizes and encourages individual differences, fosters the constructive expression of ideas, and promotes shared values, such as intellectual curiosity and collegiality. We are committed to the continued development of this community of people, ideas, and approaches through research, education, and public outreach.
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Greg Wilson MantillaPrincipal Investigator
Greg is a Professor in the Department of Biology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Burke Museum. Before joining UW, Greg was a curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (2005–2007). He is an Adjunct Professor in Earth and Space Sciences, a Research Associate at the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the DMNS, and Director of the DIG Field School. For more info, see his interview in The WholeU and his Google Scholar. For more info on UW Paleobiology, see the website.
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Dave DeMar, Jr.Hell Creek Project Collections Manager and Lab ManagerDave earned his PhD in 2015 in the UW Department of Biology. His research focused on the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene Lissamphibia and Squamata of Montana and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships with the Hell Creek Project and later with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He rejoined the Wilson Mantilla Lab in 2022 in his current position.
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Michael HollandHell Creek Project Fossil PreparatorMichael graduated from Montana State University in 1995. He worked at the Museum of the Rockies, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and as an independent contractor preparing, reconstructing, conserving and mounting vertebrate fossils (primarily dinosaurs) for exhibit and research. He began his current position in 2017.
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Brody HovatterGraduate StudentBrody is a PhD candidate in Earth and Space Sciences. He has a B.S. in Biology from UW (2014) and spent several years after as the Wilson Mantilla lab manager. He has extensive experience in curation and field work. His research focuses on early Paleocene (Torrejonian) mammals from northeastern Montana. He investigates the diversity of stem primates and the paleobiogeography of Paleocene mammals, more broadly. He managed the DIG Field School for a number of years.
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Jacqueline SilviriaGraduate StudentJacqueline has a B.S. in Earth Science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology and an M.S. in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of New Mexico (2019). Her previous research focused on the paleobiogeography of early Paleocene mammals. As a third-year PhD candidate in the Earth and Space Sciences, she is focusing on early Paleocene mammal evolution and application of geometric morphometrics in phylogenetic analysis.
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Isiah NewbinsGraduate StudentIsiah received his B.A. in Biology with a minor in Anthropology from Metropolitan State University of Denver (2022). He got his start as a paleontology intern at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has done extensive paleontological field work in Montana and North Dakota. As a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Biology, He is pursuing research on the evolution of mammals from Campanian rocks of the Judith River Formation in central Montana.
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Nina SeltoCuratorial Assistant
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Zeke AugustineCuratorial Assistant
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Ben RotenbergCuratorial Assistant
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David AusmusUndergrad Researcher
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Shay RiceUndergrad Researcher
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Caleb TidwellUndergrad Researcher
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Lab AlumniEdward Armstrong, MS 2024
Kirsten Meltesen, MS 2023 Jordan Ray Claytor, PhD 2023 Paige Wilson Deibel, PhD 2022 Alexandria Brannick, PhD 2021 Luke Weaver, PhD 2021 Dave Grossnickle, Postdoc 2018–2020 Stephanie Smith, PhD 2017 Dave DeMar, Jr., Postdoc 2016–2018 Yue Zhang, Postdoc 2016–2017 Jonathan Calede, PhD 2016 Dave DeMar, Jr., PhD 2016 Lauren DeBey, PhD 2015 Meng Chen, PhD 2015 |
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