Michael Cherney completed his Master’s degree in Spring 2011. He completed his Ph.D. in December 2015 with Dan Fisher studying weaning in fossil and recent proboscideans. He currently works for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.

John Fronimos completed his PhD on intervertebral and intravertebral joints in sauropod dinosaurs in December 2015. He is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and Geography at Vassar College.

John Whitlock completed Ph.D. in August 2010. He is an Assistant Professor at Mount Aloysius College.

Lab Alumni

Undergraduate Students

Hannah Rane is an Earth and Environmental Sciences major working on the vertebrae of the high-spined archosaur Spinosuchus caseanus in the vertebrate preparation lab. Here she’s with some Viking vessels in the Stockholm archipelago in her native Sweden.

Takehito Ikejiri completed his Ph.D. in September 2010. He is at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, where he is working on mosasaurs and vertebral fusion in reptiles.

Mike D’Emic completed his Ph.D. in August 2011. He is a Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Adelphi University.

David Vander Weele just completed his degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Winter 2016). His honors thesis examined the cross-sectional geometry of the limb bones of Jobaria.

Kierstin Rosenbach started her PhD research in the Fall of 2016. She is interested in birds, pneumaticity, and pterosaurs. She is describing new pterosaur material from the Upper Cretaceous of Jordan, including a new genus and species. Here she is with an ostrich in the Bird Division of the UMMZ.

Keegan Melstrom earned his BS in Earth & Environmental Sciences in 2012. His Honors Thesis focused on a juvenile specimen of Diplodocus from Dinosaur National Monument, which just appeared in JVP. Keegan is currently a Ph.D. student at University of Utah with Randy Irmis.

Brandon Peecook earned his BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in late 2009. As part of his work here at Michigan, Brandon described tyrannosauroid material from Baja California (published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 2014). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Field Museum.

Taryn O’Connell completed her BS in Earth & Environmental Sciences in 2013. She is currently an environmental educator at Mount Rainier National Park.

Luis Azevedo Rodrigues received his PhD in 2009 from Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. I co-directed his thesis remotely. Luis is a teacher, researcher, and science writer in Algarve, Portugal.

David Hunt finished his Honors Thesis in Earth & Environmental Sciences in 2014 describing new dorsal vertebrae from the Upper Cretaceous of India. He is starting his graduate work in Geographical Information Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Emile Moacdieh completed his Master’s degree in Spring 2014 on cervical vertebra proportions and neck elongation in sauropod dinosaurs. He graduated from the UM School of Education and is now a teacher in his home country, Lebanon.

Danielle Goodvin is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major. She is working on a project measuring airspace proportion pterosaur bones. Here she is holding the humerus of a new pterosaur from Jordan.

Stacy Kaneko is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major and and Earth and Environmental Sciences minor. She is working on microCT scanning the limb bones of a new pterosaur from Jordan. Here, she’s holding one of the jaw elements.

Monique Pérez is an Earth and Environmental Sciences major and a Paleontology Minor. She is working on segmenting microCT scans of pterosaur bones. Here she is holding a partial humerus of a new specimen of the giant pterosaur Arambourgiania from Jordan.

Tariq Abdul Kareem started his masters here at the UMMP in the fall of 2017. His research focuses on new notosuchian material from the Late Cretaceous of India. He is also describing material pertaining to the sauropod Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis from the Early Jurassic of India. Tariq is holding a dorsal centrum of Kotasaurus in the collections of Geological Survey of India (Southern Region) in the photo.