Field Work 
FIELD Projects
May 2007: Kaiparowits Formation, Southern Utah.
Purpose: The Late Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation is a vastly untapped paleontological resource that has previously yielded the associated remains of an avisaurid enantiornithine, the most complete North American enantiornithine known. This bird remains undescribed so the purpose of this field expedetion was to attempt to discover new material. Needless to say, while my team, which consisted of Graduate Students in Residence Zhijie "Jack" Tseng - Mammal expert/Biologist extraordinaire (photo, foreground), two USC Earth Science undergraduates (Abraham Padilla and Glen Fischer; photo back right and left), and three additional volunteers (Jane Mitchell, Yinmai O'Connor, and Mario Giron) did manage to collect a nice sampling of mammals (3+ genera) and theropods (5+ forms) as well as collect some eggshell fragments and a Ceratopsian vertebra, no unequivocal bird material was uncovered.
Field Experience
2011. Mongolia. American Museum of Natural History: 4 weeks collecting in Jurassic-Cretaceous deposits.
2010. Xinjiang, China. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: 3 weeks of field work in the Jurassic Xishugou Formation.
2006. Montana, USA. Dinosaur Expedition. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: one month prospecting in the Hell Creek Formation in Southeastern Montana.
2005.Qinghai, China. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: one month of field work prospecting for mammal fossils in the Tibetan Plateau of Western China.
2003. Inner Mongolia, China. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: 3 weeks of field work in Inner Mongolia collecting mammal fossils and paleomagnetic samples.
2003. Montana, USA. Dinosaur Expedition. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: 2 weeks conducting quarry work on a T. rex called "Thomas" now on display at the Museum.
2003. Colorado Plateau. Occidental College: 2 weeks of paleomagnetic field work from Utah to Nebraska.