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Gender	Male
Industry	Science
Occupation	Paleontologist
Location	Hollywood, California, United States
Introduction	I am a paleontologist who works in Los Angeles, California, and my job is great! Somehow, I manage to be a gainfully employed paleontologist without working for a university or a natural history museum (though I do work with them). I work as a scientific consultant, or Mitigation Paleontologist. My day to day work involves finding, excavating and collecting fossils found on construction projects in Los Angeles and many other places in California. I prepare these 'salvaged' fossils in a lab, I research and study them, report the finds to the appropriate agencies, and then deliver them to natural history museums for permanent safe-keeping. In other words, I bridge the gap between the developers whose bulldozers expose fossils 20 feet under the street of your city, the museums that permanently curate those fossils, and the regulatory agencies enforcing the laws that protect our shared natural resources. It's an exciting and engaging field of work and I get the chance to see amazing places and find wonderful things. Follow me on Twitter! I'm nice, honest! @paleeoguy
Interests	anatomy, taphonomy, evolution, paleobiology, mitigation, resource protection, fossils, geology, stratigraphy, tectonics
Favorite movies	Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Star Trek
Favorite music	Film Scores, Muse
Favorite books	Digging Dinosaurs