The Team

Read about the team members.

Photo of the expedition team

The Expedition Team

On ladder: Luis Chiappe
Standing (from left to right): Lowell Dingus, Osvaldo Dilorio,
Marilyn Fox, Julia Clarke, Paul Sweet, Susan Zetkus
Kneeling (from left to right): Natalia Kaiselburd, Javier Guevara, Carl Mehling
Not shown: Rodolfo Coria, Pablo Puerta, Sergio Saldivia, Sara Bertelli

Generous support was provided for the field trip by the National Geographic Society, the InfoQuest Foundation, and the Dirección General de Cultura (Gobernación de la Provincia del Nenquén, Argentina).

Dr. Luis Chiappe
© 1998 Luis Chiappe

Luis M. Chiappe, Ph.D.

Dr. Chiappe is a Research Associate in the Departments of Ornithology and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. He has studied the origin and early evolution of birds for nearly 15 years. He has also conducted research on non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and fossil crocodilians, and has done extensive field work in Patagonia and Mongolia (Gobi Desert). He was a J. S. Guggenheim Fellow in 1996, and has been published in Nature, Science, Scientific American, National Geographic, and Natural History magazines.

Dr. Lowell Dingus
© 1998 Luis Chiappe

Lowell Dingus, Ph.D.

Dr. Dingus directed the American Museum of Natural History's fossil hall renovation and served as head geologist on the Museum's Gobi Desert expeditions. He has also overseen the creation of numerous Museum exhibitions, several of which have won awards. His recent books include Next of Kin andWhat Color Is That Dinosaur? He has also co-authored The Mistaken Extinction, and Searching for Velociraptor, and Discovering Dinosaurs, which won a Scientific American Young Readers Book Award.

Osvaldo Dilorio
Argentine entomologist and fossil aficionado. He researches the biology of long-horn beetles.

Marilyn Fox
Fossil preparator at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven. Marilyn has painstakingly prepared the fossilized embryos from Auca Mahuevo.

Julia Clarke
Graduate student at Yale University. She studies the evolution of extinct giant birds and of other fossil birds.

Paul Sweet
Scientific assistant in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History and an avid birder.

Susan Zetkus
Volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History. She specializes in VIP tours of the Museum's exhibition halls.

Natalia Kaiselburd
Undergraduate student at the Universidad de LA PLATA in Argentina. She pursues a career as a paleontologist.

Javier Guevara
Undergraduate student of Geology at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina.

Carl Mehling
Scientific assistant in the Department of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History and the team member who found the first egg.

Rodolfo Coria
Argentine co-leader of the expedition and dinosaur paleontologist.

Pablo Puerta
Argentine fossil preparator and renowned fossil hunter.

Sergio Saldivia
Preparator at the Carmén Funes Museum in Argentina.

Sara Bertelli
Argentine graduate student pursuing her doctorate on the evolution of tinamous.

Related Web Sites

National Geographic Society:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/

InfoQuest:
http://www.infoq.org/discoveries/patagonia/index.htm