Nathan J. Bellomy is Coordinator for Middle School Institutes at the American Museum of Natural History. He received his BS in Geological Sciences from the Ohio State University in 1999, specializing in invertebrate paleontology. He has worked as an editor for McGraw-Hill science, spoken at the annual conventions of the Association of Science & Technology Centers, and the International Society for Technology in Education, and has been a museum educator for more than 20 years.