Cary Woodruff

I am the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, Florida, and I specialize on sauropods of the Morrison Formation. In particular, I am interested in sauropod ontogeny (changes in the skeleton as the animals grew up), and I use a combination of morphology (shape of the skeletal features) and osteohistology (microscopic anatomy of the bones) to document not only how old an animal was when it died, but when various changes in the shapes of the bones occurred in life. Documenting when and why such changes occurred can help us better understand the life histories of these remarkable terrestrial titans.

Andrew Moore

I am evolutionary anatomist at Stony Brook University that studies the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs and their living cousins, birds. My lab uses a diverse toolkit to reconstruct the phylogeny of these groups and to test hypotheses about the evolution of the axial skeleton and the soft tissues that shape it. I am particularly interested in the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids, diplodocoids, and other sauropods, and in characterizing the macroevolutionary shifts in scaling that produced their remarkable body plans.

Tom T.P. van der Linden

I am a research associate at the Oertijdmuseum, the Netherlands, specializing on sauropods, primarily diplodocoids, and dinosaur eggs and the evolution of reproductive strategies in Archosauria. Through studying new specimens and their biogeography, we can learn so much more about the iconic sauropod group including Diplodocus and Apatosaurus.

Emanuel Tschopp

I am a vertebrate paleontologist at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, specializing on sauropods from the Morrison Formation. During my PhD I have created a specimen-level phylogenetic matrix of diplodocid sauropods to reassess taxonomy and systematics of this clade. One of the results was that we considered Brontosaurus valid again, after more than 100 years of oblivion. It’s now 10 years since publication of that study and time to check all that with new data and new exciting specimens.

Colin Boisvert

I am a PhD Student at the Oklahoma State University Center of Health Sciences studying theropods. I have conducted some research on Haplocanthosaurus in the past and did my masters at BYU on sauropod neck biomechanics, working with an apatosaurine specimen. I have loved dinosaurs since I was a little boy and decided I wanted to become a paleontologist. I love field work and am fascinated by questions such as how so many large-bodied sauropods lived in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. I believe studying dinosaurs is important as they are an excellent case study group to explore the extremes of evolution, responses to climate change, and extinction events.

John Whitlock

I'm an Associate Professor in the Dept of Science and Maths at Mount Aloysius College and a Research Associate at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. I study the systematics and paleoecology of sauropod dinosaurs, specifically the diplodocoids of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. My research focus is currently on investigating the hidden taxonomic diversity these animals by re-evaluating specimens previously collected but not described.