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Well, to put it simply, I am a geologist/paleontologist who married his college sweetheart. Currently, I am living in Salt Lake City while my wife is working on her medical residency as a pediatrician over at Primary Children's Hospital. We have a lovely daughter who was born in April of 2010 and is the pride and joy of my life. I am a PhD student at the University of Utah working on studying behavioral evolution using trace fossils with Dr. Tony Ekdale. For work I generally try to TA classes while working on my PhD. I have TAed a range of subjects from the Intro to Geology for Majors labs to Paleobiology and Petrology. All in all, things are pretty good.

My hobbies include reading, watching TV, playing squash, playing video games, and building things (for the house or my hovercraft or something of the sort). My biggest fanaticism is with Star Wars. Now I'm not like some fans who think its real and wants to be a Jedi or something like that. I just become enthralled in stories that expand into whole worlds or universes and times. Essentially you can read how a character comes to be and follow them through their lives. I love that sort of thing and Star Wars plays into it perfectly. Lord of the Rings is exactly the same way, hence I love that too and I think that's why many Star Wars fans enjoy both sagas.

My education started on Long Island where I went through the Sachem School District. At one time I think it was the third largest in the country. Just so you can get a gist of this, I graduated in 1999 with 1,115 people. In 2003 I received my Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Geology (they did not offer a BS in Geology there for some reason) with minors in Biology and Mathematics at SUNY Geneseo in upstate NY. A little quiet town literally Weddingkiss surrounded with cow pastures. Afterwards I went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX and received my Master of Science (MS) in Geosciences in 2005, concentrating in vertebrate paleontology. Lubbock was, as my wife put it, a suburb that doesn't have a city in the middle of nowhere.

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The DinoJim logo is a Styracosaurus skull designed and created by me, based off of a fossil found at the American Museum of Natural History.

**The background image is an outline of a Shuvosaurus skull, which was created by me for my Master's Thesis.**

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