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Technical Staff | Curatorial Staff | Affiliated Staff | Graduate Students

Technical Staff

Laura Abraczinskas , Collections Manager 
abraczi1@msu.edu

Paula Hildebrandt , Specimen Preparator 
hildeb16@msu.edu
Robin Bolig, Data Quality Technician
bolig@msu.edu
 

Curatorial Staff

Dr. Michael Gottfried , Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Herpetology, and Ichthyology, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences 
gottfrie@msu.edu
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Dr. Barbara Lundrigan , Curator of Mammalogy & Ornithology, Associate Professor of Zoology 
lundriga@msu.edu
Website

 

Dr. Pamela Rasmussen , Assistant Curator of Mammalogy & Ornithology, Assistant Professor of Zoology
rasmus39@msu.edu
Website
AVoCet: Avian Vocalizations Center

 

Affiliated Staff

James Harding , Wildlife Outreach Specialist, Instructor in Zoology 
hardingj@msu.edu
Website

 

Graduate Students

 

Sheridan Kelley , Department of Zoology
kelley71@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Skull ontogeny and the evolution of the Hyaenidae

 

   
 

Rosa Moscarella , Department of Zoology 
moscarel@msu.edu
Website
Graduate Student/Lundrigan
Genetic consequences of climate change for populations of white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, in the Great Lakes region

 

 

Sifa Ngasala , Department of Geological Sciences 
ngasalas@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried
Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of actinopterygian fishes from the Karoo Basin of southern Africa

 

 

Summer Ostrowski , Department of Geological Sciences 
ostrow42@msu.edu
Graduate Student/Gottfried
Systematic and biogeographic implications of Late Cretaceous teleost fishes from Madagascar