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CURRICULUM VITAE Brenda Joan Chinnery-Allgeier

E-Mail: [email protected]

Education

1995-2002 Ph.D., Functional Anatomy and Evolution Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Thesis title: Morphometric analysis of evolution and growth in the ceratopsian postcranial skeleton. 1991-1995 BA, Physical Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Professional Employment

2007-present Research Scientist, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado. 2007 Scientific Consultant, exhibit Return of the Dino’s: Extreme Makeover, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas. 2004-present Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 2002-present Research Associate, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, . 2002-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. 2001-2002 Teaching Associate, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. 2000-2001 Museum exhibit research and design, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Maryland.

Grants, Awards, and Honors

1999 Research grant, Foundation 1999 Research grant, Paleobiological Fund 1999 Research grant, Geological Society of America 1999 Predoctoral Fellowship, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 1998 Research grant, Sigma Xi 1997 Research grant, Western Interior Paleontological Society 1995-2000 Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1995 General and Departmental honors, University of Colorado, Boulder CO

Research and Field Experience

2006-present Field research of Eocene mammals and lower vertebrates, Wyoming. Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 2004 Field research in the of Texas. Principal Investigator: Rebecca Hunt, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2002-present Postdoctoral research on 3-dimensional laser scanning and morphometric methodology with John Horner, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. 2002 Field research in the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona. Principal Investigator: Sterling Nesbitt, University of Texas, Austin, TX. 2002 Field research in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Principal Investigator: John Horner, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. 1999-present Ongoing collection and research of middle Cretaceous vertebrate in the Moreno Hill Formation of New Mexico. Principal Investigator: Douglas Wolfe, Mesa Museum, Phoenix, AZ. 1996 Field research of Eocene aged mammals, Wyoming. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Rose, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 1995-1996 Research rotation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Dr. David Weishampel consisting of the description and cladistic analysis of a specimen of cerorhynchus. 1995 Research on Mesohippus sp. , under the supervision of Dr. Bert Covert, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. and Dr. Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1995 Field research of Eocene aged mammals, Wyoming. Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1994-1995 Field research of Eocene and Oligocene aged mammals, Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1994-1995 Research assistant to Dr. Richard Stucky, Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1994 Field Paleontology Course through the University of Colorado, Denver, CO., taught by Dr. Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1994 Field research of remains, Canon City, CO. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Carpenter, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1993-1994 Internship under Dr. Ken Carpenter, Paleontological Preparation Laboratory, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO. 1993 Volunteer research assistant to Dr. Peter Robinson, Geology Museum Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Outreach experience

2010 Scientific Seminar: Can We Bring a Dinosaur Back to Life? And Other Questions that Paleontologists are Asking Today; Odyssey Adult Enrichment Classes, University of Texas, Austin, TX. 2010 Classroom presentation: and Paleontology; all kindergarten classes; Cowan Elementary School, Austin, TX. 2010 Classroom presentation: Dinosaurs and Paleontology; pre-kindergarten classes; The University of Texas Child Development Center, Austin, TX. 2009 Classroom presentation: How Paleontology is done; pre-kindergarten classes; The University of Texas Child Development Center, Austin, TX. 2007 Display booth of fossils, skeletons at Explore UT: Austin’s Biggest Open House, University of Texas, Austin, TX. 2007 Media presentation on sp. for exhibit “Return of the Dino’s: Extreme Makeover”, Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX. 2003 Scientific seminar: What Questions Museum Visitors are Asking Today; to volunteers at the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT. 2002 Scientific seminar: Functional Anatomy; Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX. 2002 Scientific seminar: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX. 2002 Scientific seminar: Department of Geology, College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT.

Publications

2010 Chinnery, B. J. and J. I. Kirkland. An Update on the Paleobiogeography of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs. In M. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, and D. Eberth, eds., New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs, pp. 387-404. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IL. 2010 Miyashita, T., P.J. Currie, and B. Chinnery-Allgeier. First Basal Neoceratopsian from the ( Group) Southern . In M. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, and D. Eberth, eds., New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs, pp. 83-90. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IL. 2010 Wolfe, D., J. I. Kirkland, D. Smith, K. Poole, B. Chinnery-Allgeier and A. McDonald. christopheri; The North American Ceratopsid Sister Reconstructed on the Basis of New Data. In M. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery- Allgeier, and D. Eberth, eds., New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs, pp. 91- 98. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IL. 2007 Chinnery, B. J. and J. R. Horner. A new neoceratopsian dinosaur linking North American and Asian taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27:625-641. 2004 Rose, K. D. and B. J. Chinnery. The postcranial skeleton of early Eocene rodents. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 36:211-244. 2004 Chinnery, B. J. Morphometric analysis of evolutionary trends in the ceratopsian postcranial skeleton. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24:591- 609. 2004 Chinnery, B. J. Description of Prenoceratops piikanis gen. et. Sp. Nov. (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24:572-590. 1998 Chinnery, B. J. and D. B. Weishampel. Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: ) and relationships among basal neoceratopsians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18:569-585. 1998 Chinnery, B. J., T. R. Lipka, J. I. Kirkland, J. M. Parrish, and M. K. Brett- Surman. Neoceratopsian teeth from the Lower to middle Cretaceous of North America. In: Lucas, S. G., J. I. Kirkland and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 14. Pp. 297-302.

Professional Meeting Presentations

2010 Stucky, R., I. Miller, B. Chinnery-Allgeier and B. Dodge. Teen Science Scholars at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Nurturing the Next Generation of Scientific Leaders. 2010 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 October –3 November 2010) Paper No. 181-9. 2009 Chinnery, B. J. and R. Stucky. Diversity of Lower Vertebrates across the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29:77A. 2007 Chinnery, B. J. and J. I. Kirkland. Neoceratopsian biogeography: what’s changed in the last ten . Ceratopsian Symposium Abstracts and Short Papers. 2007 Douglas G. Wolfe, James I. Kirkland, David Smith, Karen Poole, Brenda Chinnery- Allgeier & Andrew McDonald. Zuniceratops christopheri: an update on the North North American ceratopsid sister taxon, Zuni Basin, west-central New Mexico. Ceratopsian Symposium Abstracts and Short Papers. 2007 Chinnery, B. J. Wrap-up and Prospectus. Ceratopsian Symposium Abstracts and Short Papers. 2007 Chinnery, B. J., R. Stucky, and T. Hardy. Comparison of lower vertebrate faunas from the Bridger and Wind River Formations (Early to middle Eocene), Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27:58A. 2003 Chinnery, B. J. and J. R. Horner. New basal neoceratopsian from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana provides a link between Asian and North American taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23:40A. 2002 Chinnery, B. J. Morphometric analysis of evolution and growth in the ceratopsian postcranial skeleton. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:43A. 2000 Chinnery, B. J. and K. D. Rose. Early Eocene rodent postcrania from the Willwood Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20:35A. 1999 Chinnery, B. J. and D. Trexler. The first bone bed occurrence of a basal neoceratopsian, with new information on the skull morphology of Leptoceratops. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:38A. 1998 Chinnery, B. J. and R. E. Chapman. A morphometric study of the ceratopsid postcranial skeleton. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18:33A. 1998 Chinnery, B. J., D. G. Wolfe, J. I. Kirkland. A new consideration of neoceratopsian biogeography. The Dinofest Symposium Abstract volume, Pg. 7. 1996 Chinnery, B. J. and D. B. Weishampel. Montanoceratops cerorhynchus and the question of monophyly of the basal neoceratopsians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:27A.

Professional Society Memberships

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Invited reviewer

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Journal of Paleontology Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Acta Palaeontologica Polonica PLoS One

Advisor

D. B. Weishampel

Teaching Experience

2004-present Lecturer, Introduction to Biology II for biology majors and non majors biology courses including Heredity, Evolution and Society, Molecules to Organisms, and Ecology, Evolution and Society. School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin. 2002 Teaching Assistant, Comparative Anatomy, Montana State University, Bozeman. 2002 Teaching Associate and one-on-one instruction, Human Gross Anatomy, medical school and graduate level, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. 2002 Teaching Aid and one-on-one instruction, Human Gross Anatomy, dental school level, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. 1999 Teaching Assistant, Human Gross Anatomy, undergraduate level, Johns Hopkins University. Course number 020.375. 1999 Guest Lecturer, Dinosaurs course, undergraduate level, Johns Hopkins University. 1998, 1999 Teaching Assistant, Human Gross Anatomy, medical school and graduate level, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Course number ME 110.601.