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Lee E. Hall, B.Sc. Short Bio Lee Hall began his career in 2000 working for Dr. Jack Horner and the Museum of the Rockies in the Late of eastern . From 2005 to 2011 he served as a Crew Chief for the museum, running research camps and excavating specimens of T. rex, , Edmontosaurus, and other cretaceous vertebrates. In 2011, Hall earned his bachelor's degree in paleontology from the Department of Earth Science at where he studied under Dr. David Varricchio as a research assistant. From 2011 to 2015, Hall was a professional paleontological consultant working out of Los Angeles, where he acted to educate industry and the public that , as natural resources, represent a shared natural heritage worthy of protection. Mr. Hall’s extensive field background includes excavation of Troodon nests from Egg Mountain, MT, teeth of Carcharocles megalodon from beneath the streets of downtown Los Angeles, CA, latest sea caves in southeast Alaska, and late cretaceous in southern Alberta, Canada. He has published research on teeth from Ethiopia, late cretaceous ceratopsians, tyrannosaur taphonomy, and sauropod dinosaur claw function and trackways. Curriculum Vitae Education B. Sc. Earth Science – Paleontology, Montana State University, Bozeman; 2011 Work Experience Lead Paleontologist, SWCA Environmental Consultants; Pasadena, California (2011-2015) Research Assistant, Montana State University (MSU) Department of Earth Sciences; Bozeman, MT (2006–2011) Lab Assistant, University of South Dakota Department of Earth Science; Vermillion, SD (2003–2005) Selected Field Experience Raymond Alf Museum – Rainbow Basin Peccary Trips; California (2011–2015) Museum of the Rockies - Hell Creek Project; Montana (2000–2011) -MSU dinosaur excavation Crew Chief under Dr. Jack Horner North Coast Project; San Francisco area, California (2009) Southeast Alaska Paleontology Project; Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (2004) Publications Hall, L., Fragomeni, A., and Fowler, D. In press . The flexion of sauropod pedal unguals and testing the substrate grip hypothesis using the trackway record. In Falkingham, Marty, and Richter (eds), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps. Indiana University Press. Fowler, D., and Hall, L. 2011. Scratch-digging sauropods, revisited. Historical Biology 23(1): 27-40. Complete CV available upon request.