Curriculum Vitae
JASON P. SCHEIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BIGHORN BASIN PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
3959 Welsh Road, Ste. 208 Willow Grove, Pennsylvania 19090 Office: (406) 998-1390 Cell: (610) 996-1055 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Student Drexel University, Department of Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, 2005-2013 M.Sc., Auburn University, Department of Geology and Geography, 2004 B.Sc., Auburn University, Department of Geology and Geography, 2000
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Mesozoic vertebrate marine and terrestrial faunas, paleoecology, paleobiogeography, faunistics, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, functional morphology, sedimentology, general natural history, education and outreach, paleontological resource assessment, and entrepreneurial academic paleontology.
ACADEMIC, PROFESSIONAL, & BOARD POSITIONS
2019-Present Member of the Board, Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association 2017-Present Founding Executive Director, Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute 2017-Present Member of the Board, Delaware Valley Paleontological Society 2016-Present Scientific and Educational Consultant, Field Station: Dinosaurs 2015-Present Graduate Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 2007-2017 Assistant Curator of Natural History Collections and Exhibits, New Jersey State Museum 2015-2017 Co-founder, Co-leader, Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project 2010-2015 International Research Associate, Palaeontology Research Team, University of Manchester 2010-2014 Co-leader, New Jersey State Museum’s Paleontology Field Camp 2007-2009 Interim Assistant Curator of Natural History, New Jersey State Museum 2006-2007 Manager, Dinosaur Hall Fossil Preparation Laboratory 2004-2005 Staff Environmental Geologist, Cobb Environmental and Technical Services, Inc.
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FIELD EXPERIENCE
2010-2019 Beartooth Butte, Morrison, Lance, and Fort Union formations, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana, U.S.A. (Devonian, Jurassic, Late Cretaceous, and earliest Paleocene, respectively) 2010 Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, U.S.A. (Latest Cretaceous) 2006-2007 Pari Aike Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina (Late Cretaceous) 2005-2011 Navesink and Hornerstown formations, New Jersey, U.S.A. (Latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleocene). 2000-2001 Mooreville Chalk Formation, Alabama, U.S.A. (Late Cretaceous) 2000 Pierre Shale Formation, South Dakota, U.S.A. (Late Cretaceous) 1999 Mobile River Delta, Alabama, U.S.A. (Field Assistant, palynologic sampling) 1999 Eutaw Formation, Georgia, U.S.A. (Late Cretaceous) 1999 Pottsville Formation, Alabama, U.S.A. (Pennsylvanian) 1998-1999 Carbonate Depositional Environments, San Salvador, Bahamas (Pleistocene-Recent)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-2019 Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology Rocky Mountain College (Field Paleontology GEO 380) 2010-2014 Instructor*, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Field Paleontology 471, 571; *Not an employee of the SDSM&T) 2008-2013 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University (Evolution, Physical Geology, History of Life on Earth) 2006-2010 Teaching Assistant (Lecture), Department of Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University (Physical Geology, History of Life on Earth) 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant (Lab), Department of Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University (Dinosaurs and their World, Physical Geology, Evolution, Ecology of the Pine Barrens) 2000-2003 Teaching Assistant (Lab), Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University (Historical Geology, Paleobiology, Sedimentary Petrology) 2003 Teaching Assistant (Lecture), College of Science and Mathematics, Auburn University (Concepts of Science)
SELECTED SERVICE, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2015-2016 Editor, The Mosasaur, Journal of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society
FUNDED RESEARCH ($42,866 in total directly awarded funds)
2017 Attendance at the NE/NC Geological Society of America section meeting (MyFossil.org) 2016 Attendance at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $2,843.50) 2016 Presentation of A new partial skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $2,428.50) 2016 3D scanning of Paralbula tooth plates (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $450) 2016 CT scanning of a pathologic hadrosaurid radius and ulna (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $225) 2015 Excavating a Bonebed in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin (Experiment.com crowdfunding campaign, $6,800)
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2015 Presentation of Tapping a new source: The anatomy of a successful crowdfunding campaign for vertebrate paleontology to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $2,304.50) 2015 Attendance at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $1,858) 2014 Presentation of the rediscovery of the Atlantochelys holotype to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $5,352.50) 2014 CT scanning Cretaceous fish concretions at the Natural History Museum (London) and Oxford University (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $9,411.50) 2011 Inversand Project (Grants from the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society, Calvert Cliffs Museum Fossil Club, $2,335) 2010 Survey of AMNH and ANSP for Paralbula material (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $2,500) 2010 Field expedition to the northern Bighorn Basin of Montana and Wyoming (Richards Fund, New Jersey State Museum Foundation, $2,537.50) 2005 Student Travel Grant (Geological Society of America, $70) 2002 The teleost fish Enchodus and the paleoceanography of Upper Cretaceous rock units in Alabama (Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Student Grant, Paleontological Society Research Award, Auburn University Graduate Student Research Award, Southeastern Section Geological Society of America Student Research Award, $3,750)
FUNDED OUTREACH PROGRAMS ($61,417.51 in total directly awarded funds)
2017-2019 Dinosaur Treasures In Our Backyards; Program developed for and delivered to summer programs in Carbon County (Montana): ● $52,167.51 David B. Jones Foundation ● $2,500 Paleontological Society Outreach and Education Grant ● $3,000 Jerry Metcalf Foundation ● $3,000 Toomey Foundation ● $500 Red Lodge Area Community Foundation ● $250 Red Lodge Rotary Club
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2005-Present Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2000-Present Geological Society of America 2007-2017 Sigma Xi 2000-2006 Paleontological Society
SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS REVIEWED
2018 The Mosasaur (10 manuscripts; Guest Editor) 2017 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (1 manuscript) 2016 The Mosasaur (13 manuscripts; Guest Editor) 2015 Paludicola (1 manuscript) 2012 Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural HIstory (1 manuscript) 2010 The Mosasaur (1 manuscript)
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SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2019 Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: Philly to Montana: Partners in Paleontology 2018 New York Paleontological Society: New Advances and Adventures in Dinosaur Paleontology in the Bighorn Basin 2017 MyFossil Session, NE/NC Geological Society of America meeting: The Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: A History of Advancing Paleontology for Everyone 2016 Industry Day, Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association: Paleontology in the Bighorn Basin: Then and Now 2016 Paleopalooza, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University: Dinosaurs of the Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project (Keynote Speaker) 2016 Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: New Dinosaur Discoveries in the Bighorn Basin 2015 Industry Day, Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association: New Dinosaur Discoveries in the Bighorn Basin 2015 Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: Dinosaur Hunting with the New Jersey State Museum 2015 New York Paleontological Society: New Dinosaur Discoveries in the Bighorn Basin 2010 Open House, Rutgers University Geology Museum: Dinosaur Hunting with the New Jersey State Museum 2010 New Jersey Paleontological Society: Dinosaur Hunting with the New Jersey State Museum 2008 Delaware Rock and Mineral Society: Excavating Giant Dinosaurs 2007 Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: How to Dig Up A Giant Dinosaur: Excavating enormous sauropod dinosaurs in southern Patagonia
SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES
2018 Science &U!: CUNY TV 2017 Running a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign. Lab Manager, 10 Oct. 2017 2016 A Small Tarp Conceals A Big Find (Discovery Magazine) 2016 First Diagnosis of Septic Arthritis in a Dinosaur (Newspapers and blogs around the world) 2014 Atlantochelys (National Geographic Phenomena, newspapers around the world) 2012 Field Station: Dinosaurs (New Jersey Journal) 2012 Prehistoric creatures invading New Jersey (Wall Street Journal) 2011 Inversand Excavation (The Philadelphia Inquirer, NBC News: Philadelphia) 2010 Dinosaur trackway site preservation (NBC, CBS: New York City) 2010 N.J. State Museum dinosaur-hunting team scours badlands for paleontology’s most-wanted (Inside Jersey) 2009 Old Spin on Climate: Exhibit looks at how New Jersey looked 100,000 years ago (The Philadelphia Inquirer) 2009 Climate Change Exhibit (New Jersey Network) 2008 Prehistoric Monsters Revealed (The History Channel) 2008 Sedimental Journey (The Philadelphia Inquirer) 2002 Digging the Past (The Birmingham News, The Selma Times-Journal, The Gadsden Times, The Huntsville Times)
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2016-Present Scientific and Educational Consultant, Field Station: Dinosaurs 2016-Spring Paleo Grants Program Manager, Experiment.com 4
2015-Present Councilor, Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association Advisory Board 2015-2016 Member, Delaware Valley Paleontological Society Advisory Board 2014-2016 Creator, Co-writer, Co-Editor, and Host, Ask the Experts Video Learning Library 2015-Present Editor, The Mosasaur Vol. IX
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles
Schwarzhans, W., Beckett, H., Schein, J., and Friedman, M.. Computed tomography scanning as a tool for linking the skeletal and otolith-based fossil records of teleost fishes. Palaeontology, 2018:1-31. Shankle, W. J., and J. P. Schein, K. Shankle, In Press. Scoyenia ichnofossils of the Lance Formation in the Elk Basin, Park County, Wyoming, USA. The Mosasaur, 10. Gane, M. E., H. Maisch, J. P. Schein, Parris, D.C., and E. G. Lauginiger, 2016. Redescription of the Late Cretaceous ammonite Chesapeakiceras nodatum from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 165(1):9-13. Anné, J., B. J. Hendrick, and J. P. Schein, 2016. First diagnosis of septic arthritis in a dinosaur. Royal Society Open Science. R. Soc. open sci.3: 160222. Lacovara, K., M. C. Lamanna, L. Ibiricu, J. Poole, E. Schroeter, P. Ullmann, K. Voegele, Z. Boles, A. Carter, E. Fowler, V. Egerton, A. Moyer, C. Coughenour, J. P. Schein, J. Harris, R. Martínez, and F. Novas, 2014. A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from Southern Patagonia, Argentina. Scientific Reports 4:6196. Parris, D. C., J. P. Schein, E. B. Daeschler, E. S. Gilmore, J. C. Poole, and R. A. Pellegrini, 2014. Two halves make a holotype: two hundred years between discoveries. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 163:85-89. Schein, J. P., and J. C. Poole, 2014. A shark-bitten dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) femur from the Latest Maastrichtian basal Hornerstown Formation, New Jersey, U.S.A. The Mosasaur, 7: 15-22. Callahan, W., J. P. Schein, D. C. Parris, and J. P. Poole, 2014. The Late Cretaceous shark Sphenodus in North America. The Mosasaur, 7:69-80. Krsnak, K., J. P. Schein, D. C. Parris, J. C. Poole, and W. B. Gallagher, 2014. Indicated fossil turnover linked to changes in depositional environment between the Maastrichtian and Campanian boundary in the Western United States. The Mosasaur, 7:31-40. Schein, J. P., D. C. Parris, J. C. Poole, and K. J. Lacovara, 2013. A Nearly Complete Skull of Enchodus ferox (Actinopterygii, Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Ripley Formation of Lowndes County, Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, 31(1):78-83. Schein, J. P., and R. D. Lewis, 2007. Actinopterygian fishes of the Upper Cretaceous units of Alabama, with special emphasis on Enchodus Agassiz, 1835. Paludicola 6(2):41-86. Schein, J. P., and R. D. Lewis, 2001. The relationship between living echinoid populations and their skeletal remains in the sea-floor sediment, San Salvador, Bahamas. Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions, June 8 – 12, 2000. Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas, p. 163-172. th ● Presentation to the 10 Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions, San Salvador, Bahamas. Lewis, R. D., J. P. Schein, and M. T. Sadler, 2000. Echinoid skeletal fragments in sea-floor sediment, San Salvador, Bahamas: Fidelity studies using sand-sized material. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 32(7):446.
Miscellaneous Articles, Scientific Communications, and Degree Theses
Schein, J. P., 2015. Field season in review. National Bureau of Land Management Newsletter. Schein, J. P., 2014. Dinosaur hunting, and so much more, with the New Jersey State Museum. Uplift, pp. 2-3. Schein, J. P., 2004. The teleost fish Enchodus and the paleoceanography of Upper Cretaceous rock units in Alabama. M.Sc. thesis, Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 205 p. 5
Schein, J. P., 2000. The relationship between living echinoid populations and their skeletal remains in the sea-floor sediment, San Salvador, Bahamas. B.Sc. senior thesis, Department of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 13p.
Popular Books and Articles
Schein, J. P. and W.J. Shankle, 2017. Club Corner: Delaware Valley Paleontological Society. MyFossil Newsletter, 3(4):809. Schein, J. P., and J. C. Poole, 2015. A Dynasty of Dinosaurs. Artemisia Press, Albuquerque, N.M. *Winner of the 2016 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Winner - Children's Activity Book
Published Scientific Abstracts
Schein, J.P., Poole, J.C., Malinowski, B.L., Schmidt, R.W., and Rooney, L.A., 2019. Reopening the Mother’s Day Quarry (Jurassic Morrison Formation, Montana) is yielding new information. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Schein, J.P., R.W. Schmidt, J.P. Poole, 2018. Dinosaur Treasures In Our Backyards: A model for fostering community pride in geological and paleontological resources. Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Mirana, A., A.R., Tumarkin-Deratzin, J. Schein, and D. C. Parris, 2017. Vertebrate microfossils from the Shield Wolf Quarry, Lance Formation (Maastrichtian), Carbon County, MT, U.S.A. Geological Society of America, Joint NE-NC Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Schein, J. P., and W. J. Shankle, 2017. The Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: A History of Advancing Paleontology for Everyone. Geological Society of America, Joint NE-NC Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Malinowski, B. L., L. A. Rooney, J. P. Schein, and J. Poole. A new partial skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis from the Lance Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2016, 181. Schein, J. P., Wilson, G. P., Sidor, C. A., DeBey, L. B., Poole, J. C., and Malinowski, B. L. Tapping a new source: the anatomy of a successful crowdfunding campaign for vertebrate paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, 208-209. Callahan, W. R., R. Pellegrini, J. P. Schein, J. D. McCauley, and D. C. Parris, 2015. A nearly complete specimen of Hyposaurus rogersii (Crocodylomorpha, Dryosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous-early Paleocene of New Jersey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2015, 101. Payne, B., J. C. Poole, and J. P. Schein, 2013. Unearthing Interest in Paleontology for WINS Interns. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 45(7):569. Schein, J. P., 2013. A pathologic and deformed Squalicorax pristodontus tooth from the latest Maastrichtian basal Hornerstown Formation, Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S.A. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 45(7):325. Callahan, W., J. P. Schein, E. Schroeter, D. C. Parris, and K. J. Lacovara. First record of the synechodontiform shark Sphenodus (neoselachii, orthacodontidae) from the Danian of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012, 73. Brochu, C., R. Denton, B. Grandstaff, D. C. Parris, and J. P. Schein. Southern northern crocodiles: Borealosuchus from the Campanian of Alabama and the early biogeographic history of crocodylians in North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012, 68. Schein, J. P., J. C. Poole, and K. J. Lacovara. A shark-bitten hadrosaurid femur from the basal Hornerstown Formation, New Jersey, U.S.A.: One of the youngest non-avian dinosaur remains known. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012, 166. Voegele, K. K., A. K. Patel, P. V. Ullmann, J. P. Schein, and K. J. Lacovara. Insights from a new specimen of the gavialoid Crocodilian Thoracosaurus neocesariensis from the Maastrichtian-Danian Hornerstown Formation, Sewell, NJ. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012, 190. Buynevich, I. V., E. Eisemann, D. O. Terry, Jr., K. Hayes, D. Grandstaff, M. Garb, J. P. Schein, K. Lacovara, and A. Landman, 2012. Ichnology of K/T sections of Central New Jersey: burrow geometry and magnetic properties. Geological Society of America Northeastern Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 44(2):92. Schein, J. P., B. S. Grandstaff, W. Gallagher, J. C. Poole, and K. J. Lacovara, 2011. Paralbula in North America: Revisiting an
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enigmatic Campanian – Late Paleocene teleost with hope for new insights. Geological Society of America Northeastern Meeting Abstracts with Programs, 43(1):87. Schein, J. P., K. J. Lacovara, W. Gallagher, and J. C. Poole. Transgressive Lag or Condensed Section?: Taphonomic evidence from the latest Cretaceous-earliest Tertiary basal Hornerstown Formation (New Jersey, U.S.A.). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2008, 136. Egerton, V. M., K. J. Lacovara, J. P. Schein, W. B. Gallagher, and J. C. Poole. Articulated and associated shark vertebrae from the latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene basal Hornerstown Formation (New Jersey). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2008, 74. Schein, J. P., R. D. Lewis, and C. E. Savrda, 2006. Did high-calcium sea water in the Late Cretaceous cause anomalously high ratios of planktonic to benthic foraminifera? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 38(7):490. Schein, J. P., K. J. Lacovara, W. Gallagher, and J. C. Poole. A nearly complete Thoracosaurus neocesariensis from the latest Cretaceous-earliest Tertiary Hornerstown Formations of New Jersey, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2006, 120.
REFERENCES
Dr. Ted Daeschler Dr. Phillip L. Manning Associate Curator and Chair Vertebrate Zoology Chair of Natural History Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia University of Manchester 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway Oxford Rd Philadelphia, PA 19104 Manchester, U.K. M13 9PL Ph: (215) 299-1133 Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 3824 [email protected] [email protected]
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