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. ​ 1 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) 2 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) ​ 3 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