Lindsay Zanno
Division Head, Paleontology @North Carolina Museum Of Natural Sciences
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WORK HISTORY
Division Head, Paleontology @North Carolina Museum Of Natural Sciences
Raleigh-Durham, NC, US
Zanno received a B.S. in Biological Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (summa cum laude, a M.S. in Geology (2004), and a Ph.D. in Geology (2008) from the University of Utah. Her enduring interest in science education solidified during her graduate studies when she was granted two successive NSF Graduate STEM Fellowships in K-12 Education. Subsequently, she was awarded the prestigious John Meeker-Caldwell (20••••10) and Bucksbaum Young Scientist (20••••11) fellowships to conduct postdoctoral research at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago Illinois, where she remains a Research Associate.
EDUCATION
The University of New Mexico
B.S., Biological Anthropology
University of Utah
Ph.D., Geology
University of Utah
M.S., Geology
SKILLS
ABOUT LINDSAY ZANNO
Dr. Lindsay Zanno is Head of Paleontology at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and an Associate Research Professor at North Carolina State University. At the museum, she oversees the unit’s collective research and educational activities, three research collections (Paleobotany, Invertebrate Paleontology, & Vertebrate Paleontology), and directs the on-exhibit Paleontology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center building.Zanno’s research interests and methods are broad. Her lab uses morphological data from extinct and living vertebrates to address evolutionary patterns on geologic timescales, with a focus on Mesozoic dinosaurs. An important component of Zanno’s research program is exploratory. Her teams spend several months a year on expedition collecting fossils of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic vertebrates for scientific research. Goals of the field program are aimed at understanding how changing climate and environmental conditions affected life on land during the Cretaceous. Currently, active field projects span the Asian and North American continents and include Mongolia, Thailand, multiple states across the American West from where she has discovered the remains of more than a dozen new species, including Siats, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on the continent, and Moros, North America\'s tiniest tyrannosaur. You can follow along with Zanno Lab expeditions on the real-time social media platform—Expedition Live!Zanno’s research is regularly published in high-profile, general science journals including Nature, Nature Communications, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, and Scientific Reports, for which she was awarded top 100 author recognitions in 2016 & 2017. Her work has been recognized as Nature World News’ Top Dinosaur Stories, Discover Magazine’s top 100 Science Stories, and Discover Magazine’s Year in Science Top Research and has been featured by notables such as the Science Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, Nova, and the BBC, among others. She was recently featured as Science Advocate for the Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular, and currently serves as President of The Jurassic Foundation, a non-profit, grant funding organization supporting dinosaur research. She also coordinates several citizen science and STEM education projects including Cretaceous Creatures, a microvertebrate fossil discovery program.Zanno’s published impact includes >190 technical works and to date, her lab has received over $7M in direct funding for research and education.
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