Dr Kristi Curry Rogers is a Vertebrate Paleontologist at Macalester College, where she received the Jack and Marty Rossman Award for Excellence in Teaching. She specializes in the long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods and has traveled around the globe in search of their bones. Kristi was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to investigate the effects of environmental stress on the bones of backboned animals (including dinosaurs). She is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles, has published two articles in Scientific American, and is an editor of a book titled The Sauropods: Paleobiology and Evolution.
She is the Vice President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and is actively involved in public outreach activities. She has been a consultant and on-screen expert for programs aired on PBS, BBC Horizon, the Discovery Channel, and the National Geographic Channel, and recently appeared in her first IMAX film (Maximo!). Kristi is also a professor for Wondrium, and her course “Rediscovering the Age of Dinosaurs” has gained recent critical acclaim.
