Associate Director, Museum of Geology - Nathaniel Fox
Nathaniel
Fox is the Associate Director of the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota
Mines. He received a B.S. in Biology in 2011 from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst and a M.S. in Geosciences in 2014 from East
Tennessee State University. Nathaniel worked as a mitigation paleontologist for
SWCA Environmental Consultants in Sheridan, Wyoming, from 2014 to 2015 and
started his PhD program at the University of California Merced in August 2015.
He worked as an Assistant Collections Manager at the La Brea Tar Pits and
Museum in 2018 and earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems from UC Merced in
2020. His dissertation research focused on the taxonomy, community ecology, and
stable isotope ecology of late Quaternary small mammals from the Rancho La Brea
Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. After
completing his graduate studies, Nathaniel transitioned to his role
as Associate Director of the Museum of Geology in August 2020.
Personnel Directory | Email: Nathaniel.Fox@sdsmt.edu