Holly SimonI have been employed with the Whiteside Museum of Natural History since 2016. I started off as the Live Animal Curator, where I was in charge of caring for live reptiles and amphibians in the museum's zoozeum. In 2019, I was promoted to Assistant Dirctor.I'm an active member of the paleontological dig crew and has discovered numerous complete Dimetrodon skeletons, as well as the most elusive of the Permian animals, Seymouria. I'm also the museum's Marketing and Social Media Director.I have spent many years collecting fossils from the badlands of Wyoming, from the Oligocene and Eocene periods. I have also been conducting fossil-hunting expeditions in the Cretaceous Mesa Verde Formation in Wyoming. It is my mission to inspire the next generation of paleontologists, especially young women. Read More Read Less