John Hankla is a second-year student in the University's Museum and Field Studies program. John helps museums create, acquire and install cast replicas of amazing fossils. Currently he is working with a large, private collection of these casts, improving their curation and registration in order to make them more useful to museums. At present, he is collaborating with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis on Dinosphere: now you're in their world, and with T.rexcetera at the Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Kansas.
When he is not playing with plastic dinosaurs, John also spends time thinking about real fossils. His research interests are in latest Creataceous paleoecology in North America,
specifically the microvertebrate fossils from eastern Wyoming.
Turn-ons:
- Bambiraptor feinbergi
- Dracorex hogwartsia
- Gem quality fossils
- Well-hidden steel armature
- Lagerstatten
