Michael Novacek, Ph.D. (Co-PI), Paleontology, Biology
As Senior Vice President and Provost at the American Museum of Natural History, Mike is the chief spokesman for the museum's scientific program.  As Curator in the Division of Paleontology, he has also been a team leader of the joint AMNH/Mongolian Academy of Sciences ongoing expeditions to the Gobi Desert. Novacek was one of the discoverers of Ukhaa Tolgod, the richest Cretaceous dinosaur fossil site known in the world.

Mark Norell, Ph.D. Biology, Zoology
Curator and Chair of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, Mark has acted as leader or co-leader on numerous international paleontological expeditions, including annual trips for more than a decade to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.  Much of Norell's recent research has yielded new evidence of the link between dinosaurs and birds. He is a widely published author in dinosaur science and paleontology.

Amy Balanoff, M.S.
Amy is a doctoral student at Columbia University and holds a graduate fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History. She received a B.S. and M.S. from The University of Texas at Austin, and spent much of her time there working on developmental morphology of archosaurs. She is currently researching the evolutionary relationships and ontogeny of Oviraptorosaur dinosaurs. Amy has been involved in fieldwork in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, as well as the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. 

Sterling Nesbitt, M.A.
Sterling is a doctoral student at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History.  He is a recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.  He received a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley and a M.A. from Columbia University.  Sterling investigates the early representatives of dinosaurs and distant relatives of crocodylians. Additionally, he researches the origin of the Mesozoic fauna at the end of the Triassic. He conducts fieldwork in Arizona, Utah, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Tanzania, Africa.