Benjamin Burger, Ph.D.

Field: Earth Science
Areas of Focus: Ancient Climate, Climate Change, Geology, Paleontology

Expertise

• Dinosaurs
• Fossils
• Mass extinction
• Past climate change
• Rocks
• Paleontology
• Ancient mammals
• Geology

Bio

Dr. Benjamin Burger is an associate professor of geology at Utah State University. He earned graduate degrees in geology, at the University of Colorado, and anatomy, at Stony Brook University in New York. His research encompasses the geologic and fossil record preserved in the exposed canyons and badlands of the American West, particularly focused on the fossil record of vertebrate animals such as dinosaurs and ancient mammals.

He utilizes his expertise on fossils to benefit the northeastern Utah community, as well. In addition to his teaching and research with USU, Dr. Burger works with the Utah Field House Natural History Museum in Vernal and hosted the 2014 Utah Friends of Paleontology annual meeting at the USU Uintah Basin Campus. He has given educational presentations at various local K-12 schools in Ashley Valley, school tours to the geology laboratory, and helped organize the Uintah Basin Summer Science Camp for middle school-aged children.