Brian Nagurski
Brian was born in St. Paul Minnesota on December 29, 1971, but grew up in Roselle, Illinois. As a kid, he played a ton of sports, including baseball, football, and hockey. He also took piano lessons, though reluctantly. “I could never sit still long enough on the piano bench to become very good.”

His love of dinosaurs came from his penchant for digging in the wooded area by his home. “I would dig into anything, looking for everything from bones to rocks to buried treasure…although I mostly found rocks.”

He started volunteering in Paul’s dino lab in the spring of 2003 and joined him on the Wyoming 2003 expedition. He will be going to Niger as the expedition’s medical personnel, as he is studying for his EMT certification and eventually will pursue EMT paramedic training. He’s looking forward to the adventure of the Sahara and the potential for some great discoveries buried there.