Dave Blackburn
Birthday: September 20, 1979
Hobbies: Running, reading, hiking, cooking, and herping
As a kid I liked: baseball, reading, and getting dirty

Dave Blackburn is a post-doctoral research associate in the Division of Herpetology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. His research focuses on the evolution of diversity in living amphibians as well as the history of Africa's biodiversity. Dave completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University where he conducted his research in the laboratory of his main advisor, Dr. James Hanken. Dave first became interested in Africa when he joined Dr. Paul Sereno's expedition to Niger in 2000. Since then, Dave's conducted field research in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa (including Malawi, Cameroon, and Nigeria) and has developed broad interests in the history of Africa.

Dave Blackburn's website

Read an interview with Dave on the Dinosaur Expedition 2000 web site