Clint Boyd, State Geologist of North Dakota

On July 1st, Clint Boyd will be State Geologist of North Dakota, as successor to Ed Murphy who held the position since 2004. Clint is from Wisconsin, and he has had a passion for paleontology since high school. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied both biology and geology. He volunteered in fossil preparation at the university’s Geology Museum and joined field expeditions to Montana, Wyoming, and British Columbia. His graduate work at UT Austin was on dinosaurs, and in the summers, he worked on Eocene and Oligocene mammals at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. After his PhD in 2012, he was a Postdoc at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. In 2015, he joined the North Dakota Geological Survey as the Paleontology Section Manager. We wish you well, Clint!