Matthew Miller

Collection Services

Matthew helps coordinate visits for outside researchers to the Department of Paleobiology.  He also helps fulfill research photography requests and generally supports the collections management team.

• M.S. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2010
• B.S. State University of New York at New Paltz, 2005

• Association of Materials and Methods in Paleontology
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Matthew is a trained vertebrate paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs of the Hell Creek Formation and mammals of the Chadron and White River Formations.  Matthew is also a trained fossil preparator.

• Miller, M., Little, H., Millhouse, A., Telfer, A. 2021. NMNH Paleobiology Department Fossil Data: Volunteering for a Better Collection, Digicom Vitural Poster
• Miller, M., Millhouse, A., Little, H. 2019. Pitfalls and Successes: The Evolution of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) Paleobiology Collections Volunteer Cataloguing Program. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts for the 2019 Annual Meeting, pp. 155
• Miller, M., Little, H., Successes, 2018 Pitfalls and Aspirations: A Brief History of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) Paleobiology Collections Volunteer Program. Association of Materials and Methods in Paleontology, Program and Abstracts for the 2018 Annual Meeting, pp. 49
• Miller, M., Hollis, K., Jabo, S., Kroehler, P., Millhouse, A., Pinsdorf, M., Wagner, D. 2016. Deconstructing the National Fossil Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. Association of Materials and Methods in Paleontology, Program and Abstracts for the 2016 Annual Meeting, pp. 45-46
• Pinsdorf, M., Jabo, S., Telfer, A., Kroehler, P., Hollis, K., Millhouse, A., Miller, M. 2014. Repurposing the Purposeful: Re-training Fossil Preparators in Vertebrate Mount Dismantling and Conservation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts for the 2014 Annual Meeting, pp. 205
• Clites, Erica., Miller, Matthew., Santucci, Vincent., Spence, John. and Axelsen, Laurie. 2011. Monitoring Paleontological Resources at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas and Cultural Resources. March 14-18, 2011
• Miller, Matthew T. 2010. Sample Analysis of Archaeotherium (Artiodactyla: Entelodontidae) from the Conata Picnic Ground “Big Pig Dig”, Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, pp. 135
• Miller, Matthew T. 2010. Sample Analysis of Archaeotherium (Artiodactyla: Entelodontidae) from the Conata Picnic Ground “Big Pig Dig”, Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science. April 9-10, 2010
• Darbyshire, Jane and Miller, Matthew T. 2010. Evidence for Eolian Deposition and Dune Evolution in Two Undescribed Sections of the Unkpapa Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota. Geologic Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, 2010 Abstracts with Programs. pp. 49