On Earth with Kirstin Brink - Adjunct Curator and Assistant Professor

Dr. Kirstin Brink is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Manitoba and Adjunct Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, MB. She is a vertebrate palaeontologist interested in the evolution and development of biomineralized tissues (teeth and bones). Ongoing projects in the lab involve dinosaurs, marine reptiles, non-mammalian synapsids (like Dimetrodon, an ancestor of mammals) and living animal models (lizards and fish). We use histology, microscopy, Computed Tomography (CT scans), Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and geochemical analyses to address our research questions.