Rob Ross is the Associate Director for Outreach (education and exhibits) at the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth. Rob received his B.S. in Geological Sciences from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Harvard University. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Kiel in Germany and four years in the Faculty of Science at Shizuoka University in Japan before coming to PRI in 1997.