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Pat Druckenmiller

Director of the UA Museum (Museum of the North)

UA Museum

907 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775

Website: www.uaf.edu/museum/
Dr. Patrick Druckenmiller began his career at UAF as Earth Sciences Curator at the
University of Alaska Museum in 2007 and was appointed as the museum director in July,
2018. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences. Dr. Druckenmiller
received his BA in Botany from the University of Wisconsin Madison, his MS in Biology
at Montana State University and his PhD in Zoology at the University of Calgary. Pat
is a vertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Mesozoic marine reptiles
and arctic dinosaurs from Alaska. Throughout his career he has worked at or with numerous
museums including the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum (Madison), the Museum
of the Rockies (Bozeman, Montana), the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology (Drumheller,
Alberta) and the University of Oslo Natural History (Norway).