Luke Weaver was born and raised in Colorado and received his Bachelor’s Degree at Colorado State University where he worked on early Eocene primates and the geology of the Willwood Formation. His dissertation research is focused on understanding the locomotor diversity and growth rates of multituberculate mammals during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene. Luke is also using mineralogy and geochemistry to understand the taphonomy of vertebrate microfossil bonebeds from the Hell Creek and Tullock Formations of northeastern Montana.