Meet The Authors

Russell Hawley

rhawley@caspercollege.edu

Russell J. Hawley attended the University of Colorado in 1985 with the intention of becoming a professional palæontologist. Accordingly, he took classes in geology, biology, zoology, comparative anatomy and human anatomy and physiology. But then he took calculus - and failed it. He took calculus again, and failed it again. After failing calculus for the third time, he decided that he would probably make a pretty mediocre scientist even if, by some miracle, he did ever manage to pass calculus so he switched his major to fine art. He doesn’t regret the science classes that he took at UC - nowadays, if Dr. Sundell tells him something like ‘Remember that the fossa antorbitalis is displaced anteriorly’ Russell doesn’t have to ask for a translation.

Russell’s artwork has appeared in the America's Smithsonian Anniversary traveling exhibition, games, t-shirts and coffee mugs, Prehistoric Times magazine, Mike Everhart’s Oceans of Kansas and Dr. Dale Russell’s Islands in the Cosmos. He also drew quarry maps for Dr. Robert Bakker in the early 90’s. In 1996 he worked for Raptors to Rex: The Dinosaur Predators, a travelling dinosaur exhibit. After his exile to Wyoming in 1997, he began volunteering at the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College. After several months the director of the museum realized that Russell wasn’t going to go away and started paying him a salary. His current duties include giving tours, writing articles for the museum newsletter, and producing illustrations for the museum displays. He also wrote and illustrated Fossil Critters of Wyoming.