Carrie Levitt-Bussian is a paleontologist and the Paleontology Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah.  She manages and curates over 50,000 paleontological specimens at NHMU which includes vertebrate, invertebrate and paleobotanical fossils. She is also the Database Manager for these collections. She also spends many weeks out of the summer excavating dinosaurs in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and New Mexico. She received her Masters of Science in geology (emphasizing in vertebrate paleontology) from the University of Utah in 2013 and has a Bachelor’s of Science in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research is in ceratopsian limb bone histology studying how animals, like triceratops, grew and what their metabolism was like when they were alive.