Abstract: I want to start by saying thanks for another opportunity to talk to the Geological Society of MN. Looking forward to the talk! We have some truly remarkable specimens to show and hopefully the talk will be entertaining. 

Biography: I'm a Masters prepared Nurse Practitioner in the Neonatal ICU at the University of Minnesota, where I have been practicing for 14 years. Interestingly, it was my medical career that, by pure chance, ignited my passion for meteorites 7 years ago. I was at a medical conference in Jackson, WY. My kids dragged me into a fossil shop where they had a large meteorite for sale. That was all it took to immediately fuel a meteorite addiction. 

Today, I am a "citizen scientist" meteorite hunter, educator, and owner of Minnesota Meteorites, LLC. MNM is now the largest commercial cutting, curation, and restoration company on the planet. We have the newest and most advanced precision cutting equipment to work on some of the most rare and valuable rocks known to humans. website: https://www.mnmeteorites.com/

We partner with any number of Universities, Museums, and collectors, including NASA, the Smithsonian,  Chicago Field Museum, Arizona State University, and many others, to procure, protect, sample, and sell the rarest space rocks known.