Camps Staff
Our staff team for 2026 will be developing over the coming months. New team members will be posted here as well as announced on our social media platforms as hires are made.
Our camps staff are professional scientists and science educators, graduate students, undergraduates, and select program alumni. We value a wide range of professional skills and career paths, in order to provide a broad set of skills training and perspective to our students. All of our staff are deeply passionate about science outreach and education in addition to their professional specializations.
Each field-based program includes at least one staff member with a Wilderness First Responder certification, ensuring quick, decisive action when dealing with any kind of injury or health concern in the field.
David Levering – Camps Director, Instructor
Museum Assistant Director, Camps Operations Director, Science Educator, Paleobiologist
Social media: @BioGeoVerse on Instagram and Bluesky
Email: DALevering@FHSU.edu
David joined the Museum staff in 2013. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelors degree in geology in 2007. He also worked as a teaching assistant in the Zoology department at Oklahoma State University from 2010 to 2013, where he graduated with a Master’s of Science. Before coming to the Sternberg, David spent seven summers working in the youth science camp industry. He also worked three summers with the National Park Service at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in southern Idaho. There, he carried out paleontology field and lab work and worked with kids showing them geology and paleontology. He is a published researcher, with past collaborations with professional academics studying mammal paleobiology and mechanics. More recently he has moved more into leadership rather roles, including Chair of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology External Communications Committee, and member of the Fundraising Development Committee. (Past SVP comittee work includes the Education and Diversity committee.) David manages the entire camps program, and oversees program logistics, curriculum design, and operational partnerships.
Casey Bennet - Operations Management Graduate Fellow
Marjie Cone, MS - Development Co-Coordinator
Maggie Wolf, MS - Development Co-Coordinator