Christopher Stinson is the Lead Curatorial Assistant of Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Cross-collections at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM). He began working as a volunteer at the Cowan Vertebrate Museum, now part of the BBM, in 2006 and the museum world has been unable to shake him ever since. Born and raised in Northwestern Ontario on the shores of Rainy Lake, Chris has always had a fascination with the natural world, collecting all manner of biological specimens from an early age. He took an animal biology undergraduate degree at UBC and is now enrolled as a Master’s of Science Student in UBC Forestry studying marten taxonomy under Dr. Cole Burton. Most of his work focuses on mammals but he continues to pursue entomology, herpetology, and palaeontology both at work and as a pastime.
