Matt & Max

Hi there! We're Mattison and Maximilian (aka Matt and Max). We met back in 2022 while working as park rangers for the US Forest Service near Badlands National Park. Though we only worked together for about three months, we considered each other lifelong friends by the end of the summer. After that summer at Badlands, Max worked as a museum educator and paleontologist, visited paleontology collections across the country for research, and is now knee-deep in finishing his master's thesis. In that time, Matt continued to work at Badlands, published her first paleontology paper, and is lined up to start a PhD next fall. Though we went our separate ways for a few years, we were lucky enough to reconnect in 2024. Flash forward to 2025, and you'll find that we have progressed beyond friendship and now live together. We've spent the last year as a couple exploring the country, doing paleontology research, building our platform as social media science communicators, and so much more. Working as paleontologists has shown us the need to both protect species diversity and expand research into ecosystem response to climate change in the deep past, but our time working as rangers and educators has highlighted to us that, in addition to scientific progress, there is a distinct need for accessible science education. We have experienced firsthand that an understanding and appreciation of Earth history can inspire a sense of loyalty to the planet and drive people towards bettering the environment on a time scale longer than our own lifespans. As such, our mission these days is to make science fun and accessible for everyone by creating content for people who want to learn more about the planet we all share to inspire environmental protection, sustainability, and responsible recreation.

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