“I didn’t want to become known as the dung person.” Karen Chin Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Karen Chin didn’t plan on becoming an expert on dinosaur droppings. She studied the fossilized dinosaur poop, called coprolites, as a graduate student, but she figured she’d branch out afterwards to pursue any one of her many interests. Plus, she adds with a laugh, “I didn’t want to become known as the dung person.”Yet the more she learned about coprolites, the more she became captivated by the field’s unique potential to shed light on past ecosystems. By analyzing a dinosaur’s...…“I didn’t want to become known as the dung person.” Karen Chin Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Karen Chin didn’t plan on becoming an expert on dinosaur droppings. She studied the fossilized dinosaur poop, called coprolites, as a graduate student, but she figured she’d branch out afterwards to pursue any one of her many interests. Plus, she adds with a laugh, “I didn’t want to become known as the dung person.”Yet the more she learned about coprolites, the more she became captivated by the field’s unique potential to shed light on past ecosystems. By analyzing a dinosaur’s...WW…