I have been lucky to participate in Field Work around the world.

2025
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Gansu Province, China, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology expedition quarrying for Early Cretaceous birds in the Xiagou Formation

2024
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Montana, USA – microsite excavation and sediment processing, prospecting Hell Creek Formation (expedition leader)

2023
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Montana, USA – microsite excavation and sediment processing, Hell Creek Formation (expedition leader)

Wyoming, USA – quarrying limestones of the Fossil Lake member, Green River Fm, Stones & Bones class (University of Chicago)

2022-ongoing

Montana, USA – The O’Connor lab have been working a new productive microsite in the Hell Creek, looking for birds and traces of other small and rare organisms

2022

Montana, USA – microsite sediment processing, Hell Creek Formation (expedition leader)

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada – joint expedition with the University of Alberta, centennial celebration of Elmer Riggs 1922 fieldwork

2021
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Utah, University of Minnesota – Field Museum joint expedition prospecting and quarrying in the Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation

2019
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Romania, American Museum of Natural History expedition prospecting and quarrying in Cretaceous deposits in the Hateg Basin and near Sebes

2017

Romania, American Museum of Natural History expedition prospecting and quarrying in Cretaceous deposits in the Hateg Basin and near Sebes

2016
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Free State, South Africa, University of Witswatersrand expedition prospecting and quarrying in Jurassic deposits collecting dinosaurs and mammals

Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Alberta, Canada, Phil J. Currie Dinosaur Museum and University of Alberta expedition prospecting in Cretaceous deposits in the Grand Prairie region

2014
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Gansu Province, China, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology expedition quarrying for Early Cretaceous birds in the Xiagou Formation

2011
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Mongolia, American Museum of Natural History expedition prospecting for Cretaceous dinosaurs and lizards and Paleogene mammals

2010
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Xinjiang, China, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology expedition prospecting for dinosaurs in the Jurassic Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin

2007
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Utah, USA, The University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Southern Utah Dinosaur Expedition prospecting in the Kaiparowits Formation in Grand Staircase-Escalante (expedition leader)

2006
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Montana, USA, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History expedition prospecting and quarrying in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation

2005
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Qinghai, Gansus, Xingjiang, China, Prospecting for mammals in Neogene deposits identified by oil geologists in the 1950’s

2003
Jingmai O'Connor during field work

Montana, USA, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History expedition prospecting and quarrying in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation

Inner Mongolia, China, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology expedition to prospect and screen-wash for mammals in Neogene deposits