Born in 1956, Nick Fraser became fascinated with the natural world at a very early age. After receiving his PhD. in Geology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1984, Nick spent the next six years at Cambridge University as a fellow of Girton College studying Triassic reptiles. In 1990 he became the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) in Martinsville, Virginia. In 2007 he moved back to Scotland where he is now Keeper of Natural Sciences at National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh.His research program centers on terrestrial vertebrate faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Over the past few years Nick has been collaborating with a number of colleagues on various aspects of Triassic faunas and floras worldwide. He is the author of numerous scientific articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals.Nick is very interested in public education. For ten years (from 1998- 2007) he took teachers, students and other volunteers to the badlands of Bighorn County, Wyoming where he was excavating a very extensive Jurassic dinosaur bone bed. Most recently he has been working on Triassic terrestrial deposits in Liaoning Province, China, together with colleagues at the National Geological Museum, Beijing.Nick currently serves as editor of the memoirs series for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.