Meet the Team Eric Rickart, Ph.D. Curator of Vertebrates, Utah Museum of Natural History Eric Rickart is Curator of Vertebrates at the Utah Museum of Natural History. He developed a strong interest in natural history and mammals early in life, learning taxidermy and starting his own collection of small mammals when he was in junior high school. These interests were strongly reinforced when he attended the University of Kansas for his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees, where he worked and conducted research on mammalian ecology and evolution in the Museum of Natural History. Dr. Rickart began working with the Philippine Mammal Project in 1987, with a special interest in the highly diverse and unusual native rodents. He has acquired many nicknames in the Philippines over the years, including "Felix" and "the Viking." Meet the team>>