Linda Deck is the Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. She came to Idaho in September, 2002, from a 20-year career at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. At the Smithsonian, she was senior exhibit developer and project manager for permanent paleontology and geology exhibitions. While there she had also done research and work in collections.Linda holds degrees from Virginia Tech (MS in Geology) and the University of Rochester (BS in Biology-Geology).