Earth Sciences Adventures
Robert at work in the mountains of Fairbanks, Alaska
SMU Earth Sciences students and faculty are having amazing adventures from Antarctica to Ethiopia. Select a blog below to read firsthand accounts of our research.
A graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher in SMU’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, along with Professor Louis L. Jacobs, are conducting research in Angola in southern Africa during summer 2012. They are members of an international scientific program called the PaleoAngola Project, which seeks to discover and study Angola’s vertebrate paleontology and learn about the environment in which prehistoric creatures lived. Readers also can follow their work at paleoangola.org/
A team of researchers lead by SMU Paleontologist Louis Jacobs is in Mongolia as a part of a multi-international dinosaur expedition hosted by the city of Hwaseong in the Republic of Korea. The purpose of the project is to discover, collect and study dinosaur fossils from the Gobi desert in Mongolia, which is one of the most important dinosaur localities in the world.
A team of researchers lead by Paleobotanist Bonnie Jacobs and Sedimentologist Neil Tabor, both of SMU, returned to northwestern Ethiopia in late December 2007 to collect additional plant fossils and gain a more thorough understanding of their geological context.
Master's student Chris Strganac, doctoral student Yosuke Nishida and Professor Louis Jacobs traveled to Antarctica to discover 120 million-year-old mammal fossils from Livingston Island and other places around the Antarctic Peninsula.
Robert, a 2005 graduate in dance and geological sciences, attended Geology Field Camp at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.