Earth Sciences Adventures
Robert at work in the mountains of Fairbanks, Alaska
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.
Katherine is majoring in geology and environmental chemistry. She will be blogging from Geology Field Camp in Turkey.