I'm heading to Antarctica for the 4th time
and do some paleontology and geology research there.
This time we'll be working in an area called
the Shackleton Glacier area.
This is a pretty historic place to work because
it was one of the first places in Antarctica
where vertebrates were found in any abundance
in the central Transantarctic Mountains.
Project will include looking at the early
Triassic, which is the time period right after
the big mass extinction.
It's pretty rare to have fossils from Antarctica
anywhere.
And for the Burke to have one of the bigger
collections of Antarctic fossils is going to be great.
