Event Description
Learn about Dr. Daeschler and his team's work exploring for Devonian-age fossils in the Trans-Antartic Mountains of Antarctica.
About this Event
During two austral summers, Dr. Ted Daeschler has co-led a team exploring for Devonian-age fossils (390 million-years-old) in the harsh Trans-Antarctic Mountains in Antarctica. Traveling by military transport, small fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter, snowmobile, and on foot, the team established base camps in three areas where Devonian-age rock is exposed within the predominantly ice-covered continent. Extensive training and thorough preparation enabled safe and productive field seasons yielding a trove of fossils currently under study at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
About the speaker: Dr. Ted Daeschler
Ted Daeschler is a long-time curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences and also a professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University. His research interests are focused on Late Devonian-age vertebrate fossils and the origin of limbed vertebrates. His fieldwork in Devonian-age rocks in Pennsylvania, Arctic Canada and Antarctica has led to a series of discoveries establishing the research program as one of the most productive in the world.
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