“Adventures in Antarctica” with Dr. Molly Miller.
Target audience: students in grades 5-12
Times: THURSDAY, March 4, 2010 9:00 – 9:45 and 10:00 – 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then
15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu
Join Dr. Molly Miller, geologist from Vanderbilt, as she describes her many trips to Antarctica. For 32 years, Molly Miller has been a professor of geology at Vanderbilt. Every four or five years, she sheds her lab coat to don multiple layers of fleece and fabric in order to collect rock samples in the ultimate geologic laboratory: Antarctica.
In this frozen landscape she looks for, and finds, evidence that an abundant animal community flourished there more than 200 million years ago. The evidence that she studies is the burrows and tracks that these ancient animals left behind in the rock. Miller uses these trace fossils to reconstruct the environment, ecosystem and climate that existed in these ancient times. She is convinced that this forbidding land contains important clues about long-term climate change and the origin of mammals.
See you soon,
Patsy Partin, M.EdDirector, Virtual School
Vanderbilt University
2007 Terrace Place
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 322-6384
www.vanderbilt.edu/
