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| In the Fall of 1997 Dr. Sereno led an 18 person, four-month expedition to Niger's Sahara Desert to search for fossils. The undertaking took more than a year to plan and required 5 Land Rovers and more two tons of supplies (including a ton of dehydrated food). Learn about the facts of the expedition on the stat sheet, meet the expedition members who made up the team, read excerpts from the expedition scribe's journals , and learn about the people they met in african culture.
The 19 expedition members weren't the only ones to make the trip to the field. With the help of Project Exploration Cofounder Gabrielle Lyon, the 1997 expedition shared the experience with hundreds of Chicago schoolchildren. The experimental "Sahara Connection Curriculum Project," included a correspondence component. More than 20 Chicago-area classrooms studied the 1997 expedition while it was occurring, and wrote letters to the team while they were in the field. Team members wrote back an included polaroid photos and stories of their adventures - hence the name "Sahara Connection." Check out the online Sahara Connection exhibit and read some of the kids' questions and the team's answers about life during a dinosaur expedition. |
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