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February 2007 - Posts

• Last Day in the Field

  Today was our last day in the field. With the help of four local workers (Anand, Prakash, Vittal, and Laxman), we finished up our work in the Gokak area. We screen-washed almost 2.5 tons of sediment from several sites where many clam, snail, and turtle Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:28 AM by kwilliams | 1 Comments

• Neighborhood Kids Help with Search for Fossils in Badlands Outside of Gokak

  On Tuesday, we started work in our second area—a small pocket of badlands just outside the town of Gokak in the southwestern state of Karnataka . Twelve years ago, when the GSI first started work here, these badlands were isolated. But with the continued Read More... Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:53 AM by kwilliams | 6 Comments

• Driving's an Adventure from Andhra Pradesh to Gokak

  Over the weekend we finished up our work in the state of Andhra Pradesh . Although we didn't see a lot of fossil bone, we're confident that the 3 tons of sediment that we sieved will lead to some good discoveries back at the lab under the microscopes. Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:10 PM by kwilliams | 0 Comments

• A Brush with the Law

  So I had my first run-in with the law here. On Sunday, Mr. Anantharaman worked with two workers washing sediment in the stream, while 10 kilometers away I collected sediment with two workers and our driver (Tirupathi). At the end of the day, Tirupathi Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:06 PM by kwilliams | 3 Comments

• Getting Reacquainted with India

  I've been here nearly a week and our work is humming along pretty nicely right now. We have four workers from the village of Naskal that now know exactly what we're doing and how to do it, which is great. We've collected and sieved about three tons of Read More... Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 1:01 PM by kwilliams | 1 Comments Filed under: Travel, Research, Science

• Working in the Field Near the Village of Naskal

  Today was our third day in the field. We've been working at a locality near the village of Naskal, about 68 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh . It's where the first mammal fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs in India were found. Besides me, the Read More... Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 12:56 PM by kwilliams | 0 Comments Filed under: Travel, Research, Science

• First Day in Hyderabad, India

  It's 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday here in Hyderabad, India . I actually wrote this entry earlier today, but as I was about to send it, the power went out, and I lost everything. Apparently, the city of Hyderabad has regularly scheduled power outages; this one Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:18 PM by kwilliams | 0 Comments Filed under: Travel, Research, Science

• The Search for Fossils in India

  Greg Wilson, PhD, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology During most of the Age of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era), India had a much more southerly position than it does today. It was positioned alongside Madagascar and was connected to South America via Antarctica. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:17 PM by kwilliams | 0 Comments Filed under: Travel, Research, Science