Engineering a new way to see dinosaurs
| August 30, 2007 |  View for printing |
With the eye of an electrical engineer, Nels Peterson is hoping to bring a new, high-tech tool to the field excavation of dinosaurs, a labor of picks, shovels and brushes that has changed little over the past 100 years.
"Only a small group of people ever get to excavate a particular dinosaur," said Peterson, a 2005 electrical engineering graduate from Montana State University. "An excavation is like being in the audience of a Shakespeare play. For those who weren't there, they have to read the play or, worse, read a review. A lot of information is lost. I'm trying to bridge that gap."
By Tracy Ellig, MSU News Service
Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwvi ... rticle=5074
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