Dr. Maureen O’Leary on “Collecting Fossils in the Sahara Desert of Mali”
On September 17, 2019, Dr. Maureen O’Leary presented the first Fall STEM Lecture at the University Libraries about her late 1990s expeditions in the Sahara Desert of Mali. The current region of the Sahara Desert was once the ancient Trans-Saharan Seaway of Africa, which existed 50 to 100 million years