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ientific understanding of tectonic shift and evolutionary biology, particularly of large scale carnivorous theropods. Dr. Hammer received his undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from Wayne State University and joined the Augustana faculty in 1981 after a two-year National Science Foundation post- doctoral research appointment. He made his first trip to search for fossil vertebrates as a graduate student, and since then has led seven expeditions to various localities near Beardmore and Shackleton Glaciers and in Southern Victoria Land in search of Mesozoic age vertebrates. He is the Director of the Fryxell Geology Museum and the Director of Polar Studies at Augustana College. He is also a Research Associate of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Since coming to Augustana, he has had the continued support for his research from the National Science Foundation and has published over forty articles in professional journals -- including Science, Journal of Paleontology and the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Dr. Hammer received the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States from the National Science Foundation and is a Fellow the Geological Society of America. Two fossil species -- Glacialisaurus hammeri and Rostosuchus hammeri bear his name, and in 2008, Mt. Augustana -- a 9000 foot peak in the Transantarctic Mountains -- was named in recognition of his thirty years of Antarctic research -- twenty-six of them while at Augustana College.