(Undated)--A University of Rhode Island professor is off to find Amelia Earhart's airplane.Oceanography professor Robert Ballard and his team are traveling on a research vessel to Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean, where it is believed Earhart may have crashed in 1937 when she tried to fly around the world.Ballard says if his team finds the wreck, and with the permission from the Republic of Kiribati, it plans to raise portions of the plane, including its engines, for conservation and preservation.National Geographic is involved in the trip.