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Geology Department
The Geology Department at The Field Museum is focused on paleontology, systematics, evolutionary theory and meteoritics. Most of the department's paleontologists take an interdisciplinary approach in their research programs, combining fossil and living organisms together to extract information of broad evolutionary significance. Current research within the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies is on presolar grains to afford insights into our parent stars and the history of our Galaxy.
The Field Museum collections of fossils and meteorites are world renowned, drawing researchers from around the globe to study them. The scientists in the Department of Geology, together with colleagues at local universities, form one of the nation's largest concentrations of paleontologists, and one of the key meteoritics research groups in the world. The Department's staff are active in education through the training of graduate and undergraduate students, the development of exhibits, and a number of special programs for the public.
Our Collections
Collected over the last 100 years or so, the paleontological collections rank among the world's ten largest and include millions of individual fossilized organisms. While numerically smaller, the meteorite collection is also of outstanding importance and in terms of size is the largest collection in a private...
