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March 27th, 2013
Young people provide community access to fresh, healthy food via the Calumet Environmental Education Program (CEEP)
November 08th, 2012
Field Museum scientists and an international team of collaborators conducted fieldwork in New Caledonia - where they collected a group of plants commonly called bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), ferns, as well as a group of organisms called lichens. New Caledonia is one of the world’s 35 biodiversity hotspots (and one of the smallest—about the size of New Jersey) with exceptional biological and ecological diversity.
September 19th, 2012
Research Associate Jake Esselstyn and Colleagues describe new earth-worm eating rat from montane forests.
August 28th, 2012
Alexandra G. Rivera reflects on her experience participating in The Field Museum's ECCo Division's Mighty Acorns program for 4th-6th graders.
August 28th, 2012
The Field Museum's ECCo division hosted nine Chicago high school students that took action by connecting children to nature.
August 12th, 2012
Graduate student and research scientist and colleagues discover and describe new barbet from the foothills of the eastern Peruvian Andes.
February 14th, 2012
ECCo builds on uncanny "Calumet moments" to build serious Calumet momentum.
January 03rd, 2012
The Calumet Stewardship Initiative is proud to announce a five-part volunteer workday leader training course for 2012.
December 14th, 2011
This fall over 700 Chicago Public Schools students from the Calumet region participated in Mighty Acorns field trips supported by The Field Museum’s Calumet Environmental Education Program (CEEP) staff.
September 28th, 2011
The economy and environment of the south suburbs were the focus of the evening.