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Please check out our blogs and photos from our field work in Antarctica. For our expedition we are part of the Russian Antarctic Expedition and are also collaborating with the Geological Survey of India. Learn more at our Expeditions@FieldMuseum site.
Taxidermy allows people to better understand the biodiversity of the planet.
Thanks to the generous support of the Field Museum Women's Board, I have been studying stone tools to learn more about the lifeways of the ancient inhabitants of Peru.
fieldwork on East Africa's richest bat fauna
On September 24, Collections & Research Committee Member and private meteorite collector Terry Boudreaux donated and loaned specimens of a freshly fallen meteorite to the Museum’s Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies. The meteorite produced a fireball associated with a sonic boom before it hit the ground near Battle Mountain, NV on August 23. The meteorite is tentatively classified as an ordinary chondrite of type L6.
A two day Biosynthesis meeting was held on August 29 & 30, which worked toward the goal of engaging students of partnering institutions to aid in capturing data from scientific collections; thus relieving some of the taxonomic impediment.
Reflections on the discovery, announced this month, of an entirely new spider family discovered in Oregon caves.
There is nothing like a long car trip to appreciate the wonder of North American birds.
The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies hosts five high-school students and three undergraduate students students this summer. They receive a unique hands-on education with meteorite-related laboratory work and collections management projects. On our website and on our Facebook page we will feature brief presentations of them, their projects and experience at the RAPC.