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Fossil Invertebrate intern Alex describes his 2011 summer project involving the digitization of Chicago Silurian reef invertebrate fossils at the Field Museum.
Over the past few weeks my knowledge of photography has expanded exponentially.
This years has been a truly international year for the Botany Department - the lichen research group, lead by Associate Curator and Botany Chair Thorsten Lumbsch and Collections Manager and Adjunct Curator Robert Luecking alone had visitors from all continents (except Antarctica) visiting the museum to work with their research group.
Thorsten Lumbsch and Robert Luecking are working on a collaborative project with about 50 colleagues worldwide funded by the National Science Foundation.
I am now more than half way through my internship, and beginning to do some more engaging tasks.
A recent visitor to the museum's Division of Insects from Nanjing, China brought bags full of exciting fossil beetle specimens with him. Read on for an update...
With access to Ebird, I can record data on the birds I see even on vacation
Peter Pyle visits our collections for project on molt patterns in Chilean birds
Field Museum researchers at the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies have received a second target foil from the Interstellar Dust Collector onboard NASA's Stardust Mission - that returned the first solid extraterrestrial material to Earth from beyond the Moon.
Last Thursday and Friday, June 21 and 22, Kirsty Gillespie visited the museum to look at our Lihir collection.