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An NSF-funded workshop project led by Field Museum Adjunct Curator Robert Lücking received world-wide attention through a report in the international science business journal International Innovation. The article highlights Robert's training activities in Latin America and focuses on the particular situation in Colombia, where the project has developed substantial scientific expertise in short time.
You cannot always get to all the events the Bird Division is involved in.
An incredible juvenile plumage of an Amazonian bird goes unknown for 180 years - not any more.
On April 9, 2013 the Field Museum's Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies has obtained more than 2.2 pounds and 234 pieces of the Chelyabinsk meteorite through a donation of meteorite collector Terry Boudreaux. Pieces of the meteorite are available for scientific research. Research on that meteorite will help us better understand the history of the solar system in particular its collisional history. The donation was extensively covered by the media. The Chelyabinsk meteorites will be on public display at the Field Museum starting Wednesday afternoon, April 9, 2013.
Using the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) at the Field Museum's Elemental Analysis Facility, I hope to reconstruct ancient rituals from 5,000-year-old ceremonial floors in Peru.
Last month, I submitted my first paper to a scholarly journal. It grew out of my work on LinEpig...
Watch an interview with the curator of the new exhibit at the Field Museum about prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux!
The first scientific paper describing the almost local meteorite Mifflin that fell on April 14, 2010 in southwestern Wisconsin got published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator for Meteoritics and Polar StudiesPhilipp Heck is a member of the international consortium who studied the space rock and co-author of the study.