Field Research News

From the Field posts Museum Scientists' Favorite National Parks We canvassed curators and collections managers from around the Museum for their favorite national parks. Here are their travel recommendations! September 1, 2016 From the Field posts Field Journal: Tracking and Trapping a Bear It took quite some time and a lot of patience, but we’ve trapped a bear! Here's what happens now. July 25, 2016 From the Field posts Field Journal: How to Collar A Bear To understand how bears and humans live together, we have to first learn where the bears are, says Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. July 21, 2016 From the Field posts Field Journal: Living Alongside Bears Center for Biodiversity and Conservation researcher Rae Wynn-Grant tracks bears in the American West, hoping to prevent them from... July 14, 2016 From the Field posts Analyzing Leech Meals to Track Cambodian Mammals During an expedition to Cambodia, Museum researchers experimented with a new method of tracking endangered animals by analyzing the... July 8, 2016 From the Field posts Field Journal: Finding Ghosts The team encounters one of the most poorly known birds in the world—an elusive kingfisher previously glimpsed just once in the wild. September 23, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: The Sound of Dawn in Guadalcanal Dawn is a magical time, especially for those interested in birds, whose choruses of sound at first light in tropical forests is something... September 21, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: Chupukama Camp Emerges Chupukama Camp will be our base and the expedition's "city center" for the next week of surveys, exploration, and discovery. September 18, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: Dawn on a Sky Island The cultural and scientific significance of the area we are surveying on this expedition are closely intertwined. September 15, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: Arrival in the Solomon Islands Arriving in the Solomon Islands, where any shift in light or wind could reveal some of the world's least studied bird species. September 14, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: The Link Between Conservation and Nutrition This summer, Georgina Cullman from the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation worked in the Solomon Islands on a project... September 2, 2015 From the Field posts Field Journal: The Business End Of A DNA Database Researchers are building a new DNA database on a foundation of primate poop. July 30, 2015