In the Field

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Katherine Maslenikov, Ichthyology Collection Manager, helps with underwater fieldwork along coral reefs in Roatan, Honduras.

Researcher Ana Bedoya Ovalle returns to Colombia to collect and study river-weed plants in South America.

Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.

Burke paleontologists travel to Zambia in search for answers to the most colossal extinction on earth.

A paleontology research expedition to Antarctica—one of the most difficult places to do fieldwork in the world.

The Burke’s Paleontology team ventured to the Petrified Forest and found specimens that can answer questions about the Late Triassic period.