field work

Edward Ricketts built his laboratory just onshore from the swirling tidepools of Monterey Bay, California, an ideal backdrop against which he developed a new system for studying the ecology of any given habitat.

Scientists who work with foreign biological specimens face a patchwork of permits that threaten to block their projects, with potentially harmful consequences for the ecosystems they study.

Flames and smoke have killed dozens of people over the past month and burned hundreds of thousands of acres, causing massive disruptions.

Cases of dengue were greatly reduced in areas of a city where Wolbachia-infected mosquitos were released, according to preliminary data from a field study.

Unable to travel to international or remote sites, some researchers are losing critical data.

An undergraduate research project finds the animals are tuned in to reassuring information from other species.

Under lockdown in a hotel, members of a plant ecology course continue to work and study as they seek a way to return home.

The invertebrate predators prey on and lay their eggs near emerging tadpoles, potentially threatening the conservation of endangered frogs, researchers find.

Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago has hosted decades of research in cognition, primatology, immunization, and other areas.

Marie Claire speaks with researchers who’d reported abuse in studies of harassment in the field.

A heat block, a truck battery, and a novel RNA amplification assay make for in-the-field surveillance of the virus.

Human visitors to camera traps display, well, human behavior.

A cetacean succumbed to a fungal infection shortly after being darted by researchers seeking to learn more about the species’ migrations and population dynamics.

Scenes from illustrator Jim Jourdane’s Fieldwork Fail: The Messy Side of Science

An artist aims to publish a collection of stories of science gone awry.

Researchers with disabilities are making their fields more accessible.

Scientists air their most embarrassing fieldwork flubs on Twitter.

Bats' special relationship with pathogens

Watch University of Florida biologist Leonid Moroz describe his novel approach aboard his floating genome sequencing lab.