Faces of Fieldwork

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! What is the biggest misconception people have about your #fieldwork? What do people just not get? We would love to feature your story and photo on facesoffieldwork.com! You can submit directly on the website! facesoffieldwork.com

absolutely true!

Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions | Nature Ecology and Evolution nature.com/articles/s4155…

Totally agree! Showing the world that field scientists are people first and foremost is what we are all about!

#fieldwork in the Afar of Ethiopia is hard, esp. at Mille-Logya, where outcrops are littered with sharp basalt cobbles that shred tires and boots. But, after years of hard work, today we report new evidence of the environ. context of the origins of Homo! nature.com/articles/s4146…

What impact is #Covid_19 having on your #fieldwork planning?

Using a camera trap to see what is attracted towards our @goodnaturetraps before setting it up. Amazing to see that tenrec is alo attracted to the rat trap @facesfieldwork

There is some amazing primate #fieldwork being done by members of the @gwmurraylab. Check out @sean_leezy's work on bonobos, for example!

Twitter! If you've participated in fieldwork, please could you send me some pictures from your fieldwork that you wouldn't mind me using in a presentation? I am looking to have photos from a range of difficult disciplines to showcase the diversity of fieldwork! Thank you!

I feel seen.

Here is the dining tent where we eat all our meals in the Afar. It’s a very remote place, so we mostly eat simple things like spaghetti and rice. A special treat is when we get hand cut French fries and local goat! #MilleLogya @PAStamos @Zeray_Alemseged @facesfieldwork

It is hot in the Afar. Really hot. Here we are hunkering down under a rare shade tree taking a quick break from fossil hunting. @facesfieldwork @Zeray_Alemseged @PAStamos @spmcpherron #millelogya

Hominin fossils are very rare, so most of what we find are the bones of animals that lived alongside early hominins. Here we are excacating the tooth of ~2.5 million year old elephant. @facesfieldwork @Zeray_Alemseged @PAStamos @spmcpherron

Good morning from the Afar region of Ethiopia! I’m here with @Zeray_Alemseged, @PAStamos and @spmcpherron looking for hominin fossils at the Mille-Logya field project. @facesfieldwork

Back in the field doing some drift fence survey, caught a #Seychelles skink. Beautiful #reptile @facesfieldwork @SIF_Seychelles

I am hiring a postdoc to join my lab, starting August 1. I am open to a variety of research methods/approaches to hominin paleoecology in the African Plio-Pleistocene. Applications are due February 10th. Please retweet widely! gwu.jobs/postings/73598

#FlashbackThursday to the wonderful #Uganda #fieldwork @facesfieldwork @eliaskabpin @trienekens @PoppyLamberton

What would be the “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” of fieldwork? Modified from @ChelseaParlett

The yellow crazy ants task force in the Seychelles. Great to be back in the field. #girlpower. @facesfieldwork @SIF_Seychelles

So cool!

Students with interests in paleoanthropology #fieldwork are encouraged to apply!