Fossils and Paleontology Fieldwork

Images of paleontologists examining fossils, collecting samples, and conducting research in various outdoor settings, showcasing scientific exploration.

Checking the Map, Strzelecki Track, Outback, South Australia, Australia

Amaltheus sp. Kind of ammonite with a cordate carina characteristic of the upper Pliensbachian stage (185 million years). Jean-Philippe Blouet, paleontologists. - Blouet brothers collection

A88472 U12G GAUGE INCLUSION TEST SHOT DAY CARL SMITH (PROJECT ENGINEER) APR 18 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/18/1988 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GAUGE INCLUSION TEST; HARD HATS; HARD-HATS; HILLS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SHOT DAY; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; U12G GAUGE INCLUSION TEST historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

S70-20272 (December 1969) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander of the upcoming Apollo 13 lunar landing mission, uses a scoop from the Apollo Lunar Hand Tools (ALHT) during a simulated lunar surface traverse at the Kapoho, Hawaii training site. While at the Hawaii training sites, Lovell and Haise are participating in thorough rehearsals of their extravehicular activity (EVA).

Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) being measured by field officers Caitlyn Pink and Jessica Bolton as part of a growth study, Christmas Island National Park, Australia

Dr. Robert Weems, emeritus paleontologist for the USGS verifies the recently discovered dinosaur track found on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center campus. This imprint shows the right rear foot of a nodosaur - a low-slung, spiny leaf-eater - apparently moving in haste as the heel did not fully settle in the cretaceous mud, according to dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford. It was found recently on NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center campus and is being preserved for study. To read more about this discovery go to a href= http //1.usa.gov/P9NYg7 rel= nofollow 1.usa.gov/P9NYg7 /a

A88474 U12G GAUGE INCLUSION TEST SHOT DAY CARL SMITH (PROJECT ENGINEER) APR 18 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/18/1988 CAMERAS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GAUGE INCLUSION TEST; HARD HATS; HARD-HATS; HILLS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); SHOT DAY; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; U12G GAUGE INCLUSION TEST historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Dr. Robert Weems, emeritus paleontologist for the USGS verifies the recently discovered dinosaur track found on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center campus.This imprint shows the right rear foot of a nodosaur - a low-slung, spiny leaf-eater - apparently moving in haste as the heel did not fully settle in the cretaceous mud, according to dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford. It was found recently on NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center campus and is being preserved for study. To read more about this discovery go to: http://1.usa.gov/P9NYg7

Scientist inspecting the submerged nest of Divers Quebec

Checking the Map, Strzelecki Track, Outback, South Australia, Australia

South Western Ethiopia, Omo Valley, Southern Mursiland, Archaeologist; Dirikoro

RSPB scientist studying aquatic invertebrate adundance as part of Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) research, Forsinard Flows RSPB reserve, Flow Country, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland, UK, June 2011. Model released

Checking the Map, Flinders Ranges, Outback, South Australia, Australia

Scientific measurements on a nest of Mcqueen Bustards

USA, California, Death Valley, Young geologist on Devil's Golfcourse

Goddard Space Centers Laura Duncanson records global positioning satellite coordinates of the Pongara Mangrove and tree heights and diameters.

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Archaeologist excavating skeleton

Archaeologist excavating skeleton

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Chris Nicholai recording Brant nest at Tutakoke Bird Camp, Coast of the Bering Sea just south of Hooper Bay, Alaska, near Chevak, Alaska. This image taken between June 14 - June 20, 2006. Subjects: Work of the Service; Avian Influenza; Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

A810226 VANDENBERG AFB AIR SHOCK INSTRUMENTATION BEN BENJAMIN (Project Engineer) MAR 25 81EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/25/1981 AIR SHOCK; AIR SHOCK INSTRUMENTATION; BENJAMIN, BENJAMIN CODY; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); GRASS; GRASS FAMILIES; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; POLES; TEST SITES; TRUCKS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VANDENBERG AFB; VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE; VANDENBERG INSTRUMENTATION; WIRE & CABLES; VANDENBERG AFB-AIR SHOCK historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) being scanned with handheld device by field officer Caitlyn Pink, Christmas Island National Park, Australia

Spectral Testing.

Dinosaur Dig - wooden frame & jacket being attached to protect Tyrannosaurus Rex pelvis bone.

Chuck Rogers, Trong Bui, and Scott Bartel make preflight checks on the second of two aerospike research rockets on March 31, 2004.

Archaeological excavations, human skeleton remains, found in an ancient tomb. . Archaeological Excavations - Ancient Human Skeleton

Examining specimens and recording data, Salamander Biology class field trip, Deep Gap, NC, North Carolina

Biologists prepare a tag for a nutria. The animals are trapped in order to tag them to better understand the habits of nutria and preventing their spreading. Subjects: Aquatic animals; Invasive species; Mammals; Rodents; Wildlife management; Trapping; Tagging; Biologists (USFWS). Location: Oregon.

Analyzing a sample plant biologist France

Researchers with nectar feeder

In a series of three workshops in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, the Asheville Field Office got area teachers into the field to explore water quality and stream monitoring. During each of the one-day workshops the teachers tested water chem. Descriptive Note: Images taken at Deep Creek Campground, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Swain County, North Carolina. Subjects: Water management; Sampling; Education outreach; Partnerships; Water conservation. Location: North Carolina.

A female wildlife biologist measuring a frog in the field.

A Tiny Brook Trout Being Measured And Weighted During A Stream Survey In New Hampshire

Chris Nicholai capturing and testing Brants at Tutakoke Bird Camp. Image taken between June 14 - June 20, 2006. Subjects: Work of the Service; Avian Influenza; Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

Botanist Wilson Baker and Tom Patrick observe Lindera melissifolia flowers Pondberry, Lindera melissifolia botany. Lindera melissifolia; research; botanist; pondberry; Endangered species; Georgia Natural Heritage Program; Georgia; Coastal environments Pl. Descriptive Note: Botanists Wilson Baker and Tom Patrick observe flower parts of Lindera melissifolia (pondberry) in Georgia. Subjects: Endangered species; Flowering plants; Research. Location: Alaska.

Archaeology student works at an archaeological dig site at the Unicorn Cave in Germany; Germany

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) student Piper Lovegreen calibrates a sensor to measure leaf chlorophyl content of vegetation at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve in Santa Barbara County on March 23, 2022. Lovegreen is among the researchers working on the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series (SHIFT) campaign, which is jointly led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCSB, and The Nature Conservancy. Operating between late February and late May 2022, SHIFT combines the ability of airborne science instruments to gather data over widespread areas with the more concentrated observations scientists conduct in the field to study the functional characteristics, health, and resilience of plant communities. The sampling and analysis done by researchers on the ground and in the ocean is intended to validate data taken by AVIRIS-NG (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation). The instrument, designed at JPL, is collecting spectral data of

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Training. Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.

Arabian Leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) researcher Waleed Al'Rail checking camera trap, Hawf Protected Area, Yemen

Pinilla del Valle (Madrid), 06/09/2015. Archaeological sites of Pinilla del Valle. Neanderthal Valley Project. Photo: Isabel Permuy ARCHDC.

North America, Canada, Quebec, Gaspe Peninsula (Gaspesie). Scientist at fossil dig, Miguasha National Park (MR)

Juliet Page, a physical scientist with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, calibrates a microphone station during the CarpetDIEM flight series. The array featured high-fidelity microphones arranged in several configurations, giving researchers the ability to obtain accurate sound data and assess the loudness of the sonic booms, just as they will measure the quiet sonic thumps from the X-59.

Dr Gideon Groenewald (R) and tourist searching for dinosaurs near Clarence. Eastern Free State. South Africa.

Amazon Walker

Sea Cucumber (Actinopyga lecanora) measured during harvest, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Researcher holding a Japanese Giant Salamander juvenile

Researchers measure an opuntia cactus on South Plaza Island as part of an ongoing project to track the ecological changes to the

Biologists processing a dying alligator in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.

A man looking for trilobites.

Artifact examined by Secretary Gale Norton during her tour of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, near Coolidge, Arizona. The visit, including tours and discussions with National Park Service staff, was part of Secretary's Earth Day-related Western trip

Mid-aged couple view fossils in rocks at Island Lake Resort in the Lizard Range near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada.

A man prepares to launch a model of a Little John rocket at Springfest in Nevada's Jean Dry Lake.

Researcher gathers data from soil plots, Needles District, Canyonlands NP, UT

Researcher examining a captured butterfly at Whistler BioBlitz event, Whistler, British Columbia

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Levi Hanish, left, and Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Michael Kaye, right, transfer the sample return capsule from NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission to a cradle, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

$Beekeeper or apiculturist checking the honey's water and sugar content with a refractometer$

Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobita) biologist, Juan Reppucci, checking camera trap, Abra Granada, Andes, northwestern Argentina

Biologist Ingi Agnarsson collecting kleptoparasitic spiders that live as squatters in the web of the giant orb weaver, Papua New Guinea

Dr. Robert Weems, emeritus paleontologist for the USGS verifies the recently discovered dinosaur track found on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center campus. This imprint shows the right rear foot of a nodosaur - a low-slung, spiny leaf-eater - apparently moving in haste as the heel did not fully settle in the cretaceous mud, according to dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford. It was found recently on NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center campus and is being preserved for study. To read more about this discovery go to a href= http //1.usa.gov/P9NYg7 rel= nofollow 1.usa.gov/P9NYg7 /a

Researcher cataloguing lizard specimens for DNA analysis, Socotra, Yemen, march

Measuring radiation levels of vegetable

An adult explorer in a cork helmet over an old wooden table paves a route using old maps. Cork Helmet Explorer

William Saturno, at San Bartolo excavation of Maya Mural depicting Corn god myth dating prior to 100 AD, found in Maya pyramid, previously thought to date to Classical period 250 AD, Guatemala.

Herpetologist checking pitfall during survey research, amphibians captured along drift fence are measured, marked and released, Italy

220913-N-ML137-1052 KEKAHA, Hawai`i (Sept. 8, 2022) Daniela Casillas, an avian technician at Save Our Shearwaters (SOS), releases a banded wedge-tailed shearwater during a volunteer event at Waiokapua (commonly known as Majors Bay) at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. This event is a training opportunity for members from both PMRFs and SOSs environmental teams in preparation for the Dark Skies program. PMRF is the worlds largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

Men measuring Gharial of the gange Nepal

Forest, research and woman environmentalist test water sample for inspection of the ecosystem and environment study. Science, sustainable and professional scientist doing carbon footprint exam

Geologist exploring for minerals, Salmon Glacier area, Stewart, British Columbia

Researcher from the Succulent Karoo Research Station during telemetry of a Four-Striped Grass Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) in Goegap Nature Reserve, Namaqualand, South Africa, Africa

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Germany, near Nebra, Bronze Age, Excavation of Mittelberg hill, Mound where sky disk was unearthed

Four LPSA interns test the clay at Bonnie Claire Playa, another location where the rocks move, to see how quickly water is absorbed. Interns, clockwise: Kyle Yawn (standing), Gregory Romine, Emily Kopp, and Clint Naquin.

researcher checking swing gates in a game fence. gates used to prevent cheetahs entering game reserve

jsc2018e060231 (06/19/2018) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jonny Kim during earth and planetary science training in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument Upper Gorge Area near Questa, N.M.

salinity test, Flor de Sal del Trenc, guided tour, Salobrar de Campos, Campos del Puerto, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe.

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http //quest.arc.nasa.gov/

CANADA, ALBERTA, DRUMHELLER, ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM, TOURISTS ON DINOSAUR DIG

Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) biologists candling egg to check on development of the embryo, Codfish Island, Southland, New Zealand

Fish and Wildlife Service worker measuring mallard eggs for study. Vertical. Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Pollutants;Waterfowl. Collection: Environmental Sciences.. 1998 - 2011.

jsc2018e060160 (06/19/2018) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Bob Hines during earth and planetary science training in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument Upper Gorge Area near Questa, N.M.

Luc Ebbo, paleontologist in search of fossils. Albian blue marls of Sisteron. Ebbo collection

Chris Nicholai capturing and testing Brants. This image taken between June 14 - June 20, 2006. Subjects: Work of the Service; Avian Influenza; Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Training. Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.

Sulfur dioxide gas emissions from the crater of Puu ? ? on K?lauea’s east rift zone and the vent within Halemaumau Crater at K?lauea’s summit create volcanic pollution that affects the air quality of downwind communities. Here, a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory gas geochemist measures Puu ?? gas emissions using an instrument that detects gas compositions on the basis of absorbed infrared light..

USGS grass researcher, Needles District, Canyonlands NP, UT

Man scientist testing quality of water in river

Two women field biologists gather data for a 50 year ongoing forest succession study.

Bat researcher Sergio Estrada releasing bat after catching it in mist net, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Tourist with skeleton of Brydes whale, Fernandina, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Sir David Attenborough with fossil hunter Chris Moore looking at the bones of a giant Ichthyosaur fossil whilst filming the BBC special 'Attenborough and the Sea Dragon', Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, 2016. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

jsc2019e054977 (09-16-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidates gather during geology training in Arizona.

Ranger explaining details about the Scribbly gum (Eucalyptus haemastoma), Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar accompaning teachers (learning for the the classroom) Ames video crew L-R, Eric Land (on sound), Bill Moede (on camera) and Jessie Carpenter interview Chris McKay

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) researcher Liu Bing measuring claw marks of Xiang Xiang, the first captive raised panda released in the wild, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Searching for queens at the conservancy apiary of Ouessant

Mature man examining trail camera on tree trunk in forest

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Lafourche, Louisiana (BP Oil Spill) - Mark Helmlinger and assistant Mitch use photospectrometer to test for airborne hydrocarbons (not affiliated with EPA) Lafourche, LA. , Environmental Protection Agency

Pulitzer prize winning entomologist Dr. E. O. Wilson examines epiphyte for insects, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

At the site where on 19 September 1961 an alien spaceship landed and she and her husband Barney were taken on board, Betty Hill describes the incident to investigators. Date: 1961 / 2000

Egypt, Valley of the Mummies, Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Giza Monuments

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