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

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. Recovery team members prepare the sample return capsule from NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission for transport to the cleanroom, 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.

A780655 ELY, NV ULF STUDY JOHN A BROUILLARD MAY 22 78 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/22/1978 BROUILLARD, A JOHN; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; ELY, NEVADA; ELY, NV; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TESTING; UGT; ULF STUDY; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WIRE & CABLES; ELY, NEVADA - ULF STUDY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Neolithic engravings created by hunter-gatherers following herds that sought feeding grounds in the mountains, Yagour Plateau, Tadla-Azilal, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Ju/'Hoansi-San man demonstrating setting a snare trap, at the Living Museum of the Ju/'Hoansi-San, Grashoek, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia, Africa.

Guide with petrified wood at Petrified Forest, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa.

USGS geologists gathered samples by hand from vents on the dome and crater floor. Additionally, sulfur dioxide gas was measured from a specially equipped airplane before, during, and after eruptions to determine 'emission rates' for the volcano. 9/24/1981.

jsc2019e054855 (09-16-19) --- 2017 NASA astronaut candidates Jessica Watkins (center) and Raja Chari (right) with field instructors during geology training in Arizona.

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

Stones of Makhtesh Ramon, unique crater in Israel

Neolithic engravings, from 4000 years ago, created by hunter-gatherers following herds that sought feeding grounds in the mountains. and trekkers, Yagour Plateau, Tadla-Azilal, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

USA, Hawaii, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Tourist examining molten lava with stick

Dr. Frank Sulloway attemps to collect a specimen from a nest of invasive wasps during an expedition to Vulcan Alcedo on Isabella

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

Zimbabwe, Matusadona National Park, Trailists Looking At A Fossilised Tree At Mashonaland.

Behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency poses for pictures Nov. 1 after planting a tree in his name I a ceremonial pre-flight tradition. Wakata, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin are preparing for their launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station.NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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/

Ethiopia, South Western Ethiopia, Omo Valley, Southern Mursiland, Archeology work; Dirikoro

sizes of stones

USGS employee conducts measurement at USGS gage 03198500 in Big Coal River at Ashford WV ca. 2010.

27-year-old researcher working on nitrogen exchange between bacteria and the roots of legumes in the rainforest at the "La Selva" research station in Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

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/

Dwarf Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) researcher Jonathan Stern, San Juan Islands, Washington

Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum) researchers looking at and measuring individual migrating to upland habitat, Aptos, Monterey Bay, California

Director and student work together on discoveries in a museum at a university from the Unicorn Cave in Germany

Guide with petrified wood at Petrified Forest, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa.

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

Entomologist and photographer Dr. Mark Moffett examines an epiphyte for ants, French Guiana

Specimens are collected using trap lines in the foothills of Mount Gorongosa in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique; Mozambique

Archaeologist Tyler Olsen with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 22, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

S71-59355 (17-18 Nov. 1971) --- Astronauts John W. Young, right, prime crew commander for Apollo 16, and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, study rock formations along their simulated lunar traverse route. The prime and backup commanders and lunar module pilots for Apollo 16 took part in the two-day geology field trip and simulations in the Coso Range, near Ridgecrest, California, about 160 miles north by northeast of Los Angeles. The training and simulations were conducted Nov. 17 and 18, 1971, at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station.

. VERITAS Scientists Study Rocky Terrain in Iceland. During their August 2023 Iceland field campaign, international science team members of NASA's VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy) mission prepare for lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) imaging of rocks at a study area. Lidar measurements of rocky terrain can provide information about the material, such as surface roughness. While the science team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gathered lidar data on the ground, their partners from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) carried out overflights to gather radar observations of the same study areas. By doing this, the team was able to ground-truth the radar data that will be used to help inform the science that VERITAS will do at Venus. VERITAS will peer through the planet's thick atmosphere with a suite of powerful science instruments to create global maps of Venus' surface - including topograp

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/

Checking on a map the habitats of Koalas Redland Shire

Archaeologist Tyler Olsen with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 14, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez visits a USAID-funded archeological site in Petra, Jordan, on October 24, 2011.

A88241 U12N INCLUSION EXPERIMENT PRE BOOSTER TEST ROD SHEAR/JIM TALBUTT (PROJECT ENGINEER) FEB 10 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/10/1988 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INCLUSION EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MALES; MAN; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PRE BOOSTER TEST; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; WIRES; U12G INCLUSION EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

. PHOTO DATE: 10-04-22LOCATION: Flagstaff, ArizonaSUBJECT: Joint EVA Test Team (JETT) Field Testing - JETT 3 fully integrated mission scale testPHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD

Material for the ringing and the biometry of birds

Loggerhead sea turtle satelitte tracking project Understanding where loggerheads nesting in the United States go after they leave the nesting beach, what routes they take to get there, and where the principle feeding areas are located will help us learn. Descriptive Note: Florida media witness the loggerhead turtle with satellite transmitter return to the sea near Melbourne Fl., Aug. 20, 1999. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS. l-r) Barbara Schroeder, NMFS, Dr. Llew Ehrhart, UCF & Sandy MacPherson, USFWS, put the finishing t. Subjects: Loggerhead sea turtle satelitte tracking project; Loggerhead Sea Turtle.

Researcher locates a loggerhead sea turtle nest. (MR)

Archaeologist Tyler Olsen with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 22, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) horn being drilled to allow radio transmitter antenna to protrude, Great Karoo, South Africa

Biological researchers conduct their work in the field. (MR)

Biologist testing quality of stream water

La Palma (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), November 1971. Eruption of the Teneguia volcano. In the image, volcanologist Professor José María Fuste observes the development of the eruption that erupts from the two craters of "Teneguía". Photo: Jaime Pato.

jsc2017e043076 (April 13, 2017) --- At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 crewmember Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) helps crewmate Jack Fischer of NASA (left) plant a tree in Fischers name April 13 as part of traditional pre-launch activities. Fischer and Yurchikhin will liftoff April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

A prospector holds up a specimen of a gold nugget. Focus on prospector's face

Scientists Looking for Horned Parakeet with a transmitter

Researcher Stephen Spear looking and Eastern Hellbender, (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), Cooper's Creek, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, USA (MR)

Telemetric monitoring desLapins marked with microchip

Researchers capturing and banding peregrine falcons.

Naro bushman (San) squeezing a milkplant root (Raphionacme burkei) for water, Central Kalahari, Botswana

Volcanologists check sulfur fumaroles and chloride crusts on the crater rim, Gran Cratere, Vulcano Island, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy, Europe

An SUV-sized Asteroid 2008TC# Impacts on October 7, 2008 in the Nubian Desert, Northern Sudan Dr. Peter Jenniskens, NASA/SETI joined Muawia Shaddas of the University of Khartoum in leading an expedition on a search for samples. (meteorite find 3rd trip 1)

Scientist holds a fossililized clam shell (Molluscs), found in a talus slope.

STS-89 Pilot Joe Edwards Jr., prepares to drive an M-113 armored personnel carrier as George Hoggard, a training officer with KSC Fire Services, looks on during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities. The TCDT is held at KSC prior to each Space Shuttle flight to provide crews with an opportunity to participate in simulated countdown activities. The STS-89 mission will be the eighth docking of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. After docking, Dr. Thomas will transfer to the space station, succeeding David Wolf, M.D., who will return to Earth aboard Endeavour. Dr. Thomas will live and work on Mir until June. STS-89 is scheduled for a Jan. 22 liftoff at 9:48 p.m

The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Here, the capsule is being lifted at the landing site.

Biologist Sheda Morshed checks mammal traps, Kerman, Iran

Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) biologist, Stephen Spear, tests water for salamander DNA to determine presence or absence of species, Hiwassee River, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee

Columbia River Fisheries Program Office staff member holds an adult Pacific lamprey. Subjects: Fishes.

Researchers of the Biodiversity Group of the University of Duisburg-Essen labelling water samples at Grietherbusch in the Lower Rhine region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Ant researcher, Gary Alpert observing ant garden, French Guiana

An SUV-sized Asteroid 2008TC# Impacts on October 7, 2008 in the Nubian Desert, Northern Sudan Dr. Peter Jenniskens, NASA/SETI joined Muawia Shaddas of the University of Khartoum in leading an expedition on a search for samples. (first one found)

Africa, Egypt, Giza plateau. Dr. Mark Lehner in royal production center.

Sound recorder in a forest Madagascar

Biologist testing quality of stream water

Ichthyological field studies Ichthyological field studies. Fish and device in old table. Weighing, measuring, scaling, taking tissue samples from river fish, study populations and pollution. Grayling Th. thymallus. Scandinavia Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximilianxBuzunx 14562550

Iceland archeology

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology, or ALHAT, field at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the media view the hazard field and speak with Morpheus managers. At left, in the blue shirt is Gregory Gaddis, Kennedy Project Morpheus/ALHAT site manager.Testing of the prototype lander had been ongoing at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation for its first free-flight test at Kennedy Space Center. The SLF will provide the lander with the kind of field necessary for realistic testing, complete with rocks, craters and hazards to avoid. Morpheus utilizes an autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, payload that will allow it to navigate to clear landing sites amidst rocks, craters and other hazards during its descent. Project Morpheus is one of 20 small projects comprising the Advanced Exploration Systems, or AES, program in NASAs Human Expl

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