By , November 23, 2015

Location: The Field Museum

Organizers: Satya Basu (M.Arch'15, AIADO, SAIC), Nicole Bitler Kuehnle (PhD candidate, Ecology and Evolution, UChicago) and Troy Pieper (MA'15, New Arts Jornalism, SAIC)

Guiding Topics: Microcosms / Utopias / Things in things

Attendees: Alejandro Acierto, Satya Basu, Nicole Bitler Kuehnle, Kera Mackenzie, Troy Pieper, Nicoletta Rousseva, Tina Tahir; Marissa Lee Benedict (Program Coordinator, Arts, Science & Culture, UChicago), Jaclyn Jakunski (Research Associate, Earl & Brenda Shapiro Center, SAIC), Julie Marie Lemon (Program Director & Curator, Arts, Science & Culture, UChicago), Dan Peterman (Associate Professor, UIC) 

Schedule: 

8:45 AM    Meet Lu Yao (PhD candidate, Ecology & Evolution, UChicago) in front of the South Entrance of the Field Museum

9:00 AM    “Field Kit” show & tell in the Human Origins Lab

9:10 AM    Primates Collections Tour with Lu Yao

9:30 AM    Bird Collections Tour with Josh Engel (Research Associate, The Field Museum)

10:00 AM    Invertebrates (including marine shells) Collections Tour with Jochen Gerber (Collections Manager in the Division of Invertebrates, The Field Museum)

10:30 AM    Fish Collections Tour with Tim Sosa (PhD canddiate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)

10:50 AM    Exhibit Walk-Through & Discussion

12:00 PM    Lunch in the Human Origins lab

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Satya Basu entering the backrooms of The Field Museum.

The Human Origins Lab, The Field Museum.

Specimens out for study in the Human Origins Lab at The Field Museum.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Tina Tahir's "field kit."

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Tina Tahir (left) and Nicoletta Rousseva (right) in the Human Origins Lab at The Field Museum.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Satya Basu (left) explains the use of his portable Camera Lucida, part of his "field kit," while Fellow Nicole Bitler (right) looks through the lens. 

FiField Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Tina Tahir looking through the Camera Lucida device; Fellow Nicoletta Rousevva (right).

Josh Engel (Research Assistant, The Field Museum) tours the Fellows through the Bird Collections.

Study skins being produced for the Bird Collection at The Field Museum.

Preparation room for bird study skins and skeletons at The Field Museum.

The bug room, for processing bird carcasses into skeletons, at The Field Museum.

Storage cabinets for the Field Museum's Bird Collection.

Wall of feathers, The Bird Collection at The Field Museum.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Alejandro Acierto takes a photo of an extinct Passenger Pigeon study skin, part of the Bird Collection at The Field Museum.

A drawer of eggs from the early 20th century, part of the Bird Collection at The Field Museum.

Josh Engel (Resarch Assistant, The Field Museum) describes contemporary versus historic practices of collecting bird specimens, and how this has radically shaped and changed the content of the Field's Bird Collection over the past 150 years.

Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow walking the halls of the Field Museum.

Crate housing a very small portion of the millions of specimens that compose the Invertebrates Collection at the Field Museum.

Jochen Gerber (Collections Manager in the Division of Invertebrates, The Field Museum) pulls out a unique glove made of mussel sea silk for the Field Trip / Field Guide / Field Notes Fellows.

Jochen Gerber (Collections Manager in the Division of Invertebrates, The Field Museum) shows the Fellows a meticulously crafted glass replica of a sea slug.

Shells gifted to The Field Museum by Oberlin College, waiting to be organized into the Invertebrates Collection.

(left to right) Field Trip / Field Guide / Field Notes Fellows Alejandro Acierto, Nicoletta Rousseva, Tina Tahir and Nicole Bitler on a tour of the Invertebrates Collection at the Field Museum.

The Fish Collection at the Field Museum.

Tim Sosa (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) gives a tour of the Fish Collection to the Field Trip / Field Guide / Field Notes Fellows.

Tim Sosa (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) gives a tour of the Fish Collection to the Field Trip / Field Guide / Field Notes Fellows.

 Field Trip / Field Guide / Field Notes Fellow Nicoletta Rousseva and Kera MacKenzie photograph a diorama under construction in the Hall of Mammals at The Field Museum.

Hall of Mammals, The Field Museum.

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