Alan Dundes

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

American Educator

Sarah Parcak

Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.

American Scientist

Greg Graffin

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

American Musician

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists - you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they're 70.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Richard Leakey

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Kenyan Environmentalist

Margaret Mead

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Fieldwork involves actively doing tasks, not just reading about them.

Active Participation

Fieldwork takes place outside traditional learning or professional environments.

Outside Routine Spaces

Fieldwork applies theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios.

Real-World Application

Military fieldwork often refers to temporary fortifications, not permanent ones.

Temporary Structures

Fieldwork in a military sense is primarily for protection or strategic advantage.

Protective Measure

For geographers, fieldwork is crucial for experiencing diverse environments firsthand.

Geography-Specific

Fieldwork in geography develops practical skills like map-reading and data collection.

Practical Skills

 fieldwork what's the longest you've gone without a shower uh uh you know probably about a month because Mongolia happens to be quite a dry place a lot of a lot of the time so it's been it's been up to a month at times and it's kind of difficult because in Mongolia you know and when somebody said hello to you they

125th Anniversary...

 fieldwork that went on behind that and the combination of the science and technology that goes to make that work more effectively and anything we can do to encourage on anything all of you can do can encourage that I think will make a significant difference to the US and

Food Security in an...

 background had a great colony of gannets which our guide said we could easily reach with an inflatable dinghy we decided to postpone that idea you know with fieldwork you always have to improvise and sometimes you end up with really interesting meant to you

Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...

 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years, and most other sedentary traditional societies around the world. In those societies, older people are cared for. They are fed. They remain valuable. And they continue to live in the same hut

Jared Diamond: How...

 I said, "Yeah, but I was looking at a computer screen." So when you think about this type of fieldwork, don't think about images like this. Think about images like this. This is a radargram, which is a vertical profile through the ice sheet,

How we look kilometers...

 of Black artistry and creativity. Here, her work garnered enough support to fund research trips through the South, where she collected stories and folktales from Black Americans. By 1937, her fieldwork had taken her all the way to Haiti,

Can love and independence...

 farming societies where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years and many other sedentary traditional societies around the world in those societies all the people are generally cared for the affair they remain

Jared Diamond: Lessons...

 something very tangible about these alien worlds and that makes them very special to me I am resurrecting this particular ecosystem through my fieldwork in the Sahara scouring the

Inside the new Old World...

 I've done archaeological fieldwork all over the world, so I thought I knew what to expect venturing into the jungle, but I was wrong. For the first time in my life, I might add.

Let's scan the whole...

 hypothesis was that we were already hearing xqc tikal and we said know it but and we captured all the sounds we could in our fieldwork and line them up