The Future of Field Work
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19106
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In 2005 the American Philosophical Society launched the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research. The brainchild of APS President Baruch Blumberg, the fund was created to support exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Since its inception, the program has been doggedly interdisciplinary and has supported over 900 projects on all seven continents in a wide-range of fields, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, among others.
To mark the 20th anniversary of this program, the American Philosophical Society will hold an international symposium that explores the current state of field work and its possible future directions.
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