field researcher
Data gatherer outdoors
A field researcher is someone who gathers data by going to where their subject exists rather than studying it remotely or in a laboratory.
Anthropologists live among the communities they study; biologists observe animals in natural habitats; market researchers interview consumers in stores.
The term emphasizes firsthand observation and direct engagement: She spent two years as a field researcher in rural Guatemala.
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- anthropologistHuman culture researcher
- ethnographerScholar of cultures
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
binoculars · expedition · survey · observation · terrain · specimens · jungle · remote · off the grid · tent · sleeping bag · GPS · transect · wildlife · interviews · indigenous · local guide · sampling
- naturalistsCharles Darwin, naturalist, botanist, Carl Linnaeus, David Attenborough
- researchersethnographer, anthropologist, sociologist, psychologist
- agricultural scientistsagronomist, plant breeder, horticulturist, agricultural engineer, pomologist
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
- zoo jobszookeeper, keeper, animal keeper, head keeper, zoo director
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