field researchers
On-site study specialists
Field researchers are people who gather data by going to where their subjects actually live, work, or occur—as opposed to studying them in laboratories or through archives.
The term spans disciplines: anthropologists living among communities, biologists tracking animals in habitats, sociologists conducting interviews in neighborhoods.
The field researchers spent three months documenting farming practices in rural Guatemala.
- surveyorOne who measures land
- ethnographersScholars documenting human cultures
- agronomistAgricultural soil specialist
- digUnearth by shoveling
- anthropologistHuman culture researcher
archaeologist · naturalists · botanist · sociologist · transect · map · GPS coordinates · remote locations · ecologist · quadrat · conservationist · ornithologist · sample · net · notebook · observe · peer review · environmental engineer
- AnthropologistsMargaret Mead, anthropologists, ethnographers, ethnologists, paleoanthropologists
- naturalistsCharles Darwin, naturalist, botanist, Carl Linnaeus, David Attenborough
- shell collectors
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- archaeologistsHoward Carter, Mary Leakey