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Featured Scientists
To increase awareness of biodiversity, The Field Museum is dedicating this school year as The Year of Biodiversity and Conservation.
From September 2003 through May 2004, you can learn about some of the most provocative and pressing scientific concerns of our times. Climate change, water conservation, genetic diversityeach month, we tackle a different topic as we investigate issues that involve us all.
As part of our Year of Biodiversity and Conservation, were highlighting the work of Field Museum scientists who document biodiversity and design conservation strategies that protect some of the worlds most threatened ecosystems. Take a look below at biographies below of the men and women researchers featured in our Year of Biodiversity and Conservation advertisements:

Introduction | Investigate Biodiversity | YBC | Meet the Scientist | Explore Global Diversity | Events and Programs | Take Action! | Teaching Biodiversity | Biodiversity Exhibition | Credits
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Recording and counting the variety of species is crucial because we cant monitor and protect what we dont know.
Rüdiger Bieler, Ph.D.
Head and Curator, Invertebrates
The Field Museum
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