John Terrell-Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, studies the prehistory, social organization, and biogeography of peoples in the Pacific Islands. Along with Robert L. Welsch, Adjunct Associate Curator of Anthropology, he has recruited an impressive number of research colleagues to expand Field Museum's New Guinea Research Program to include scientists from other research departments around the world. This program studies the biological diversity, population structure and prehistory on the Sepik coast of New Guinea, first identified as a major research problem through the analysis of our extensive Oceania collections. The research focused on the nature and processes of regional integration along one of the world's most linguistically diverse areas. In conjunction with this research, Terrell and Welsch have collected over1,000 ethnographic objects for the Museum in the past two years, to be incorporated into our extensive Oceania collections. Research Site: • Pacific Web Other Anthropology Department Research: Africa | Asia | Archaeological Science | Caribbean |Cultural Understanding | Mesoamerica | North America | South America | Oceania