Word: fieldwork
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Since last year, however, the ascetically inclined scientist has had to put away his muddy boots and pursue a very different kind of fieldwork in big-city hotels and on the lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
Although Sandburg speaks fluent Italian, knows a number of regional Venetian and Alpine dialects, and can read Latin, Spanish, French and German, he says that certain aspects of fieldwork--especially communicating with natives and gaining their trust--can be extremely difficult...
Sandburg is currently applying for fellowships to spend next year in Italy to complete fieldwork for his project on Roman culture in outlying areas...
...everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...
...that end, as well as for the furtherance of my complete education, I have been engaged in particularly rigorous fieldwork of late which has prevented me from engaging myself fully with the coursework in your class. I should like to interject that my particular digression into this field has been quite unexpected and certainly does not indicate that I am taking your course lightly...