Welcome to the Home Page of
Fieldworklogistics.com. We have been providing a comprehensive fieldwork
logistics service in a variety of disciplines for almost a decade. Clients have
included the British Antarctic Survey, the
Botany and Palaeontology Departments of The Natural History Museum (London), the
Archaeology Department of Oxford Brookes University, The
Gibraltar Museum, the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Liverpool
University, Swan Hellenic
Cruises, The Boxgrove Hominid Project, and the Makapansgat
Hominid Survey in South Africa.
We have enjoyed working with such a diverse array of
clients over the years - film crews, universities, museums, charities,
scientific research establishments and individual researchers - because we
offer such a wide variety of services that we can tailor to individual needs.
Services range merely from written advice on sourcing fieldwork equipment in
the UK through to organising every last practical detail and piece of equipment
you would need for a particular expedition abroad (including advising on health
and safety issues) and accompanying you to set up a fieldwork site and assist
in managing the venture. We even offer post-fieldwork services such as scientific
illustration, sieving and sorting residues, identifying specimens, advising on
remedial and preventive conservation in regards to collected materials, and
assisting with producing reports to enable you to claim the relevant grants.
For examples of our services, or for details of staff and specialisms, please
choose from the following selection:
Briefly, other services we can provide that do not necessarily involve travel to fieldwork locations include:
- Sieving, sorting and identifying residues (stone artefacts, vertebrate and invertebrate remains)
from palaeontological and archaeological excavations, and producing written reports
on findings
- Advising on, and undertaking, remedial conservation of collected specimens (e.g. cleaning or
repairing excavated material)
- Advising on the preventive conservation of collected specimens (e.g. storage, handling, documentation)
- Advising on the display or exhibition of specimens
- Moulding and casting fragile archaeological and palaeontological material to produce replicas for
scientific study, exhibition or for sale (please visit modelspecimens.com
if this interests you)
- Advising film crews on health and safety and logistics whilst on fieldwork
- Producing scientific illustrations for publications - especially botanical, archaeological and
palaeontological illustrations
FIELDWORKLOGISTICS.COM is run by Nigel Larkin BA MSc, and Phil
Rye B(Eng) MSc. With our extensive contacts in the universities,
national museums and regional museums throughout the UK, and other contacts
abroad, we can quickly and easily locate qualified and experienced personnel
relevant to your needs. We are realistic about budget limitations and therefore
try our hardest to keep your costs low, by trying to obtain sponsorship and
negotiate the loan or donation of equipment for you, or negotiate reduced rates
of hire.
No job is too big, too small, too difficult or too strange to be considered.
Please do Email us with your comments, queries or sugestions:
enquiries@fieldworklogistics.com
Adventures in the Antarctic
- Advising on the preventive conservation of collected specimens (e.g. storage, handling, documentation)