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Expeditions: Early Land Plants of Chile

Sail along the Cape Horn Archipelago with Field Museum botanist Laura Briscoe and her colleagues as they catalog the incredible diversity of some of the world's earliest land plants—liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. For Expeditions at The Field Museum, we asked Laura to document the team’s daily life and discoveries on this poorly explored chain of islands at the tip of Chile.

Credits:
Project Manager/Producer: Kimberly Singleton, Video Editor: Alexandra Samochina, Videographers: Laura Briscoe and Blanka Shaw, Field Team: John Engel, Bill Buck, Matt von Konrat, Laura Briscoe, Paddy Dalton, Ernesto Davis, Niels Klazenga, Juan Larraín, Blanka Shaw, John Spence, and the crew of the Don Jose Miguel.

Video Journal #7: Drying Specimens

Find out how scientists prepare and store so many specimens aboard ship as Laura demonstrates the team’s handy-dandy plant dryer. This is the seventh installment in a series of video journals by botanist Laura Briscoe documenting The Field Museum’s 2013 survey of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) along remote islands in Chile’s Cape Horn Archipelago.

You'll be surprised to discover the critical role these tiny plants play in establishing healthy soil, water, and air, and you'll learn how Field Museum scientists are working to conserve their rare and fragile habitat.

Be sure to check out Video Journal #8: “Fieldwork” at vimeo.com/84896695.

Want to learn more about Field Museum scientific expeditions around the world? Please visit expeditions.fieldmuseum.org/

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