Field Research
Langenheim with expedition team on UC Berkeley amber research expedition in Chiapas, Mexico, 1962. "This expedition changed the direction of research for the rest of my career" (Odyssey, 152).
Langenheim's performed varied research activities in plant ecology, paleobotany, and ethnobotany, with a focus on amber and other plant resins. In addition to publishing over 130 scientific papers and several books, including the definitive reference work, Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology and Ethnobotany, she conducted ecological field expeditions in western regions of the United States, southern Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Angola, Ghana, and parts of the Amazon rainforest. Langenheim was awarded research grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Chemical Society, and several other granting agencies over the course of her career.
This section highlights some of Langenheim's field research activities. To learn more, see parts II-III in The Odyssey of a Woman Field Scientist.
A page from Langenheim's Ecology field notebook used while at the University of Tulsa, 1945-1946.
Langenheim unloading supplies at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado circa 1946.
Langenheim on research expedition in Colombia, 1953.
Corral Hallow Field trip with the UC Berkeley Botany department, 1954.
Langenheim in the Kenai Peninsula on field trip to Alaska, 1956.
Langenheim's field notebook, University of Illinois Bliss ecology class, 1960-1962.
Langenheim in the Barghoorn Lab at Harvard Universtiy, 1962.
Langenheim on a research trip on Mount Washington while at Harvard University, 1964.
Langenheim on a resin collecting field trip in Angola, Africa, 1968.
Langenheim on a research trip at the Queensland Nature Sanctuary for Koalas in Australia, 1981.