William O. Field was an early North American glacier researcher and key figure in the development of glaciology on that continent. His Alaskan field notebooks from the 1930s were typically flimsy student composition books, yet the pages of these cheap booklets contain a rich variety of inscriptions, from diary entries to sketches, transit station readings to descriptions of glacier termini, book lists to notes about Alaskan culture. In this talk I will explore these notebooks as windows onto the messiness of “the field,” especially the fuzziness of its geographical and temporal boundaries, and its visceral physicality (his notebooks contain a lot of dead bugs). They are, I will suggest, also revealing of the process by which Field carved out his career in glacier study and to a certain extent the way that glaciology emerged in North America during the decades surrounding the Second World War.

The collection consists of the original field notebooks and diaries of Mexican geologist María Fernanda Campa Uranga "la Chata" from the 1960s to the 2010s, which relate to her field trips throughout Mexico. Campa-Uranga was born in Mexico City on March 22nd, 1940, in the bosom of a militant and combative family.
She studied geological engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute and was the first woman in this school to obtain a graduate title. She also participated in founding the Mexican Petroleum Institute (1965), worked for several years in the exploration of deposits for the Petroleos Mexicanos Company (Pemex), and later obtained her doctorate in 1977. She teaching in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Taxco and the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM). In 1983 she and Peter Coney proposed a revolutionary concept: tectonostratigraphic terranes to explain the terrain configuration and tectonic evolution of Mexico. In this occasion, we will offer an aprochings and puts historical context at the geologist notebook collection of Campa-Uranga kept at the Historical Archive of the Institute of Geology of UNAM.

Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa (1930 - 2022) was a distinguished paleoichthyologist from Vilnius (Lithuania), renowned for her significant contributions in the field of vertebrate paleontology. In recognition of her exemplary work, she was awarded honorary membership by the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in 2002 (Oklahoma, USA). In 2003, the Presidium of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences awarded her the Academician Juozas Dalinkevičius Prize for her significant contribution to the study and generalization of the oldest Paleozoic vertebrates and the Silurian-Devonian stratigraphy of Lithuania. In 2020 she received the A. Giedraitis Geological Foundation Honorary Badge “Golden Geologist's Hammer”.
Karatajute-Talimaa firmly believed that theoretical knowledge without fieldwork holds limited value in paleontology. This philosophy is evidenced by her extensive collection of fossils, which includes thousands of macroscopic specimens featuring fossilized fish remains. Her fieldwork spans numerous geographical locations, including the Ukraine, the northern Urals, the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, southeastern Siberia (Tuva), Mongolia, as well as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
This paper presents her research initiatives and fieldwork in Spitsbergen (Svalbard), focusing on her fieldwork notebooks and their influence on her later works. Her meticulously maintained field notebooks serve as primary resources that have informed her influential publications. Among her many contributions, her Magnum Opus, titled "Silurian and Devonian Thelodonts of the USSR and Spitsbergen” (1972), "Thelodonti" (2007) (with Tiiu Marss and Susan Turner) stands as seminal works in the field. These publications have historically been a fundamental reference for the classification and bio-stratigraphic correlation of Devonian and Silurian strata, using Thelodonts as index taxa.

Arturo Issel (1842-1922) is one of the more interesting and still lesser-known figures from within the Italian sciences towards the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. He was professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Genoa from 1866-1891 and of geology until 1917 and was an active member of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei.
One of his many contributions to the development of the Earth sciences in the latter years of the 19th century concerned seismological and volcanological questions and he proposed his theory of Bradyseisms for slow oscillations of the ground in a volume in 1883. Renowned for his abilities in regard to his extensive fieldwork and cartography of Liguria he also studied the area of the Mediterranean basin in great detail. He followed international debates and was part of the Italian delegation at the International Geological Congresses where he contributed his own views on current theories.
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of Issel's work in documenting relative sea level change and coastline uplift/subsidence related to volcanism and give an analysis of his research method and practice, in his writings on his theory “Bradyseism” published in 1883.