Expedition members should consult Instructions for Expedition Members , Packing List and Tourism to Central French Guiana for further information. Expedition members are responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Upon returning from the field in the late afternoon, specimens are placed in presses and dried on a field dryer. Participation in expeditions is limited to biologists with research interests in the lowland Neotropics. Professional biologists must have a record of publication and students must be enrolled in graduate school and be specializing in the fungi, plants, or animals of the lowland Neotropics.
Funds are available only for the participation of invited expedition members.