Field Research

Field Research is a side quest in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Quick walkthrough

 * 1) Find the Audio Sample - Opera Singer.
 * 2) Find the Audio Sample - Giant Tarantula.
 * 3) Find the Audio Sample - Gabriel's bark.
 * 4) Find the Audio Sample - Mobius' Robo-Scorpion
 * 5) Find the three seed packages for the Biological research station.
 * 6) Install all the upgrades in The Sink.

Detailed walkthrough
The first audio tape, Opera Singer, can be found in Higgs Village House # 108. It is resting upon the night stand in the master bedroom, upstairs.

The second audio tape, Giant Tarantula, can be found in Higgs Village House #00. It is in the upstairs room to the left and back, upon an empty terminal.

The third audio tape, Gabriel's bark, can be found at the Residential test facility located after you do all the sonic emitter quests, Gabe's Bark is located once the Residential Cyberdog Guard Test is activated. Select the test, kill Gabe and the tape is located in one of Gabe's dig spots. The exact dig spot is randomly selected.

The fourth and final audio tape, Robo-scorpion, can be found in the Forbidden Zone Dome entrance. It is found when you destroy Mobius' robo-scorpion, on a table at the far end of the room.

The first pack of Dried Seeds can be found at the X-22 botanical garden. It is on the second level of the of the building, guarded by a few Spore carriers, Spore plants, and Patient Zero, a unique Spore carrier.

The second pack of Dried Seeds sits on a fountain northeast of Signal hills transmitter and is guarded  by a few Spore plants along with a unique spore plant, Dionaea Muscipula.

The third and final pack of Dried Seeds are found north of the second pack at Signal hills transmitter, across the pipe and near a spore plant.

All that is left is to return to The Sink and install the upgrades into the Biological research station and Blind Diode Jefferson.