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COVID-19 kept many scientists from doing field research in 2020, which means that important records will have data gaps. But volunteers are helping to plug some of those holes.
Three scientists describe the fieldwork they’ve had to delay in 2020 because of the pandemic. These are setbacks not just for their careers, but for the body of scientific knowledge.
The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data sets and making it harder to track ecological change.
The fossa, Madagascar’s largest predator, is a cat-like carnivore that eats everything from insects to lemurs. Because they are rare and elusive, scientists know very little about them, including how many there are.
Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago Research Station has been a world-famous site for primate studies since 1938. Now scientists are working to save its staff and rhesus monkey colony after Hurricane Maria.
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
Surveying the bottom of the ocean turns out to be far from easy. But there was something wonderful about seeing animals we have only read about in old books.
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria
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Assistant Professor of Citizen and Data Science, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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PhD student in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Director, USA National Phenology Network, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Environment, Geography & Marine Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University
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Outreach Coordinator and Liaison to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, University of Arizona
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Director of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg
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