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Graduate students Heidi Rantala and Stephanie Parker of the University of Alabama collect benthic samples from the Upper Kuparuk Spring, part of the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research (ARC LTER) site at Toolik Lake. Photo by Jon Benstead, University of Alabama.
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Travel, social and funding restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a toll on scientific research worldwide. Graduate students and early-career scientists have seen their plans for field research and projects thrown into uncertainty, while science conferences on issues from climate change to conservation have been postponed. Long-term research projects, some going back decades, face an unprecedented break in data gathering, and there’s widespread uncertainty about how long grants and other funding sources will be available.

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