Oxytropidoceras Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 With laboratories shut, coronavirus forces scientists to ‘stop cold’ Los Angeles Times by Joel Rubin and Amina Khan, April 29, 2020 https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-29/coronavirus-forces-science-to-stop-cold This article talks mainly about medical and biological research, but the pandemic also has shut down geological, including some of mine, research cold. Will lose an entire field season. The crash in the price of oil also will disrupt and end geological and paleontological research. This is a major event in science. Fortunately, I am able to get Global Mapper and ArcGIS to work on my home computer so I have something to work on along with finishing a couple of planned papers. Yours, Paul H. "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I feel your pain. I also am barred from my lab. My grad students have been sent home. I have them working on their literature reviews and a few other writing projects, but time is passing and no actual research is getting done. It's very frustrating. I thought about bringing some equipment home and setting up a lab in the basement but I was told "no" in no uncertain terms. In the meantime I know that a competing lab in Brazil is running at full speed. Still, there is nothing I can do about it. So I stay home and try to work on grant proposals that are missing key pieces of preliminary data, so I know they will be almost impossible to get funded. Don 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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