Disruption from the pandemic forced graduate students to find innovative workarounds — and some changes might stick.
Geologist Anna Sivils discusses a sediment core at the Oregon State University Marine and Geology Repository with her adviser, Philip Bart .Anna Sivils couldn’t wait for the voyage to Antarctica. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the geologist and master’s student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge was set to collect data from the waters off Antarctica from January to March 2021. Or so she thought.
Leaders in the field discussed the challenges facing trainees at an advisory committee meeting of the US National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs last month. They concluded that the community should ‘bend’ its definition of polar research to keep students on track, but that it should also embrace the opportunity to re-evaluate how students are trained.
To negate the pandemic’s effects, respondents called for extra funding to support their work, as well as the sharing of electronic data and physical samples collected by others.Such pre-existing ‘legacy’ data enabled Sivils to continue her research.
Simulations of polar conditions have also helped some student researchers to continue their work. Bomi Kim, an ice chemist and doctoral student at the Korea Polar Research Institute in Incheon, has been studying how climate change affects the microstructure of polar ice — but her experiments have taken place in the laboratory rather than in Antarctica. She has been able to replicate several of Antarctica’s environmental factors, including sunlight patterns, in a temperature-controlled space.
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