Field research at scale is a complex endeavour where success requires a team effort. But those challenges come with the reward of working with amazing people all over the globe. Sometimes you even manage to capture the warmth and joy on those occasions it all comes together:
Fieldwork can be challenging, but there is nothing like the feeling you get after a really good deployment dive…
There are not that many female cave divers, and even fewer who speak Spanish. So sometimes I attract a crowd of people curious about what all these crazy gringos are doing in rubber suits. I think I convinced him that hydrologists were pretty cool.
You can never have too many toys!
Never rent your bungalow to a cave research scientist! These are before & after shots from one of our fieldwork trips…
My husband has volunteered on research expeditions many times over the years. Together we are developing an open-source underwater instrument system for environmental research (See: the Cave Pearl Project for details)
Somehow I keep ending up on archaeology projects with these guys. I think it’s because we all really “dig” holes in the ground đ
Nothing makes Maggie happier than a smelly rock covered with microbial slime, and yes, Mat always looks like a pirate.
