Field Work Resources
- CU has a dedicated website where you can find the latest campus information and guidance regarding the virus.
- The Mountain Research Station is the destination for many CU field classes. If that's your destination, their 2020 Field Safety Guidance/Covid 19 document is essential reading. Even if not, the considerations for the safe execution of field research it describes are extremely helpful. You can download a copy of the guidance here.
- Committee member Erin Tripp had to quickly retool her Spring 2020 field lichenology course to be delivered fully online. It was formerly a field-only course. We will all have to plan online contingencies; her site specifically attempts to bring a series of “Virtual Hikes” to her students, and we include it here as one idea on how to approach this daunting task.
- Another site that is loaded with ideas for how to design remote "field" activities, in this case specific to geology, is on the National Association of Geoscience Teachers website.
- The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte hosts researchers for months at a time. Here's a link to their COVID-19 operational plan.
- Here are the University of California at Berkeley field safety guidelines.
- And the University of California at Davis guidelines (a quick Google search will get you to the guidelines of many other schools as well).