“Unlike a paused research grant, a degraded physical archive cannot be restarted. You can photograph a sample, but you cannot rerun its chemistry 40 years from now if the physical sample has degraded.”

Anthony Veltri, ” The Governance Gap Threatening Long-Term Ecological Archives”

EARTH SCIENCE ARCHIVE

An Off-Road Itinerary

This month, we cover the work of scientists stepping out of their labs and into the field, from rugged lava expanses and volcanic summits to arid ice sheets and lake beds.

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