When scientist Danielle Lee travels to Tanzania to study pouched rats, she finds she's more of an outsider than she'd expected.
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Biologist Heather Hamlin leaves the safety of the lab for her first field assignment: tagging alligators.
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With only two days to find and extract a sample from one of the oldest coral colonies in the world, Konrad Hughen finds himself at the bottom of the ocean with a broken drill bit.
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When The Colbert Report calls about her research, marine biologist Skylar Bayer finds an unexpected collaborator and friend in the fisherman helping her get scallops.
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As an undergrad, Beryl Kahn takes a semester at sea after a bad breakup and gets rocked by the swells of the sea -- and her emotions.
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When herpetologist Joseph Mendelson gets his an opportunity to do fieldwork in Guatemala during his first year of graduate school, he struggles to connect with the locals.
Read MoreKim Cobb: The Gift of Mojo
Climate scientist Kim Cobb is exploring a cave in Borneo when rocks begin to fall.
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After cave geologist Gabriela Serrato Marks develops fibromyalgia, exploring caves becomes a challenge.
Read MoreDavid Evans: The Great Fossil Hunt
Paleontologist David Evans and his team start to feel defeated after three days of searching fruitlessly for fossils.
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Ecologist Cylita Guy finds unexpected adventure when she studies bats in the field.
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In China, ornithologist Sam Snow and his colleague gather as much data about a species of bird as possible -- but it comes at a cost.
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Marine biologist Liz Neeley is excited to be a part of a coral conservation project in Fiji, but her colleagues keep forgetting her.
Read MoreGifford Wong: A Half-Ton Fish-Eating Machine With Teeth
In Antarctica, scientist Gifford Wong attempts to save a seal that has gone into “dive mode.”
Read MoreMargot Wohl: Finding My Voice
As a young biology student, Margot Wohl is excited to spend a summer in the field, but her colleague expects her to do all the work.
Read MoreDawn Wright: A Good, Old-Fashioned Sea Story
As the only black woman on a two-month voyage, Dawn Wright tries to find her place aboard scientific drill vessel JOIDES Resolution.
Read MoreHeith Copes: Caught Being Stupid
Criminologist Heith Copes gets close to his subjects when he studies meth users in rural Alabama.
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As a grad student, Liz Neeley falls in love with the order of science, but when she heads into the field, she’s forced to confront messy reality.
Read MoreHerman Pontzer: Burning Calories
Anthropologist Herman Pontzer spends time living among a Hadza hunter-gatherer tribe in order to see if they burn more calories than a typical Westerner.
Read MorePatrick Freeman: Elephant Time
Patrick Freeman is studying elephants in Namibia when he receives terrible news.
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Skylar Bayer's dreams of a career in scientific scuba diving are put in jeopardy when her heart begins acting strangely.
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