Riding shutdowns in developing world

• Published in: Nature
• Main Author: De Bruyn, P.J. Nico
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
• Subjects: Riding; Shutdowns; Developing world; Endurance; Physical; Scientists; Antarctica; Scientific expeditions > Antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Hofmann; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33200; https://doi.org/10.1038/503198e

The recent US government shutdown hit researchers in the Antarctic particularly hard (G. E. Hofmann Nature 502, 431–432; 2013). But spare a thought for the feats of endurance shown by scientists from the developing world, who continue working in such harsh environments while contending with chronica...