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During the pandemic, students do field and lab work without leaving home

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Elizabeth PennisiScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.In a normal summer, Appledore Island, a 39-hectare outcrop 12 kilometers off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, becomes a classroom.

Students from high school to graduate level live in close quarters, eat in a communal dining hall, and work shoulder to shoulder to explore the biology of the shore and waters in 18 courses organized by the Shoals Marine Laboratory.

But this summer, with the pandemic surging, students have stayed home.Instead, a skeleton staff on Appledore is streaming field trips and dissections of fish and invertebrates and setting up cameras to gather data for students.

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