Train fieldwork leaders for emergencies

Bhatia left behind her husband and two young children. While researching environmental change, I've had to traverse glaciers, scare off grizzly bears and take measurements from fast-flowing rivers. When I became a tenure-track professor in 2007 at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, and my fieldwork shifted to the Rocky Mountains, I completed training in all-terrain vehicle handling and avalanche rescue.