Description: The COVID pandemic has impacted our ability to do research and to engage students and the public in research projects. This panel brings together panelists from a diversity of perspectives to discuss impacts and opportunities created by the pandemic. Together, the speakers will offer insight into how the pandemic has impacted grant funding, including impacts on ongoing projects, but also opportunities created; how it has impacted researcher’s fieldwork plans, while also having enhanced collaboration; and, how it has impacted field stations, student involvement in research projects, and science outreach.