Many scientists are facing losses across Puerto Rico’s hundreds of scientific laboratories and research sites in the wake of HurricaneFiona.
Three days after Hurricane Fiona tore its way through Puerto Rico, Ileana Rodríguez-Velez arrived at her laboratory, which had lost power, not knowing what to expect. A chemist at the University of Puerto Rico , Humacao, Rodríguez-Velez opened a refrigerator that stores the samples of rare plants her lab studies for their potential medical uses.
Pérez-Reyes and other researchers don’t yet know the full extent of their losses because access to the field station and other research sites is still limited thanks to landslides and rubble that hasn’t been cleared. It’s a familiar situation. Five years ago, researchers encountered similar problems after Hurricane María devastated the island. Many invested in generators to safeguard against future power losses.
Other researchers are simply working in the dark. At UPR, scientists who use a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for their work have had to use flashlights as they pour the liquid nitrogen needed to maintain the instrument. They are also manually hauling cylinders of nitrogen up and down stairs because elevators aren’t working.
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