This page is part of the LTER Field Safety Toolkit. The toolkit provides relevant training, documentation, reporting, and readings that help us address barriers and challenges in the field.
Field Safety Toolkit Reading List
Fieldwork has many unique safety challenges and identity and positionality affects the types and levels of risk an individual will face while participating in field work. We have curated some resources below to help us understand how different people experience fieldwork so we can better support everyone in our community.
General resources
- Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions
- Report of the Workshop to Promote Safety in Field Sciences from the Consortium of Ocean Leadership
- Field Team Leadership: Strategies for Successful Field Work
- Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Resources for Targets and their Allies
- A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology
- Report of the Workshop to Promote Safety in Field Sciences that was organized by CSU Desert Studies and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership on 24-26 March 2021
- In the Field from ADVANCE Geo Partnership
- Ten Steps to Protect BIPOC Scholars in the Field
- Towards Safe and Inclusive Field Teaching Experiences
- Navigating Gender at Sea in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences
- Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault
- *TRIGGER WARNING* How to ‘Take Care’
- Working in the Field: New Solutions for Old Problems
- Signaling Safety: Characterizing Fieldwork Experiences and Their Implications for Career Trajectories
- The Challenges of Fieldwork for LGBTQ+ Geoscientists
- “The show must go on!” Fieldwork, mental health and wellbeing in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Mental Health and Fieldwork
- Not just muddy and not always gleeful? Thinking about the physicality of fieldwork, mental health, and marginality
- Mental Health in the Field
- Safety and Belonging in the Field: A Checklist for Educators
- Playing It Safe: Recognizing and Managing Risk When Working With Students in the Field
- Toilet stops in the field: An educational primer and recommended best practices for field-based teaching
