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Physics in the pandemic: ‘my winter solstice in Latvia will be a time of reflection’

15 Dec 2020

Amara Graps is a planetary scientist and space entrepreneur in Riga, Latvia. This post is part of a series on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the personal and professional lives of physicists around the world. If you’d like to share your own perspective, please contact us at pwld@ioppublishing.org.

A child sits at a table with a paper in front of her and a desk piled high with papers and books in the background
Safe, but separate The author’s daughter taking an exam at home during distance learning. (Courtesy: Amara Graps)
Since 10 March 2020, when Latvia went into lockdown, my 11-year-old daughter Vija has attended only

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Amara Graps is a planetary scientist and space entrepreneur in Riga, Latvia, and the executive director of Baltics In Space, a social enterprise that integrates skillsets in the space sciences across the Baltic nations
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