"We are still not prepared," says Tankeswar Bharali, a field assistant at the animal clinic in Machkhowa, which hasn't had its own veterinary doctor for six months.
While chimpanzees nested in trees at night, a field assistant below them caught urine in a plastic bag held between a forked twig.
A mere eleven hundred dollars was available for the employment of a field assistant in 1954, and no special funds were provided in 1955.
One woman, who worked on the environmental health studies as a field assistant and was part of ATFE, described how her family continued to eat fish, and her kids "love it.
Davidar, who is now 61, says that today's challenges are the same for all ecologists in India, regardless of gender: where to go, how to get there, where to stay, finding a field assistant, finding funds, and so on.
Nevertheless, "In Spain, it is common practice for researchers to work alone in the field," says Pedro Rey, a plant ecologist from the University of Jaén, "because we do not usually get public funds for a field assistant".
Interviews were conducted individually with the assistance of a trained field assistant.
We have a Field Office in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, with a local Field Assistant permanently based there.
Mr. Ball first worked as a Social Security field assistant in New Jersey in 1939.
Tree species identification was conducted by a local field assistant with knowledge of the tree flora.
All interviews were conducted in Spanish (occasionally alongside a Salvadoran field assistant) and digitally recorded.
