As war rages, researchers across Ukraine are scrambling to protect, hide or evacuate irreplaceable specimens, collections, and data.
; the bat rescue and research facility is the largest of its kind in Eastern Europe. “I didn’t know if we would return home, or what would happen next,” he says. “But I understood the war had begun, and we needed to do something.”
As war rages, Vlaschenko and researchers across Ukraine are scrambling to protect, hide, or evacuate irreplaceable specimens, collections, and data. One group is uploading 3D scans of fossils to colleagues abroad, and a loosely organized international effort has sprung up to save digital data from Ukrainian scientific and cultural collections to servers outside the country.
In what Holst calls a “happy accident,” more than 1000 objects from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and regional museums had already been shipped to his museum for an exhibit,. “There are burial assemblages, hoard finds—they’re quite significant objects,” Holst says. “There’s still quite a lot to be explored and researched about their provenance and history.”
Over the past 2 years, he led a project to scan marine mammal fossils from collections across Ukraine, most between 40 million and 7 million years old. “We created a 3D archive of extinct and extant specimens, some unique,” he says. “Our archive is four terabytes of data—it’s quite a big collection.”
, or SUCHO. What started a few days after the invasion as a project to save digitized music collections quickly turned into an effort to preserve the online repositories of more than 1000 Ukrainian cultural and scientific institutions, including small local archaeology museums, major archives, and rare book collections.
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