I have been working from home since March. I can do everything I need to do from here on the computer, and we have a lot of video conferencing and such. Still, I feel rather isolated - common these days, I know.

I am on one of the instrument teams for the Solar Orbiter mission. That was launched (luckly!) in February right before all this started. The operations center did have to suspend operations and turn off the instruments for a week, though, after some of the people in the
operations facility came down with COVID-19.

Things are moving along fine now, though, with the science teams meeting on line instead of in-person. There is more about it here:
http://www.esa.int/Scienc...te_COVID-19_setbacks

Hello Darcey! Like Terry, I have also been working mostly from home since March. The COVID-19 pandemic started becoming very serious around the time of my university's spring break. Many of us planned on working from home for just a couple of weeks around spring break, but it ended up being several months.

Most of my work can be done on a computer, anywhere I have Internet access. However, working from home full time was still a big adjustment. There have been times when I haven't been very productive because I needed help from co-workers and it took multiple e-mails, phone calls, or Zooms to figure out what to do, when before I could just stop by someone's office and take care of it immediately. We had another big setback in Iowa this summer thanks to a derecho storm that knocked out power, internet, and phones. It was really difficult doing any research during that time. I also feel rather isolated right now because I have limited contact with my co-workers. I used to have lunch with some of my co-workers once a week, but now we just send text messages, e-mails, and occasionally do a Zoom. We also used to have regular research seminars in my department. Some of those have moved online, but there is less face-to-face interaction with people. A big research conference for the Van Allen Probes mission that was being planned at my university had to be cancelled. Other conferences in my field around the world had to be cancelled or moved online too.

However, there are some good things about working from home. Because conferences have moved online, I've been able to participate in some online seminars and meetings that I probably would not have been able to attend in person.