title: The rewards of roughing it.
authors.affiliation: Xin Lu is a professor of zoology at Wuhan University in China and the co-director of the Wuhan University-Tibet University Field Research Station for Tibetan Wildlife. He is vice president of the China Ornithological Society. He would like to thank Ronna Edelstein, Lugene Calderone, and Marinne Renton for comments. For more on life and careers, visit sciencecareers.org. Send your story to SciCareerEditor@aaas.org.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D012201:Reward; D029181:Spirituality; D018609:Tibet; D015046:Zoology