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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

President Obama arrived in Cuba, March 20th, the first visit by a U.S. leader since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

Last spring, I spoke to Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology researcher Eduardo Enigo Elias about what improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba could mean for science.

For the last 12 years, the lab of ornithology had been involved in a research and conservation and training,

building local capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba. So you can imagine the amount of work that we have on the back

from our lawyers from Cornell University to get the permits to work through the Treasury Department

and the State Department here in the U.S. But also it has been a lot of paperwork to do, you know,

the things that we want to do, collaborated with Cuban scientists.

And our Cuban scientists have to deal also with their restrictions that they have.

I noticed there's a book on your desk called The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy,

which gives you an idea of the kind of things we've been talking about.

Exactly.

You have to do this kind of thing where

you're not just a research scientist, you're also a diplomat.

You need to be, you know, there are many challenges, especially you learn this with migratory

birds, that there is a natural resource shared by everybody and there are many issues

that affect, you know, when the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico happened, you know, everybody was calling here and ringing, oh, Edward, where are the people that you know in Cuba that can help us to understand, you know, if the water changed in that direction and the oil starts going to the shore, what are going to be the impacts, especially now that the migratory birds are moving.

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