In March 2016, a group of students from the USA, Israel, Namibia and South Africa met at the Gobabeb Desert Research and Training Centre, in the Namib Desert of Namibia for an intensive ten-day field research experience in desert ecology. They came to Gobabeb as part of a hybrid online/field course called Biophysical Field Methods, taught by Profs Scott Turner (SUNY ESF), Berry Pinshow (Ben-Gurion University) and Dr Eugene Marais, National Museum of Namibia. This is the story of that group. Produced by Tiffany Deater.