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- Alright, it's time

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and unless you've been
living under a rock somewhere

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for the past few months.

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You know what time I'm talking about.

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It's time for CavesLIVE.

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Hey everybody, my name is Amtchat Edwards,

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and I'm the Educational Specialist

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with the United States Forest Service.

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My job is to make sure
that we're learning things,

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and having fun in the process.

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So, fingers crossed,
it all goes well today.

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Alright,

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We are in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia,

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in a place called Luray Caverns.

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This is actually one
of the largest caverns,

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the largest cave...

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(crowd whispers)

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...systems, (laughs)
the largest cave systems

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in the Eastern United Sates.

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And if you look around,

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these chambers actually began dissolving

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over 400 million years ago.

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So, this wasn't made overnight.

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And if you look,

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you'll notice that most of
these structures around here are

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reddish and orange, brownish color,

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that's coming from iron
present in the soil above.

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And it trickles, as the water
and raindrops trickle down,

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they bring it through
here and have painted

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and decorated these walls this
fabulous, beautiful color.

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We didn't stage this for
you, this is natural.

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400 million years in the
making. How about it?

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Alright, one of the things that you'll see

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a little bit later is actually manmade.

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There's a musical instrument, an organ,

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that will play a little bit later,

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so stay tuned for that.

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Caves have all sorts of interesting things

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that you'll find in them,

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the more that you get out and see,

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you'll notice that they're
beautiful, natural formations

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and there are caves
all across the country,

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so I'm encouraging you to come visit.

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After you see this program,

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you're gonna wanna go even more.

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But right now, I'm even
saying, "Come visit."

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And speaking of visitors,

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I have a bunch of friends here
from Rippon Middle School.

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Hey.

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(crowd cheers and applauds)

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Welcome. I'm so glad you all could come.

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They will actually be asking questions

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of our fabulous Scientists,

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which we just happen to
have three right here.

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Let me introduce.

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We've got Dr. Joanna Kovarik.

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She's the National Cave
and Karst Program Lead

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for the USDA Forest Service.

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We have Barb Beasley.

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A Paleontologist with
the USDA Forest Service,

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and we have Limaris Soto,

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- Hola.

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- Or Lima.

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- She's a Geologist with
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Now, these are a few of our Scientists,

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we have a bunch more that
are not gonna be on screen.

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They are equally as important

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and equally as awesome.

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Right?

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I'm going to introduce them
because they're gonna be

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answering your questions

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and putting them into the online forums.

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So, they're not here
with us, but they are.

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We've got Gretchen Baker,

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She's an Ecologist with
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and one of our stars from
the original CavesLIVE.

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We have Dr. Hazel Barton,

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Professor at the University of Akron.

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She's also a star of the IMAX movie,

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'Journey into Amazing Caves'.

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We have Fernando Hernandez,

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a graduate student in Hydrogeology

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at Western Kentucky University,

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also one of our stars from
the original CavesLIVE.

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We have Ben Miller,

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a Karst Hydrologist with
the U.S Geological Survey.

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We have Shona Pierce,

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and Archeologist with the Forest Service,

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Lizandra Nieves-Rivera,

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she's a Forest Soil Scientist
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So many different types of Science right?

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(chuckling)

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We have.. that's why I'm using notes.

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(chuckling)

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Okay, Dr. Ben Tobin is a Hydrologist

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with the National Park Service.

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Dr. Steve Taylor is a Research Associate

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with the Denver Museum
of Nature and Science,

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one of our awesome partners as well.

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An associate Research
Professor at Colorado College.

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Dr. Sybill Amelon,

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is a Research Wildlife Biologist
with the Forest Service.

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And Dr. Risa Carlson,

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Archeologist with the Forest Service.

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I haven't actually done the math,

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but I think that's a ton of Scientists.

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(chuckling)

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Maybe, okay.

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So, you're probably trying to figure out

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how can you submit questions.

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Well if you're on the CavesLIVE website,

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you can immediately post those there.

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Also if you're in... on
the Facebook environment,

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you can post your questions directly

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on our page there as well.

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Or emailing to FieldTrips@pwnet.org.

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And all those three channels
will funnel to us here,

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we'll answer them as best we can.