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- We will talk about
careers, how about that?

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So, what in the world
did you have to study

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or what were you interested
in that really made

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you decide to do this kind of work?

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- Well, for me, I got involved in this

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by working with the Student
Conservation Association

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when I was in my undergraduate
which I think I have

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a fellow SCA member here
by the name of Chad.

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But, I got a job through
Student Conservation Association

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at Carlsbad Caverns National Park,

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which is Lena's favorite cave.

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And through that I became
interested in caves

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and interested in how they form

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and then through another job with

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the Forrest Service up in
the Tongass National Forrest,

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in southeast Alaska, I became interested

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in how our activities on the surface,

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our management activities, impact water

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in caves in the subsurface.

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And so I studied geology, and geography,

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cartography, mapping caves, and hydrology.

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Those sorts of things.

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- Interesting, similar story?

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Different story, Barb?

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- Pretty much, it may be different.

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I went to the University
of Tennessee at Martin

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as for my bachelors and
so at first I took all

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the geology, and biology,
and geography classes

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and that's what gave me
a very broad background

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in geology and biology to be able

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to marry those two programs
within paleontology.

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So, I've been a paleontologist,
fell in love with

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it the first quarter 'cause
geology just came easy

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to me and then when we
hit the third quarter

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of historical geology,
which had the fossils

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in it and all the animals and all...

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- Dinosaurs!

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- I was absolutely struck,
'cause I love animals too.

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So it married the best thing.

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Rocks and fossils.

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- So, like Barb, I studied
geology for my undergraduate,

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but it wasn't until I took
a class about geomorphology

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and caves that I fell in love.

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Our professor took us
caving and I knew I wanted

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to learn more about those caves.

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And so I started studying hydrology.

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So if you're interested
in caves, you also need

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to learn what happens with the water.

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If you're interested in
one science, you might want

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to combine them, so I
also did some hydrology

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and then eventually I
did paleo climate which

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is something you might not think about it,

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but we can get information
about what the climate was

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in the past studying the
caves and that's what I did.

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So, there are many things you can study.

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You can study biology,
you can study geology,

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geography, hydrology.

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So if you wanna be a scientist, and this

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is something that you like, there

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are many opportunities for you.

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- That's the cool thing about science,

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I mean, you can study anything. Right?

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Find out what you're
interested in and study it.