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The service learning projects I participated in were the Earth Month at the Watauga Library, the movie about climate change, the Archie Carnival, and I volunteered at family fun day at the elementary school my sister teaches at in High Point.  When we were at the Watauga Library we made a poster for Earth Month which included facts on some professors in the geology department.  It also had facts on multiple national parks around us. When I volunteered at family fun day at the elementary school my sister teaches at we helped run multiple stations for the students of her school.  My favorite station that we worked at was the petting zoo. Things I would like to participate in the future are service opportunities with animals such as volunteering at the human society or the SPCA. Scientists and science enthusiasts can help their community understand the nature of science in many ways.  Some of the ideas I have are things such as summer camps or after sc...

Science is a key aspect in about everything we do today.    It is so important for everyone to understand science in today’s world because our world revolves around it.    One of these key things is electricity.    Without electricity people in today’s world would be lost.    This allows us to use things such as phones, TVs, refrigerators, and cars.    Without having these things most people in our world would be lost.               Science can be taught and explained in many ways.    Some of these ways are things such as museums, games, YouTube videos, and national parks.    It is good that it can be explained in such a variety of ways because it allows the information to be put into better terms for the people there or watching it.    For example, museums help you understand history and can be very factual which can come off interesting to s...

Me and Ryan Nelson interviewed Dr. Sarah G. Evans last week about her research paper titled, "Contrasting hydrogeologic responses to warming in permafrost and seasonally frozen ground hillslopes".  We asked her many questions about this paper but started off with the basics such as, how long did it take you to do your  research and publish the article?  Her response to this was it took her about four years.  We also asked her what impact does she think her research will have on other scientists in her field.  Her response was that s he hopes they will read it and apply it to their specific type of frozen ground where they are doing their research. Hopes that more research will be done in the arctic regions. In her research  she noted that the thawing pattern in frozen ground will increase groundwater discharge. So we asked her what kind of an impact do you think this will have on the surrounding environment? Her response was that the b iggest conce...

Figure 1:  U.S. coal production (million short tons) and employment (thousand workers) Figure 2:   U.S. coal consumption 2002-2017 (million short tons).  These are two graphs about the use of coal in the United States.  In the Figure 2 it shows the consumption of coal in the United States over multiple years.  I would say that this is the good graph because it shows how the consumption is decreasing and the graph is easy to understand.  In Figure 1 it shows the production and employment from the coal industry.  This is the false or bad graph because it claims that the production and employment is going up.  This doesn't make sense because the consumption of coal has been continuously going down. Source:  MSHA Part 50, MSHA Open Government Data

Throughout my life I have always enjoyed the subject of science.   In high school, I took many science classes and did very well in all of them.   My favorite science class I took throughout high school was AP Biology.   I had an awesome teacher who made the material easy to learn and also very interesting.   My whole life, I have always have thought about being a veterinarian and after taking this course I knew that’s what I wanted to do.   I love working with animals and sciences came very easy to me so I thought it would be a great fit.   Going into freshman year of college I was a biology major on the pre-veterinary track.   This all changed very soon.   I started to really think about what jobs I would want to do after college and the one thing that I did not want to do was to be stuck working in a lab.   After knowing how hard it is to get into veterinary school and that I would be stuck with a biology degree I deci...