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After considering the previous statement, I would like to add that in addition to the fascination I have with our natural world, I haven’t met a more fun-loving community of people outside of my peers here at UW. While we have all fretted about our exams, like everyone in college does, I can’t help but appreciate their support and guidance throughout my journey in school. Whether they know it or not, their help as a lab mate, study partner, or just socializing outside after class has brought me to realize that these are the same people I will work with everyday once I am done with school. With everything I have addressed I can confidently say that I know I want to be a geologist and that this was an impeccable choice. I am look- ing forward to my career in geoscience, lifelong learning, and sharing my curiosity of the natural world with those within my career field, and outside.


of nearly every branch of science, history, and exploring the great outdoors, all of which can be used to make sense of this messy world we call home. With each few steps, the Earth tells a different story and records millions of years. As a geologist, I get to piece together that history and I could not be more excited to do so!


Jessica Hiatt SA-10929


Colorado School of Mines Colorado Section


Jamie Good SA-10908


University of Florida Florida Section


I am from a small farming community, nestled in the middle of Florida’s springs heartland. Growing up, the health of our local water resources was - and still is - a consistent issue. My father worked as an environmental engineer for our water management district. Many of my weekends were spent with him on the Suwannee River, where he told me about the aqui- fer and springs and their most pressing issues. Given my childhood, I was inspired to go into the physical sciences, in the hopes of eventually helping communities such as my own. Although the work I end up doing may not be as specific to my hometown as I had once imagined, I know that my work will be applicable to the relation- ship between a people and their occupied environment, and I would like to play a part


in improving that relationship.


Once I graduated high school and began my secondary education at the University of Florida, I chose to major in geology on a whim. My father had told me of his geologist coworkers, who had many opportunities for field work and often reminisced on their times as an undergrad. I decided that for the time being I would explore geology. At that time, I didn’t understand the full scope of geology and thought it was “just about rocks,” as most people do.


However, upon taking my first geology class, I was hooked! I decided to go on an impromptu field trip which was led by some members of UF GeoClubs. That trip resulted in me falling in love with geology. I realized that geology is the intersection


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Being a geologist can mean a wide variety of things, which is why it has always interested me. Having become acquainted with many geology professionals while studying at [Colorado School of] Mines, this range has become more apparent to me and thus only strengthened my interest in integrating the liberal arts with science and engineering developments. The job versatility makes for an exciting and challenging career choice. I have found the field work in which I have participated has been incredibly fun and rewarding. I thoroughly enjoy developing an understanding of the processes that shaped the Earth. I hope to investigate how these processes, as well as geologic and geographic variables, influenced the develop- ment of past cultures and the preservation of their evidence. Looking at my past, it’s not surprising that my studies have led me to be where I am today. I always have been the kid who was picking up rocks and trying to figure out what kind of rock it is and how it came to be there. Who had touched it before, if anyone? I want to continue to be that person with that same sense of curiosity for the rest of my life, asking these and other questions.


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Specific factors that have interested me are the abundance and ease of access to materials and specific landscapes and how those factors influenced where, when and how civilizations developed.”


The integration of well-preserved geologic and historical records can provide more descriptive stories of past civiliza- tions, enabling a greater understanding of the world in which our ancestors lived. I also would like to investigate how the geology and geomorphology influence the probability of a suc- cessful excavation, as well as the nature of materials that may present themselves during such an excavation.


Looking at the geologic influence on the cultures themselves can provide a valuable context to understand the world of those inhabiting the landscape before us. Specific factors that have interested me are the abundance and ease of access to materi- als and specific landscapes and how those factors influenced where, when and how civilizations developed.


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