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Mar. 8, 2022 - My ancestors were scientists
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Rosa Hunter wants aspiring young scientists to know it’s never too late.
Rosa Hunter, lab manager at the Salish Sea Research Center, wants aspiring young scientists to know it’s never too late. Hunter dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and worked many jobs before jumping head first into college at age 32. Her studies led to her work in the sea, where she realized that her grandmother’s guidance clamming as a child could inform her work.
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Mar. 8, 2022 - My ancestors were scientists
3/8/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Rosa Hunter, lab manager at the Salish Sea Research Center, wants aspiring young scientists to know it’s never too late. Hunter dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and worked many jobs before jumping head first into college at age 32. Her studies led to her work in the sea, where she realized that her grandmother’s guidance clamming as a child could inform her work.
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(bright music) Rosa Hunter is a Lab Manager at the Salish Sea Research Center and she's inspiring indigenous students to pursue science and know that it's never too late.
Hunter dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and worked every job, from digging ditches to housekeeping, before heading to college at age 32.
It was there that she found her love for ancient organisms like tardigrades.
Lessons learned from clamming with her grandmother as a child now inform her work identifying toxic shellfish in the ocean.
The world of science is full of facts and figures, but behind the study are the people.
In the end, it becomes a question not of how they do science, but why.
Studying everything from wildlife to video games, learn more about Washington's most fascinating scientists in season two of Human Elements.
I'm Starla Sampaco.
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