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Tanked:
Courtney Turich gets ready to scuba dive.
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Digging in the Lake-bottom Mud
Somewhere
in the recesses of her mind, geosciences graduate student
Courtney Turich may have always wanted to be a research
scientist, but you wouldn't know it from her undergraduate
studies. She got her Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts.
Life
has its interesting turns, and Courtney got interested
in the history of the earth's climate and all the plants
and animals that have flourished in eastern North America
since the last Ice Age. And that is what got her diving
to the bottom of a lake near Troy, PA to extract samples
of the mud that has been building up there for the last
several thousand years.
Courtney
Turich, M.S., is a Geoscience Ph.D. candidate in the
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State.
Lee Kump is a professor in the Department of Geosciencesin
the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State.
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