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Ph.D. Student
Department of Earth Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630
eaerickson@ucsb.edu
Thank you for joining me in my day of science! As a reminder, there is still time to join me in championing this cause to help support future generations of scientists by donating at my campaign page: https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/science-a-thon-2018/elizabetherickson11/ Help EWSN (https://eswnonline.org) and this STEM-wise initiative to empower scientists, promote scientists as role models, and build … More A day in my life as a scientist.
Just like a regular human, I too have errands. Today I am buying lab supplies, grocery shopping, laundering clothes, and taking Murphy on another run. I like making one weeknight each week my errand time rather than letting things build up on weekends. That gives me more time on weekends to do fun activities like … More 6PM – Science-A-Thon
I think there is often a challenge of fully relaying the importance of studying Earth processes to the public. But in Antarctica, studying the geology is truly exciting. Antarctica is roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, but less than 1% of its rocks are exposed above the ice sheets, mainly along the … More 5PM – Science-A-Thon
Elizabeth Erickson 