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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: i'll how about I wonder if we should just go ahead and get going.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And I have a feeling that with cj working with Jim we should have this resolved in no time, so why don't we go ahead and get started, and that way.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: We can keep working on resolving everything in the background, so, first of all, I just want to welcome everyone to the john man mentors and applied hydro geology Program.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And, as I said, we're still just.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: resolving a couple of technical issues, but I think we will be there and no time.

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13345468004: So, Robert can you hear me, yes, I can.

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13345468004: yay i'm so glad it worked out, thank you.

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13345468004: Thank you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Alright, so Oh, and the other thing Jim you might turn off your sound on your computer screen otherwise you'll get a feedback when you have both your phone and the computer screen not muted.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: So, once again, let me just welcome us to the john man mentors program and I do want to mention that this is a GSA events, and we are using our rise code of conduct so we're i'm asking you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: To be respectful inclusive.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And to act.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And with that i'd like to turn it over to vicki mcconnell, which is our GSA executive director for a couple of quick introductions.

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Vicki McConnell: hi everyone on.

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Vicki McConnell: It.

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Vicki McConnell: In so my.

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Vicki McConnell: My first part of this is just.

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Vicki McConnell: To.

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Vicki McConnell: say a bunch of thank yous I want to thank Jennifer know serena for be.

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Vicki McConnell: Being the program manager for.

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Vicki McConnell: The for these mentor meetings and lunches and everything she.

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Vicki McConnell: Does a really great job, and so I sometimes neglect to give a shout out to you Jennifer.

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Vicki McConnell: But thank you and she is a big part of this because she finds all of these.

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Vicki McConnell: For you, the students to have an opportunity to.

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Vicki McConnell: that's my second Thank you is to thank all the mentors for taking some time out of their meeting and out of the day.

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Vicki McConnell: To do.

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Vicki McConnell: To meet with.

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Vicki McConnell: Students that are interested in on GEO hydrology and applied.

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Vicki McConnell: geology activities and careers it's it's a it's a great direction it's it's the direction I went in my career so not the duck the geo not the hydro part, but the applied part I think it's really, really keen and really important.

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Vicki McConnell: On and then the last part that i'll just mention is, these are the kind of programs it in and debbie Martin calcio bring this up a little bit too, but these are the kinds of programs that professional societies do for their their members it's really important.

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Vicki McConnell: We see our mission as both.

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Vicki McConnell: The science of geoscience in a way that it that it's useful and again can be both.

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Vicki McConnell: Research and employment, but we also see the real importance of building careers through the through your whole career she started as a student.

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Vicki McConnell: and work your way up through a you're going to have a lot of decision points and there's going to be a lot of times when being in a professional society.

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Vicki McConnell: gives you.

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Vicki McConnell: Networking capability ability to publish it gives you all kinds of ways that you can work with with developing your career, so please take advantage of that.

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Vicki McConnell: i'd love to see you stay as GSA members that's really super some of you may go off and other very specific directions and you find another professional society, so you can join them too, but stick with GSA is what else.

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Vicki McConnell: So just thanks everyone I don't want to take up any more your time because we're running a little late already do take advantage students of talking with these mentors asking the hard questions that's what they're here for Thank you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thanks so much vicki I appreciate it and debbie What would you like, let me introduce you i'm sorry.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: This is debbie marston cascade she's with GSA foundation which takes care of the funds for all of these programs.

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Debora Marcinkowski: hi everyone nice to see all of you so on behalf of the Foundation, I just want to welcome all of you, and let you know that we are the arm that helps fund programs like this and others for students, if we were in person, I would invite you to come to our GSA foundation.

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Debora Marcinkowski: booth because we are a.

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Debora Marcinkowski: lot of information about other programs for students, like our graduate student research grants on to the future.

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Debora Marcinkowski: Some expanding representation in the geoscience scholarship so lots of things to tell you about, and if you have any questions about other student programs, you can always ask Jennifer or.

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Debora Marcinkowski: My way but Jennifer would be your first to go to there so programs like this are funded by really generous donors to the GSA foundation and Dr john man was a longtime Member.

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Debora Marcinkowski: Obviously, a hydrogeologist himself in the applied sector and Members like him have been really committed to encouraging students to pursue careers in the geosciences and so see fit to contribute significantly for programs like this to go on in perpetuity.

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Debora Marcinkowski: So that's how these programs.

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Debora Marcinkowski: are funded and able to happen for people like Jennifer to carry them out, and so just a reminder to, of course, hopefully you'll maintain your membership with us, and there are a lot of ways that you might also think about contributing yourself.

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Debora Marcinkowski: Whether it's coming back as a mentor.

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Debora Marcinkowski: Maybe he donating a bit, we have a great student donor group believe it or not, we have almost 1200 GSA student Members who donate it's a group called tectonics.

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Debora Marcinkowski: building the future.

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Debora Marcinkowski: We have a fun little gift for any student donors and it requires a very small contribution to be a part of that So hopefully we'll see you all again thanks guys.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thanks so much debbie I appreciate that.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Alright, so i'd like to now move on to our mentors and Edwin Andrews is not with us today, but Randy kath actually hopped in, and so I think I will ask him to introduce himself as well, so Jim would you like to start.

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13345468004: Welcome to my very messy Office, my name is TIM Keller i'm amanda geosciences staff in the groundwater branch of the Alabama department of environmental management and i'm happy to say, I recently completed my 25th and them here never thought I would be here this one.

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13345468004: fun fact and i'll digress briefly, I never thought I would ever ever.

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13345468004: Do hydrogeologist, in fact, if you had asked me at the start of my career, would I consider hydrogeologist a vocation, I would have said no Absolutely not.

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13345468004: And that being kept being said, you know I just I had a terrible experience as an undergraduate by taking a hydro geology course and they just totally turn me off on the subject, you know my passion is really.

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13345468004: I graduated into a recession and I didn't have a lot of flexibility, and in my career choices, so I ended up at the Alabama department of environmental management, they were the only.

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13345468004: place that was really hiring and I was living in the southeast, and so I packed up my suitcase and moved to Montgomery.

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13345468004: A little bit about my education, I did my undergraduate at rockers college records university and then I worked a little bit in industry and then I ended up pursuing a master's degree at the University of Tennessee and uh and then the rest is history 25 years later, here I am.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thank you very much, Jim I appreciate that and Eric Johnson, would you like to introduce yourself.

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Eric Johnson: well.

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Eric Johnson: My name is Eric Johnson, I have a slightly somewhat important title, although.

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Eric Johnson: I do a director geology for company called ws P USA, where a consulting and engineering company with offices in the US and overseas.

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Eric Johnson: Is sounds very similar to gyms and that I went to graduate school at rutgers college in new brunswick and graduated there and then.

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Eric Johnson: I went to graduate school right after that the University of Tennessee knoxville.

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Eric Johnson: Give the date but it's a little while ago and.

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Eric Johnson: When I like maybe Jim was experiencing when I was completing my graduate education, the job market somewhat was.

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Eric Johnson: And when I was finishing up I had an opportunity with my advisor.

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Eric Johnson: To be able to do a little bit of what you might call from.

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Eric Johnson: work which pretty much just involved geologic.

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Eric Johnson: And some errors in East Tennessee.

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Eric Johnson: With a small kind of company that did a mix of environmental consulting and some other engineering work up in the Washington DC area and from there went to work shortly after joining that company, about a year later, with a bigger company.

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Eric Johnson: Doing geologic geological work both in the eastern us pretty much all over, and so I moved to that company and that's kind of who i've stayed with for the last.

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Eric Johnson: 30 plus years and just kind of worked my way up the quote unquote ladder, so to speak up in the environmental consulting our company's been under various different names.

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Eric Johnson: For the company, since I joined up and very my I guess career, I just started out doing technical work, a lot of field or.

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Eric Johnson: sample collection of data evaluation and analysis and as we started to work my way up and through the company started to get more into that's a task management involved in.

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Eric Johnson: Planning scoping executing completing and then eventually what I do now is more kind of have like a project management that's a role with also providing some technical support for other projects and other things going on with the company so.

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Eric Johnson: that's pretty much my.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Wonderful thanks so much Eric I appreciate that and Randy CAP is with us and Randy would you like to introduce yourself.

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Randy Kath: Sure i'll give you a brief introduction Randy cat a professor in geology of the University of West Georgia.

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Randy Kath: Prior to teaching at the university I worked in gold exploration for about eight and a half years, and the Western United States since coming to the university I have now been there, as my 26 year it's hard to believe.

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Randy Kath: And I also am the academic coordinator for as Bob and for many of the students you'll understand licensure many of our States require licensure.

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Randy Kath: And i've been working with as bug since 2007 also sit on the Georgia board for professional genealogists if you come to Georgia and get licensed i'll probably be reviewing your license application.

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Randy Kath: So if you have any questions about licensure and certification in different states, be happy to answer any of those questions for you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thanks so much Randy I appreciate that, so our program is run entirely by student questions, we do have a few students in here we've done some introductions So if you have questions go ahead and type those in.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: I would like to spend just a moment talking about certification so i'm going to put Randy and Jim on the spot very quickly.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Students are not familiar with certification to.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: become a professional genealogist and for the students who are with us, will you type into the chat box, if you are familiar with certification or not just so that we know.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: But it is really important for you to become aware of, and I try to spend a little bit of time talking about it, and all of our mentor programs.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: So Randy do you mind saying a couple words about certification and why it's important and then perhaps Jim you could say a word or two after Randy.

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Randy Kath: Sure Jennifer can I share my screen is that.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Sure, let me see if I can i'll do a stop share on me.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Okay, then you should see a share screen green button at the.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: bottom, it should be a green button that says share screen.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: yeah awesome.

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Randy Kath: yeah so Jim and I have worked.

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Randy Kath: GSA tag team these before if you want to work in one of these green states these states have licensed your laws and it's in the Statute and if.

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Randy Kath: Of geology in any of these green states, you have to have a life.

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Randy Kath: Many of the States exempt state and federal workers.

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Randy Kath: But that's starting to go away to the usgs is starting to require certification and corps of engineers is starting to require certification.

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Randy Kath: Of the States that are in blue Michigan and iowa they do not have state license your laws, but they do allow you to take fundamentals of geology examination.

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Randy Kath: So your path to licensure is first you'll need to get a degree in geology or geological engineering or geosciences or something.

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Randy Kath: of that nature and then you take the first examination that's required by the States and green and that's called the fundamentals of geology exam and the fundamentals of geology exam is very.

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Randy Kath: comprehensive examination, it will cover pretty much everything you did as an undergraduate in geology.

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Randy Kath: So I highly recommend that you take that examination as soon as you get out of school.

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Randy Kath: You don't want to get down the road 1015 years and then have to come back into the fundamentals because you've probably forgotten, a lot of those fundamentals as you've started to be more of a practitioner and get more specialized in what you do.

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Randy Kath: Once you get experience after you pass the fundamentals of geology exam many States require anywhere from four to seven years work experience under a P professional engineer or professional geologists.

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Randy Kath: And then you come back and you take a second examination, which is called the practice of geology examination and when you pass that examination most states will give you a license.

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Randy Kath: And one one of the big advantages of licensure of all these green states is you have mobility of your license.

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Randy Kath: So, for instance, if I was an undergraduate and I took the fundamentals of geology in Georgia, where i'm at.

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Randy Kath: And I ended up moving out to Oregon I can take the practice of geology exam in Oregon and become licensed in Oregon and then, if I want to move to maine and get a license there.

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Randy Kath: All I do is apply to the main board and they see that i'm already have a license by examination and experience in the main board.

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Randy Kath: Of course, will make you pay some dollars and then you'll be licensed in maine and then 10 years down the road, I might want to move to Texas and Texas will recognize that as bug license as well, so it's a really advantageous for you to.

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Randy Kath: take the first step to licensure and take fundamentals, the geology examination as soon as you can when you get out of school.

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Randy Kath: And then that after you get your work experience take that second examination.

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Randy Kath: Now i'm university professor and i'm exempt I don't have to be licensed but i'm licensed in four states, because I do the public practice of geology, so I do consulting work and other work.

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Randy Kath: Outside the university and I really think it's important for your careers to start your path to license your by taking that first examination.

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Randy Kath: Okay i'll give it back to you Jennifer.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: So down at the bottom, you have our.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: could be at the top it'll be.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: A green share screen button.

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13345468004: yeah we didn't show up on your monitor.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Would you like to share.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: i'll stop the share of my screen and then Jim you should be able to see a green share screen.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: button across the bottom or the top where you have your control panel.

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13345468004: Okay, what do I do now, I get a window that.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Share button after that.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: he's bringing that up I did put in some information for the students or anyone who wants to attend GSA will be doing.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: A webinar on certification we actually have someone who recently got.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: The GI T and someone who recently got a PG and so they're there to answer questions and and help folks.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: I promise we'll get back to you soon Eric I apologize you're welcome to add a.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: few moments, or a few comments about certification if you'd like as well, please.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: We ran a mentor program yesterday and quite a few of the students had indicated they'd never heard of it, and so you know sadly this is something in your.

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Randy Kath: Then you won't you shouldn't get caught off guard and I remember one of my first interviews with golder associates, where I used to work I think wns T just bought golder.

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Randy Kath: And you can discuss how to your skills could be integrated into their different projects and don't be afraid to say, you know I don't know the answer to that, but i'm will i'll go look it up and see if I can get you an answer.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And that's a great tip to Randy for when you're presenting as well, and you have a question and someone says, well, did you look at whatever if you're not really sure as Randy said you say you know I don't know but that's a great point so that's perfect.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: So what would you like to add Eric you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: This is all it's a very low key relaxed session we want to answer your questions everyone's volunteered their time to help you so if you have questions, please throw those in the chat also.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: If you could let us know, maybe what where you are in your career, are you an undergrad or Grad students, what type of employment are you interested in, so that we can cater our questions to help you a little bit better.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And so i'll start with you Eric and then work my way up so do you feel that what you learned in school is extremely relevant to everything you do now.

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Eric Johnson: Working with other geologists hydrogeologist engineers chemists geochemists and stuff like that I think what school did provides just a very good knowledge base, you know provide some very good basic knowledge on.

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Eric Johnson: And so I would say, probably if you had to maybe put a proportion to it, I would say, probably a maybe a third of kind of what I do where I am now is based on my education and probably other two thirds was stuff that I learned later on, as I was in the profession.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: When they did a survey of you know 40 plus geoscience employers, most of them said, you know you don't need to know everything coming in, will train you on the job and it sounds like that's exactly what you were saying as well.

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Eric Johnson: In my professional career working with other more experienced geologists hydrogeologist to essentially taught me how to do those types of activities and that type of work.

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Eric Johnson: In addition to maybe hoping to short course or maybe using other I guess ways of increasing your knowledge base and skills and stuff like that so it's a little bit of a mix and also attending meetings like GSA and other stuff like that that definitely helped so it's kind of a mix.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Great Thank you very much, I appreciate that so Jim What about you how much has your.

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13345468004: And geoscience and then you know, the state of Alabama said okay here's what you really need to know, and they would send me and my colleagues to various workshops short courses and and even in house training, you know to learn regulations learn all the regulatory.

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13345468004: Coming up meetings like this, give me a little more latitude I can sit in on sessions workshops things that are more mature man my interests.

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Randy Kath: Many companies consulting companies to think if you have a PhD or to specialized and I ended up with a Masters and PhD and quantitative metamorphic metrology, which is very specialized.

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Randy Kath: But immediately when I started working assertive do instructional geology and mapping and understanding or bodies and our systems, so you learn that.

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Randy Kath: But to take structural geology as an undergrad and get all that, and then I going into consulting you know just having that foundation, even though i'd never did engineering geology.

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Randy Kath: I taught myself soil mechanics.

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Randy Kath: and mechanics and started doing kinematic analysis of rock slopes for highway cuts and so you just learn it on the job, and you just as long as you're willing to.

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Randy Kath: keep an open mind and put some extra effort outside of your job at home and on the weekends and build up your skill set.

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Randy Kath: For each one of your projects, well then, I went to work at the university after working in gold exploration and consulting.

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Randy Kath: And my backgrounds and metamorphic metrology and why don't teach metamorphic geology I teach structural geology engineering geology and economic geology which is really from my days working at homestay can golder.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: But why don't we go ahead i'll move to our last question, which is one I always like to end on, so what hard career lessons have you learned that if you could go back and start over you would do differently and i'll start with Randy I see staring up at the ceiling.

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Randy Kath: Well Jennifer i'm going to say I don't think I have a really hard lesson that I would I would do differently.

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Randy Kath: it's been very varied and having a when I left consulting and went into teaching I thought, if I taught the same thing every semester for 20 years i'd get stale.

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Randy Kath: I keep changing my classes keep doing consulting on the side so i'm pretty happy with the decisions that i've made I don't think i'd go back and change anything.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: that's helpful every major job i've ever had has all been through networking it's really made a really big difference to my career so i'll second that myself.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: What about you Eric if you could you know any hard lessons that you've learned or advice you'd give to yourself, when you were just starting out if you could.

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Eric Johnson: Definitely third the the networking recommendation that Jim and you had again I think that's very, very important, and whether you do that in person, using something like linkedin or whatever notes on whatever platform, the truth.

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Eric Johnson: With things, and you know if you see opportunities to do, maybe different things considered it not saying you have to dive into it, but definitely I think you will look to see because the environmental field as your gym and Raven mentioned it covers a lot of areas there's a lot to it.

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Eric Johnson: geological skills and knowledge and then maybe started to focus in on something that you really love that you really, really like I really liked the way around water response, I really like doing modeling around water models that are related offenses and then maybe try to adjust your.

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Eric Johnson: To those areas that are area that you really like I just pretty much stay doing the same thing about my professional career and I wish, maybe, looking back and maybe seek out maybe doing some other things, when I was young.

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13345468004: I really benefited from that and I actually found a new interest you know and that's something that I get to pursue a little bit here and a mom, but if you have opportunities like that thanks that maybe you're even mildly interested in I said go ahead and.

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13345468004: Try and try and pursue it it'll you know it'll probably help you grow as a professional.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: that's a great tip I like that a lot any other parting words that any of you would like to offer Randy jammer Eric.

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Randy Kath: If if any of the students have any questions or need information about licensure or wanting to discuss anything that we talked about today feel free to call me that there's my university phone number and my email so i'd be more than happy to talk to you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Wonderful Thank you and for all the students remember as you've heard here multiple times networking is a really important part of your career and so you've had a chance to meet these individuals so make sure you grab their contact info and if you.

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13345468004: yeah, you have my my email contact on feel free to drop me a line and i'll be happy to.

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13345468004: And I will make one recommendation of perseverance, I think, is is kind of the key.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Excellent Thank you very much, well we're a small group so in the session start again in 15 minutes, so this is a nice chance for you to have a few minutes to grab some water before you get going again.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thank you very much Randy and.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: I you just popped in to see how we were doing and I grabbed you and you hung out, and I really appreciate that and Jim and Eric Thank you so much for volunteering your time.

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Debora Marcinkowski: hi everyone nice to see all of you so on behalf of the Foundation, I just want to welcome all of you, and let you know that we are the arm that helps fund programs like this and others for students, if we were in person, I would invite you to come to our GSA foundation.

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13345468004: Welcome to my very messy Office, my name is TIM Keller i'm amanda geosciences staff in the groundwater branch of the Alabama department of environmental management and i'm happy to say, I recently completed my 25th and them here never thought I would be here this one.

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Randy Kath: Prior to teaching at the university I worked in gold exploration for about eight and a half years, and the Western United States since coming to the university I have now been there, as my 26 year it's hard to believe.

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Eric Johnson: I can do that, first of all, I could definitely second randy's recommendation as far as taking the fundamentals of geology exam as soon as you get out of school because I was in that group or did not take the exam until about 10 to 15 years.

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13345468004: Oh, thanks, if you might remember this from 2019 I I let a Randy and I lead a licensure workshop over in charleston.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: We ran a mentor program yesterday and quite a few of the students had indicated they'd never heard of it, and so you know sadly this is something in your.

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Randy Kath: Well, I think, Jim and Eric have covered a lot of it, but what I always tell my students is it's just like preparing for an exam you need to.

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Randy Kath: teamwork very important as Eric pointed out and go into then be competent and if you've you've done your homework and understand the company that you're working with.

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Randy Kath: Then you won't you shouldn't get caught off guard and I remember one of my first interviews with golder associates, where I used to work I think wns T just bought golder.

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Randy Kath: And you can discuss how to your skills could be integrated into their different projects and don't be afraid to say, you know I don't know the answer to that, but i'm will i'll go look it up and see if I can get you an answer.

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Eric Johnson: And so I would say, probably if you had to maybe put a proportion to it, I would say, probably a maybe a third of kind of what I do where I am now is based on my education and probably other two thirds was stuff that I learned later on, as I was in the profession.

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13345468004: We did you know.

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13345468004: I took you know they will tell you know if you if you came into our program and you would never studied hydro geology.

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13345468004: You know the a damn will send you to a couple of special classes on on groundwater they're they're basically to respond.

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13345468004: Courses I think one's called the princeton course and I can't remember what the other one was but yeah cars biology and you know you'll you'll learn the rudiments of that there but they but.

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13345468004: It where I work it's just mostly you know you know learn the regs learn the nature of.

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13345468004: Your record circle BP familiar with those requirements.

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13345468004: And then you know I never really did any.

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13345468004: The geology that I learned as an undergraduate it's way different from a.

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13345468004: Probably less science more science policy related things and then.

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13345468004: Eventually, as I progress in my career, I got saddled with rewriting.

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13345468004: got into manuals and technical manuals things like that.

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13345468004: But yeah you know.

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13345468004: You know it's like you know state government here it's probably a lot like private will teach you what we need to learn and and.

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13345468004: You know.

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13345468004: You know if you know if you if you, you know, if you like, that great.

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13345468004: That being said, I do go out on my own and keep up with my own continuing, as you know, in geosciences.

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13345468004: Coming up meetings like this, give me a little more latitude I can sit in on sessions workshops things that are more mature man my interests.

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13345468004: always be learning that's my that's my that's one.

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Recommendation I can make.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: that's a great tip Jim Thank you, what about you Randy.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Have you been using everything you've learned.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: In academia, I would think more so, but.

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13345468004: yeah definitely more.

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Randy Kath: So it is interesting because you know as as Jim and Eric have said is your academic education is really your foundation and you're going to get out you're going to learn things based on that foundation, so you really want that foundation to be an inch deep and a mile wide.

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Randy Kath: Many companies consulting companies to think if you have a PhD or to specialized and I ended up with a Masters and PhD and quantitative metamorphic metrology, which is very specialized.

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Randy Kath: But immediately when I started working assertive do instructional geology and mapping and understanding or bodies and our systems, so you learn that.

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Randy Kath: But to take structural geology as an undergrad and get all that, and then I going into consulting you know just having that foundation, even though i'd never did engineering geology.

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Randy Kath: I taught myself soil mechanics.

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Randy Kath: and mechanics and started doing kinematic analysis of rock slopes for highway cuts and so you just learn it on the job, and you just as long as you're willing to.

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Randy Kath: keep an open mind and put some extra effort outside of your job at home and on the weekends and build up your skill set.

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Randy Kath: For each one of your projects, well then, I went to work at the university after working in gold exploration and consulting.

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Randy Kath: And my backgrounds and metamorphic metrology and why don't teach metamorphic geology I teach structural geology engineering geology and economic geology which is really from my days working at homestay can golder.

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Randy Kath: So I built up that foundation and that's what got me the position at the university was the structure and economic portion of it, so do good and get that Foundation and the rest of it you'll learn on the job.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Excellent Thank you and we are a small group i'll just say again, students, if you want to ask a question, you can unmute yourself, you can type it in the chat you're welcome to do that.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: But why don't we go ahead i'll move to our last question, which is one I always like to end on, so what hard career lessons have you learned that if you could go back and start over you would do differently and i'll start with Randy I see staring up at the ceiling.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: And then i'll work my way down to.

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Eric.

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Randy Kath: Well Jennifer i'm going to say I don't think I have a really hard lesson that I would I would do differently.

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Randy Kath: i've been with my career path.

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Randy Kath: it's been very varied and having a when I left consulting and went into teaching I thought, if I taught the same thing every semester for 20 years i'd get stale.

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Randy Kath: I keep changing my classes keep doing consulting on the side so i'm pretty happy with the decisions that i've made I don't think i'd go back and change anything.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Like I fall and do you know that's the first time i've heard that answer that's really great to hear that's wonderful.

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13345468004: What about you, Jim any hard.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Lessons that you would do differently if you could look back you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: talk to your former young.

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Self.

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13345468004: But I tell my young so who.

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13345468004: Start networking more more aggressively.

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13345468004: I I really didn't develop a network until maybe a decade ago.

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13345468004: If I had started earlier, you know I think I would have I would have benefited from that maybe.

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13345468004: You know, maybe as soon as I graduated from from college.

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13345468004: That that would be something I would pass on to.

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13345468004: To the.

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13345468004: Any anybody who's an early career professional it does make a difference, your references, you know, the more you can get the better off you'll be.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: that's helpful every major job i've ever had has all been through networking it's really made a really big difference to my career so i'll second that myself.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: What about you Eric if you could you know any hard lessons that you've learned or advice you'd give to yourself, when you were just starting out if you could.

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Eric Johnson: Definitely third the the networking recommendation that Jim and you had again I think that's very, very important, and whether you do that in person, using something like linkedin or whatever notes on whatever platform, the truth.

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Eric Johnson: is very, very helpful and very rich.

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Eric Johnson: or the other thing I would say is keep an open mind.

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Eric Johnson: With things, and you know if you see opportunities to do, maybe different things considered it not saying you have to dive into it, but definitely I think you will look to see because the environmental field as your gym and Raven mentioned it covers a lot of areas there's a lot to it.

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13345468004: And there you might have opportunities to.

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Eric Johnson: Do different things.

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Eric Johnson: Whether it's your maybe as an internship when you're still in school or maybe afterwards and you start to get out in your professional career, you may want to work on something.

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Eric Johnson: For that, but then.

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Eric Johnson: You may want to start to do some work, maybe, if you want to stay in the private sector doing more water resources related work so see an opportunity there may be fine you're still young.

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Eric Johnson: Because I think you get to maybe see a lot of different areas where you might be able to use your skills.

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Eric Johnson: geological skills and knowledge and then maybe started to focus in on something that you really love that you really, really like I really liked the way around water response, I really like doing modeling around water models that are related offenses and then maybe try to adjust your.

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Eric Johnson: Your career professions.

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Eric Johnson: To those areas that are area that you really like I just pretty much stay doing the same thing about my professional career and I wish, maybe, looking back and maybe seek out maybe doing some other things, when I was young.

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Eric Johnson: Rather than just kind of staying doing environmental.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Excellent Thank you.

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13345468004: yeah.

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Please do.

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13345468004: um yeah I concur with Eric.

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13345468004: You know gosh over a decade ago, I want to learn to write policy.

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13345468004: But there were no opportunities here, where I work, so I joined a committee at GSA and spent three years working on things like decision statements and White Papers and.

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13345468004: yeah I went in there, knowing absolutely nothing, and when I was done, I came out.

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13345468004: With a whole different skill set in terms of editing and writing and being able to communicate.

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13345468004: highly technical issues to a to the light public and.

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13345468004: I really benefited from that and I actually found a new interest you know and that's something that I get to pursue a little bit here and a mom, but if you have opportunities like that thanks that maybe you're even mildly interested in I said go ahead and.

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13345468004: Try and try and pursue it it'll you know it'll probably help you grow as a professional.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: that's a great tip I like that a lot any other parting words that any of you would like to offer Randy jammer Eric.

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Randy Kath: Jennifer I just put in the chat that.

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Randy Kath: If if any of the students have any questions or need information about licensure or wanting to discuss anything that we talked about today feel free to call me that there's my university phone number and my email so i'd be more than happy to talk to you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Wonderful Thank you and for all the students remember as you've heard here multiple times networking is a really important part of your career and so you've had a chance to meet these individuals so make sure you grab their contact info and if you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: have questions certainly follow.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Up later.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Any other.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: comments or questions from our students.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: or Jim you're welcome to comment as well, I apologize.

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13345468004: Oh.

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13345468004: yeah, you have my my email contact on feel free to drop me a line and i'll be happy to.

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13345468004: offer you whatever whatever advice I have.

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13345468004: And I will make one recommendation of perseverance, I think, is is kind of the key.

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13345468004: To getting a job as well you know if.

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13345468004: You know, it can take a while, particularly and.

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13345468004: recessionary times, but if you keep plugging away, you know eventually you'll land that first job and from there, you know you'll you'll move forward.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Excellent Thank you very much, well we're a small group so in the session start again in 15 minutes, so this is a nice chance for you to have a few minutes to grab some water before you get going again.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thank you very much Randy and.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: I you just popped in to see how we were doing and I grabbed you and you hung out, and I really appreciate that and Jim and Eric Thank you so much for volunteering your time.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: We really appreciate it very much.

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I hope you have a wonderful.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Thank you so much, everyone Thank you have a great day and a.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: Good rest of the meeting.

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Eric Johnson: Thank you.

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RISE Jennifer Nocerino: bye.

RISE Jennifer Nocerino: bye.