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I'm Dr. Lynnae Quick and I study
volcanoes on the planets and moons in

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our solar system. One of my biggest
inspirations was Dr. Beth Brown and she

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was an astrophysicist here at NASA. To
see an African American woman succeeding

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in science in a field where there
aren't many minorities and aren't many

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women, was inspiring to me. I really was
not a big science geek until high school.

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I took a biology course my freshman year
in high school and had an excellent

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teacher. And that's when I decided that
science was cool. Then by my junior

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year of high school, I took an earth
science course, and one of the units that

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we cover it was astronomy. I became
hooked on space. I thought it was very

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cool that someone could make a career
out of studying outer space. The coolest

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thing about being where I am has to be
being one of the first people to see new

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pictures of the surfaces of a planet, or
a moon, or an asteroid that a spacecraft

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has sent back, and that no one else has seen.
And we see all of these cool features. We

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have to put our heads together and
figure out how these features formed. One

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of my hobbies is writing, and I like to
write creatively. So being able to

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have that skill helps me to paint a very
nice picture of what's happening on the

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surfaces of other planets and moons. When
I want to talk to other people, or when I

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want to write about it, creative writing
helps that. For me, the largest impact

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that I could make though would be to
broaden people's perception of what a

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scientist is and what a scientist looks
like. If my presence and my work has that

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type of impact I feel like I've done my
job and I've been a part of something,

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something that's significant.