As a child, Jessie spent countless hours exploring her rear stream, catching tadpoles and frogs. It sparked a lifelong fascination for water, leading it to discover the Water science Program at Uw-Green Bay. She is one of the daring visionaries who have a positive impact by solving water -related problems. Listen to its story below.
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Transcription: I thought for a very long time that water was an inexhaustible resource that it is supposed to be, but we pollute it and use it faster than it can be cleaned and reconstituted. I chose water science because I have always had an interest in water. As a child, I played in this stream for hours catching tadpoles and frogs and I just spend the time for my life. When I looked at possible areas to specialize and the water science came to the UWGB, I felt that it was the right choice for me. Some of my favorite things on the water science program are laboratories, work in the field. That we are outside. We put our hands in the ground. We play with water. We bring it back to the laboratory and we analyze what exists, what is. I would say at the moment, my laboratory linked to favorite water science is the ecology of rivers. Last week, we were able to look at the data we had rubbed on this rock in the bed of our stream. There are a lot of things that we don’t see and that are really interesting for me. One of my favorite courses in water science was hydrogeology and what happens when water and rock interact. In this laboratory, you can actually bail out a well. You learn to use these tools here on the campus, which is quite remarkable. I really enjoyed the class of the floors, because I like what is going on in this aquatic-rock-sol interface and understand a lot of chemical reactions that take place there. I cannot say enough about my water science teachers, they were phenomenal. I am the undergraduate researcher, I assign Dr. Berns-Herrboldt on his project dealing with phosphorus in the sediments of the rivers along the Wisconsin river. These opportunities make me all the more marketable when I go out on the labor market. My main goal wherever I finished is that I can help solve water problems.