Local Kid

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Local Kid Makes Good
with help from the hometown folks
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by Kim Kastens Hamilton High School Class of 1971
Presentation at symposium in honor of Charlie
McClennen, Colgate University, 1 June 2006
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Summer of 1968 Program for local high
ability high school students Research a
career Oceanographer Research a topic
Law of the Sea
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Summer of 1968 Program for local high
ability high school students Research a
career Oceanographer Research a topic
Law of the Sea
Turekians Oceans course
Geology Major
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Spring 1972 The Eutrophication of Lake
Moraine (Chemistry 20b)
Nitrate phospate measured in Colgate chemistry
lab
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Spring 1972 The Eutrophication of Lake
Moraine (Chemistry 20b)
Earth Environmental Science Journalism Program
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Summer of 1974
Envision darker hair here
How fast would relict continental shelf ridges be
flattened by water currents at present-day
current velocities?
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ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, 1975 NORTHEASTERN
SECTION, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK BELOAD TRANSPORT OF
SLOPING SANDY SURFACES AND THE LIFE EXPECTANCY
OF CONTINENTAL SHELF TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES
Yale Senior Thesis on sandwaves in Long Island
Sound
SUNY StonyBrook job working on sand in New York
harbor
Scripps Shore Processes group
Scripps Deep Tow group
Lamont SeaMARC I group
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Summer of 1974

• There are questions that havent been answered
  yet.
• Thats OK.
• I can figure out a way to answer such a
  question.
• And that feels good.
• And other people will be interested to hear what
  I have to say.

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Thank You
Bottom line It takes a village.. to raise a
scientist.
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