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Speaker 1
Hi, I'm Jenny.

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Speaker 2
Hi, I'm Katie. We did a survey where we asked, teachers in the geosciences, professionals in the geosciences, as well students in the geosciences as to what they thought an integral part of a field education was. Meaning, what do you gain from a field education that you don't necessarily gain from an in classroom education? Through this, we've come through all of our answers and we found four separate, aspects that were very recurrent in all the answers.

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Speaker 2
The first one was scale. The second one was, independent thinking. The third one was immersion, and the fourth one was building a community.

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Speaker 1
When looking at scale in the field, you have to understand that what you see ranges from the atomic level all the way to the tectonic level.

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Speaker 2
So when you.

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Speaker 1
See a small scale fold, you have to understand the relationship that that has with a regional geological setting. When you are thinking about independent thinking in the field, you have to understand that your interpretations are valid and it may not match exactly what you learned in the classroom. But sometimes the book isn't perfect, and that's kind of what the field teaches you, that the classroom does not.

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Speaker 2
As far as as far as school immersion goes, especially with the idea, this field camp, you're working a minimum eight hours, eight hours a day in the field looking at rocks, whereas in the classroom you're only in the classroom for 1 or 2 hours, maybe a couple times a week. So you really do get a full immersion, and you're really thrown into the whole swimming pool of geology during that seven weeks.

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Speaker 2
And in my experience, I would say that I might have even learned more in seven and a half weeks than I did in a whole year of my geoscience education, just in the classroom. It's really when everything starts to click for you and you can go see things and see these, observations and then make your own interpretations from the rocks that you're actually looking at.

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Speaker 2
And besides that, the fourth aspect would be building a community. When you're with people for 7 hours to 8 hours a day, sweaty, looking at rocks, dressed out, or having fun. You really gain a sense of collegiality and community that I don't think you would gain otherwise unless you were outside playing in the rocks together.

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Speaker 2
And besides that, besides the support and, the support and friends you gain from that, you also, if your friend's is good at math and you're good at chemistry, then you can help each other and really build off each other. Or you can also gain different perspectives also from, being around different geoscientists in the field.

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Speaker 2
So thank you. Thank you.