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so AAP is the student airborne research program

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And what's really exciting about AAP is we tend to we tend to find students

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who are at smaller universities who might not have access to research opportunities within their university.

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And we give them what I consider like a once in a lifetime chance to come out, see how scientists within

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Nassr Noa, some of our other government agencies, different universities, collect data on on flying laboratories

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I'm from a very small town in southwestern Pennsylvania from a college called Pen West University of California.

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And whenever I say small, I mean, like, very small.

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There's only like 7 to 8 people in my class.

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I major in meteorology and climate science.

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So it's a very, very small university.

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So I'm very proud to be able to say that I got into this

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Hey, the ice seems like it's at a pretty high level right now.

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Is anybody else saying that?

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We are there to learn.

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We're there to observe, see what's going on with the scientists, learn about the tools and instrumentation firsthand.

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Personal ask any questions.

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We have things that we can't find online.

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things that you couldn't typically research?

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We have the expert in front of us to ask those questions too, Julia, you see that background right there?

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Can you turn that 90 degrees to our in that way?

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Thank you.

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this year we have the whole air sampling group, we have the atmospheric

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aerosols group, we have the land group, and we have the oceans group.

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So those are pretty broad research topics.

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But what's really cool is the students, you know, they get assigned into these groups randomly, I'm a geologist.

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I'm on the ground.

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I love the earth.

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And they put me in a group with air.

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And so they do that and it makes us really interdisciplinary.

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So, you know, I had so many project ideas for the land and throwing me into the air group.

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I'm having to learn about all these things.

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I wouldn't typically study with my degree plan and incorporate them into the field, but I do love because of

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the way that this program works, dividing us into four different groups, you're thrown into areas that you're very unfamiliar with,

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So being able to explore all these different things as a geologist, being up in the air, looking at aerosol chemistry,

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I don't think would ever have crossed my mind being able to take in new experiences

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and adapt that into my form of knowledge and understanding of the world

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helps create these wonderful discoveries that are going to change the world.

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And on top of that, they're extremely excited to teach you about everything that they know

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because they're excited to see the future and we are the future.

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in terms of my future, who knows?

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Maybe I'll be back in this facility sometime