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Ellen Mecray

Sep 15, 2026

6:13
And what type of work were you doing there?
6:16
So I started out in my internship working in the sediment lab, which is basically sifting sediments into different sizes and then assessing how much of each grain size there was.
6:28
And then I was there for almost a decade.
6:35
And during that time, I became the lab manager.
6:38
So I was responsible for running the chemistry and geochemistry labs.
6:45
I did all sorts of things there.
6:49
Working with chemicals, I was taking, I was in field work again, which meant I was going out on ships and taking sediment samples and sediment cores all around the New York Bight area, the Long Island Sound, the Gulf of Maine, Lake Champlain.

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22:01
From your experience, what is the job outlook for students looking to find positions in climate science these days? What types of organizations employ climate experts? Can you talk a little bit about that?

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