{"id":45610,"date":"2023-07-07T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/?p=45610"},"modified":"2023-07-07T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:34:13","slug":"umss23-student-profile-hanna-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/2023\/07\/07\/umss23-student-profile-hanna-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"UMSS23 Student Profile: Hanna Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though she had always been good at science and interested in the natural world, it was a long while before Hanna Brooks thought of herself as a scientist. It wasn\u2019t until a casual conversation during her sophomore year at Virginia Tech that led to her studying rock samples in Greece, that she first owned the title for herself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, Brooks is working toward her PhD at 91¸£Àû, studying pollution found in ice cores of the North Pacific region. \u201cThe position of the North Pacific region (Alaska, USA and Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia) uniquely links the Asian and North American continents when examining historical trends in pollutants.\u201d For her dissertation, Brooks is \u201cexamining changes in lead (Pb) values over the past two millennia (340 to 2022 CE) using ice cores from Begguya (Mr. Hunter), Alaska.\u201d According to Brooks winds carry \u201cdust and pollution from Asia across the North Pacific,\u201d depositing them at Begguya. \u201cCritical changes in culture (industrialization, globalization of world markets, Covid-19 pandemic), technology (advancement of industrial recycling), and policy and legislation (phase out of leaded gasoline) have direct impacts on Pb transported to and deposited at Begguya.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Begguya ice core project is \u201cpart of a global collaborative effort including researchers from the University of Maine, Dartmouth College, Colby College, University of New Hampshire, Oregon STate University, Colorado State University and Paul Scherrer Institute to understand the impacts of natural and anthropogenic climate change in the North Pacific in the time since the last ice age.\u201d Brooks has had the opportunity to work with several faculty mentors and advisors, which she says has furthered her professional network and opened up future collaborative opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI always recommend that you have lots of conversations with your professors and teaching assistants. Ask them what they research and why they are passionate about it. You never know where these conversations may lead, and what curiosity their passions may spark in you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though she had always been good at science and interested in the natural world, it was a long while before Hanna Brooks thought of herself as a scientist. It wasn\u2019t until a casual conversation during her sophomore year at Virginia Tech that led to her studying rock samples in Greece, that she first owned the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":45611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"148","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-umss-student-profiles-2023"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":148,"label":"UMSS Student Profiles 2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2023\/07\/Hanna-Brooks-1024x803.jpg",1024,803,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Deanna","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/author\/djordan\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":148,"name":"UMSS Student Profiles 2023","slug":"umss-student-profiles-2023","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":148,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":52,"count":6,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":148,"category_count":6,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UMSS Student Profiles 2023","category_nicename":"umss-student-profiles-2023","category_parent":52}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45613,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610\/revisions\/45613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}