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Rachel Slater teaches high school environmental science in Frankfort, Kentucky. For 17 years, she has taught secondary science at a public high school, leading courses in earth systems and environmental processes. Her classes participate in a schoolyard stream-monitoring project to sample runoff and evaluate aquatic health. Slater studied environmental science as an undergraduate and received a master of arts in teaching in science education from Millersville University.

Are Aquifers Renewable? The Science of Groundwater Recharge
What Are Sphere Interactions in the Earth System?
How Are Our 24 Time Zones Related to Earth’s Rotation?
Is the Earth Getting Bigger? The Science Says No
How Did Hurricane Katrina Affect the Geosphere?
What Is Groundwater Flow and What Drives It?
What Would Happen If Earth’s Rotation Speed Increased?
What Is the Problem With the Ogallala Aquifer?
How Does Groundwater Work? From Rain to Well
Is Staten Island Sinking? The Science of Land Subsidence
What Is Primary Water? The Theory and the Science
Are Earth’s Oxygen Levels Decreasing?
What Is Earth System Science?
Why Is Groundwater Mining Causing Groundwater Depletion?
What Would Happen If the Earth Rotated in the Opposite Direction?
How Does Soil Incorporate All 4 Spheres?
How Much Water Enters the Hydrologic Cycle?
What Are Springs? The Science Behind Their Formation
Why Is Houston Sinking? The Causes of Land Subsidence
When Will Earth Have 25-Hour Days?
What Geological Roles Does Groundwater Play?
How Are Earth’s Surface Materials Recycled?
How Groundwater Overdraft Occurs and Its Consequences
What Are Natural Springs and How Do They Form?
Where Did Earth’s Water Come From?
What Is a Confined Aquifer and How Does It Work?
What Is Groundwater Discharge and Why Is It Important?
Why Don’t Natural Sources of Chlorine Destroy the Ozone?
How Does the Length of a Watershed Affect Its Function?
Is Earth a Living Organism? A Scientific Look