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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.

When Will We Run Out of Lithium?Environment
What Situation Does a Thick Tree Ring Indicate?Botany
What Is the Problem With the Ogallala Aquifer?Earth & Space
What Types of Methods Are Used for Studying the Climate of the Past?Environment
How Does Groundwater Work? From Rain to Well Earth & Space
Is Staten Island Sinking? The Science of Land Subsidence Earth & Space
What Is Primary Water? The Theory and the Science Earth & Space
Are Earth’s Oxygen Levels Decreasing?Earth & Space
What Is Earth System Science?Earth & Space
Why Is Groundwater Mining Causing Groundwater Depletion?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If the Earth Rotated in the Opposite Direction?Earth & Space
How Does Soil Incorporate All 4 Spheres?Earth & Space
When Will the Colorado River Dry Up?Environment
How Much Water Enters the Hydrologic Cycle?Earth & Space
What Are Springs? The Science Behind Their Formation Earth & Space
Is the Carbon Cycle a Closed System?Environment
Why Is Houston Sinking? The Causes of Land Subsidence Earth & Space
What Is the Slow Carbon Cycle and How Does It Work?Environment
When Will Earth Have 25-Hour Days?Earth & Space
What Geological Roles Does Groundwater Play?Earth & Space
How Are Earth’s Surface Materials Recycled?Earth & Space
How Groundwater Overdraft Occurs and Its Consequences Earth & Space
What Are Natural Springs and How Do They Form?Earth & Space
Where Did Earth’s Water Come From?Earth & Space
What Is a Confined Aquifer and How Does It Work?Earth & Space
What Is Characteristic of Low Head Dams?Physics
What Is Groundwater Discharge and Why Is It Important?Earth & Space
Why Don’t Natural Sources of Chlorine Destroy the Ozone?Earth & Space
How Does the Length of a Watershed Affect Its Function?Earth & Space
How Did Photosynthesis Change the Earth’s Atmosphere?Environment