1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:03,210 I'm Dr. Lynnae Quick and I study volcanoes on the planets and moons in 2 00:00:03,210 --> 00:00:07,200 our solar system. One of my biggest inspirations was Dr. Beth Brown and she 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,219 was an astrophysicist here at NASA. To see an African American woman succeeding 4 00:00:11,219 --> 00:00:13,590 in science in a field where there aren't many minorities and aren't many 5 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:18,090 women, was inspiring to me. I really was not a big science geek until high school. 6 00:00:18,090 --> 00:00:21,570 I took a biology course my freshman year in high school and had an excellent 7 00:00:21,570 --> 00:00:25,320 teacher. And that's when I decided that science was cool. Then by my junior 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,109 year of high school, I took an earth science course, and one of the units that 9 00:00:28,109 --> 00:00:32,130 we cover it was astronomy. I became hooked on space. I thought it was very 10 00:00:32,130 --> 00:00:37,110 cool that someone could make a career out of studying outer space. The coolest 11 00:00:37,110 --> 00:00:41,370 thing about being where I am has to be being one of the first people to see new 12 00:00:41,370 --> 00:00:45,570 pictures of the surfaces of a planet, or a moon, or an asteroid that a spacecraft 13 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:49,559 has sent back, and that no one else has seen. And we see all of these cool features. We 14 00:00:49,559 --> 00:00:53,039 have to put our heads together and figure out how these features formed. One 15 00:00:53,039 --> 00:00:57,239 of my hobbies is writing, and I like to write creatively. So being able to 16 00:00:57,239 --> 00:01:02,010 have that skill helps me to paint a very nice picture of what's happening on the 17 00:01:02,010 --> 00:01:05,909 surfaces of other planets and moons. When I want to talk to other people, or when I 18 00:01:05,909 --> 00:01:10,290 want to write about it, creative writing helps that. For me, the largest impact 19 00:01:10,290 --> 00:01:14,850 that I could make though would be to broaden people's perception of what a 20 00:01:14,850 --> 00:01:19,170 scientist is and what a scientist looks like. If my presence and my work has that 21 00:01:19,170 --> 00:01:22,350 type of impact I feel like I've done my job and I've been a part of something, 22 00:01:22,350 --> 00:01:26,030 something that's significant.