Kate Sidlar
Profile
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Time ZoneEastern
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RoleScientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online
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Research Interests (300 words)I have studied food web interactions, specifically the interactions of plants, animals, and fungi, with fungi being the main focus of my undergraduate and graduate research.
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Profile Question 1What is the coolest thing you have discovered or learned about plants?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):I have 2.
1. Plants take air and sunlight and make sugar. How cool is that?!?!
2. Plants seem static because they're immobile, but they interact with so many things around them - insects, herbivores, fungi, other plants... The depth of connections in a forest is mind boggling.
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Profile Question 2When and why did you decide to go into a science career?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):I liked science when I was in high school, but I was never super good at math. I ended up going to school to get a music degree. A year after I graduated, a friend commented that I should consider the Applied Biomolecular Science program she was in. I hated it - it was really hard to get back into school when I hadn't studied science or math for 5 years. Then one day in botany class I was daydreaming and when I looked up, the professor had a huge photo of a tree with buttress roots and was talking about their adaptation to thin soils. I was instantly hooked on plants. I learned how to study (school is much easier with study skills!) and I've been going forward ever since.
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Profile Question 3What is best about being a scientist?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):I learn something new every single day! Sometimes it's a new way of figuring out an old problem, sometimes it's something new in science news, and sometimes it's something no one has ever tried before. But every day is different and every day I learn a little more about how the world works.
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AvailabilityI am currently available for mentoring, please send me team match invitations
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Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?2
Recent Posts
Trendy Farmers
Kate Sidlar
You're welcome! I was happy to do it! I've never had students test sand before, so this was really interesting for me too and I am super impressed by how different your results from each of the trails was!
Please…
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Trendy Farmers
Kate Sidlar
Hi Trendy Farmers!
Amazing work! Your results are super great!
I have some comments: before you present your results, you might want to change the names from "trial 1," "trail 2," etc to names that…
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Trendy Farmers
Kate Sidlar
Howdy Trendy Farmers!
You have some amazing growth!! Have you thought at all about what caused some of the plants to grow better than others? Are you results what you expected? Why or why not?
Do you have plans to present your…
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