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Abstract
Early on in my master's program, I came upon the paper that set me on my scientific pathway. Having left my job as a mechanical engineer to look for work that I found more meaningful, I was drawn to the study of Acid Rain, because I wanted to play a part in addressing a serious environmental problem and also felt—perhaps because my mother was a chemist—that I really should learn more aquatic chemistry. Working as a field and lab technician in the bustling lab of Charley Driscoll at Syracuse University was a good start.
Citation
Pardo, Linda H. 2018. It is Nitrogen That Binds Us: The Established Researcher. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 99(1): 56-57. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1377.