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Mike Gooseff
Scientist and engineer
University of Colorado Boulder

- Trips to Antarctica: 14
- Studying: Streams
- Discovered: Abrupt, short-lived events caused by climate warming might contribute as much as higher temperatures to long-term changes to Antarctica’s ecosystems.
- Amazed that: The landscape is so big! He might have known it, but there’s really no way to understand, except to experience it.
- Said: “The world is connected in ways that we may not have expected and it’s more connected than we expected.â€
- Fun fact: He just turned 46 years old and got his first tattoo. (He won’t say where.)
Photo: Ariel Zych