Andrea Andrea BalbasBalbas

CUNY Queens CollegeCUNY Queens CollegeUndergraduate BS GeologyUndergraduate BS Geology

Aspiring Research GeophysicistAspiring Research Geophysicist

Heavy Metal Signatures and Heavy Metal Signatures and Anthropogenic Impacts on Anthropogenic Impacts on Western Long Island SoundWestern Long Island Sound

Science Steering Committee Science Steering Committee Student ObserverStudent Observer

NASA AcademyNASA Academy

Antarctic Antarctic CorrespondentCorrespondent

Antarctic CorrespondentScience Outreach

Antarctic Correspondent

““This is why I love science. Because it is about This is why I love science. Because it is about the value of perpetual questioning. Because at the value of perpetual questioning. Because at its core it is about considering and then its core it is about considering and then reconsidering the facts. It is a constant and reconsidering the facts. It is a constant and unyielding effort to find and reveal something unyielding effort to find and reveal something that is more true. Even in science there are few that is more true. Even in science there are few truths but many partial ones. So, we hunt and truths but many partial ones. So, we hunt and we dig. We travel to the bottom of the world to we dig. We travel to the bottom of the world to gain more facts that we can consider and then gain more facts that we can consider and then reconsider. The power of science resides not in reconsider. The power of science resides not in its answers but in the questions it provokes. its answers but in the questions it provokes. Legendary scientists are remembered less for Legendary scientists are remembered less for the answers they’ve given us and more for the the answers they’ve given us and more for the questions they had the courage to ask.” questions they had the courage to ask.”

-Andrea Balbas for Ice Stories from -Andrea Balbas for Ice Stories from AntarcticaAntarctica