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Kate McCarthy is a Senior Geologist at Golder and Professional Geologist in Texas. She always knew she wanted to be a scientist and discovered geology in college. In fact, Kate has been working in the environmental field for her entire career! An understanding of geology is critical to predicting how contaminants will move in the soil and groundwater and how they can be remediated to keep people and animals safe. While most of her time now is spent analyzing data and writing reports, some of the best days on the job were when, as a young geologist, she was in the field installing monitoring wells and collecting soil and groundwater samples.