Kate Rauner is an engineer living by the Gila Ntnl Forest, a volunteer firefighter, writer of science fiction novels and science inspired poetry.
Kate Rauner is an engineer and Cold War Warrior (honestly, the US Congress said so) who worked in America’s nuclear weapons complex. Now retired on the edge of the southwest’s Gila National Forest with her husband, cats, llamas, and dog, she’s also a volunteer firefighter and writer of science fiction novels and science inspired poetry.
Kate says: I worked for over twenty years at the Rocky Flats Plant. During the Cold War, I was a Chemical Engineer in a plutonium recycling and purification facility. I’ve held plutonium in my hands. Not many people can say that.
After the Cold War fizzled out, I switched to environmental engineering and project planning.
When the decommissioning of Rocky Flats was complete (it’s a wildlife refuge now), I moved to the copper mines around Silver City, New Mexico, including the Santa Rita mine. Santa Rita has been mined since Native Americans collected copper there long before the Spaniards entered Mexico.
I’m well on my way to achieving my life’s goal of becoming an eccentric old woman.
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Hi Kate, I have nominated you for both the Mystery and Versatile Blogger Awards. Thank you for sharing with us your ecstatic journey of science fiction and poetry! We look forward to more of your beautiful posts. Nominated you here: https://moosmosis.org/2017/09/24/cheers-to-one-million-lifelong-learners/
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Wow – thanks so much. Everyone – click the link and see! I’m always learning new things. Because science is always in motion. Your site, by students and for students, looks fascinating. I’m esp glad you like my poetry – writing poems should be fun and combining poetry with science news is perfectly fun.
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You’re welcome, Kate! You absolutely deserved it – not everyone has a beautiful blog on the intersection of arts and sciences like you do 🙂 All the best, Moosmosis
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Hi there Kate again! Hope your week’s going great 🙂 We’d also deeply appreciate it if you could support our open-access youth education platform Moosmosis by liking us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/Moosmosis/ It’d mean the world to us. 🙂 As always, best wishes!
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And so I reciprocate and am delighted by what I discover 🙂 Pleased to me such an accomplished individual as yourself 🙂
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Likewise 🙂
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Hi,
I’m Tokoni, A student and poet. Its nice to meet your I’d like to invite you to my blog, http://www.insanitybeautiful.wordpress.com if you’re interested. Thanks!
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Downloaded your book and it is on my reading list for 2014.
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy it. If you’d like, post a review.
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Wish I could be in such a place like yours.. Lucky you… Great blog you have here… Happy blogging…
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It’s a very special place: http://www.fs.usda.gov/gila/
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You are close to nature….It is a greatest gift 🙂 your blog is amazing. Looking forward for more posts. cheers 🙂
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Thanks sudharsan. It’s my fortune to live at the edge of the Gila Forest. I’ve left my yard natural and share it with rabbits and deer. This time of year hummingbirds swarm around their feeder all day. Chipmunks live in my rock garden, so there is also an occasional rattle snake.
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That’s great to hear! 🙂
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