Stay Curious: Mike Bell

Duration:

3 minutes, 13 seconds

Learn about how research scientist, Mike Bell, started his science career by just playing in the dirt.

Meet Mike Bell

Mike Bell is an research scientist who works on monitoring air pollution and how it relates to changes in plants and animals. He found his passion for plants while working at Craters of the Moon and Joshua Tree National Park and learned to appreciate a plant's ability to survive.

He was always an outdoorsy kind of kid and his curiousity in the natural world was supported by his mother. His advice to kids is to continue to play in the dirt and to keep asking "what's this?" and "what's that?".

"If you want to be a scientist you don't have to be in a lab. You don't have to wear a lab coat. You can stick your hands in the dirt."