Brian McGrath

Aug 29, 2023 | timeforkids.com | Brian McGrath

Jean-Phillippe (JP) Bergmann is nursery research supervisor at Lundberg Family Farms, in Richvale, California. He develops new varieties of rice that are suited for organic farming. Bergmann described his work to Your Hot Job. What does a nursery research supervisor do? I work in a breeding nursery, in a greenhouse. That’s where we create new varieties of rice for farmers to grow. We do small-scale tests of everything the company is doing: planting, drying and storage, and milling.

Aug 29, 2023 | timeforkids.com | Brian McGrath

Jean-Phillippe (JP) Bergmann is nursery research supervisor at Lundberg Family Farms, in Richvale, California. He develops new varieties of rice that are suited for organic farming. Bergmann described his work to Your Hot Job. What does a nursery research supervisor do? I work in a breeding nursery, in a greenhouse. That’s where we create new varieties of rice for farmers to grow. We do small-scale tests of everything the company is doing: planting, drying and storage, and milling.

Aug 22, 2023 | timeforkids.com | Brian McGrath

Maya Warren is an ice-cream scientist and a consultant at SMiZE & Dream. Her job has taken her all over the world to discover new flavors of ice cream. Warren graduated from Carleton College, in Minnesota, and earned a PhD in food science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She spoke to Your Hot job about the sweet life. What does an ice-cream scientist do? I would say I provide happiness in ways that people didn’t even know could exist. And I do that through ice cream.

Aug 8, 2023 | timeforkids.com | Brian McGrath

John Gruener studies soil at NASA. His work is crucial to the agency’s plans to build research bases on the moon and Mars. Gruener surveys a field of rocks that resemble those found on the moon. COURTESY JOHN GREUNERJohn Gruener is a planetary scientist at NASA. He works in exploration science, which is part of ARES—Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science—at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. His department creates lunar simulant, or fake moon dirt, out of space dust and Earth soil.

Jul 25, 2023 | timeforkids.com | Brian McGrath

A captioner talks about his work making real-time transcripts for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for captioners is going up. Joshua Edwards is a captioner. Using a stenographic machine, he taps out captions for people who are deaf or hard of hearing so they can follow the words of a stage musical or lecture. He got his start as a court reporter, making transcripts of legal trials. Here, Edwards talks about his work.