{"id":796,"date":"2020-11-11T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:19:44","slug":"gdcteam-shilla-chepkemoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/gdcteam-shilla-chepkemoi\/","title":{"rendered":"#GDCTeam Shilla Chepkemoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-1536x1123.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Shilla-2048x1497.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Science field &ndash; <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Geochemistry&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Geochemistry is derived from two words, &amp;quot;Geo&rdquo; meaning Earth, and &amp;quot;Chemistry&rdquo; referring to the chemical composition of a substance. Geochemistry, therefore, refers to the study of the chemical composition of the Earth.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/geochemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Geochemistry<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Define <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Geochemistry&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;Geochemistry is derived from two words, &amp;quot;Geo&rdquo; meaning Earth, and &amp;quot;Chemistry&rdquo; referring to the chemical composition of a substance. Geochemistry, therefore, refers to the study of the chemical composition of the Earth.&amp;lt;br\/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/glossary\/geochemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Geochemistry<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the Chemistry of the earth. I carry out sampling and analysis of thermal fluids sampled from the earth&rsquo;s interior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Describe your day in the field<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My day involves the sampling of the geothermal fluids. Gases are collected in gas flasks while the water samples are collected in watertight bottles. Then there is an immediate analysis of the collected samples and treatment of the samples for later analysis in the laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#GDCTeam interview with Shilla Chepkemoi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gdc-team","tag-gdcteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdc.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}