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Labor report: Metro Denver has rich streaks of relatively rare occupations

Earth science jobs overrepresented in region’s job mix, as are airline workers

Geoscientist Jeff Pigati works with a carbon extraction and graphitization system at the U.S. Geological Survey at the Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado on Friday, September 2, 2022. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Geoscientist Jeff Pigati works with a carbon extraction and graphitization system at the U.S. Geological Survey at the Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado on Friday, September 2, 2022. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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Jeff Pigati, a research geologist working at the U.S. Geological Services in Lakewood, ran seeds from a site where human footprints were found at White Sands National Park alongside tracks of Wolly Mammoths and Saber Tooth tigers through his lab equipment to get a good Carbon-14 lab sample.
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