Color Photo: Alida Ortiz Sotomayor surrounded by four students outside. Onscreen text: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor
Video footage: Camera submerged in shallow water
Color photo: Puerto Rican coast
Color photo: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor at the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve pointing out information to a group of students.
Brenda Soler Figueroa speaks directly to the camera against white background. She has long curly black hair and wears a teal sleeveless blouse. Onscreen Text: Brena María Soler Figueroa, Marine Ecologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Black and white photo: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor standing on a beach with five male colleges.
Figueroa reappears.
Black and white photo: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor on beach in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico followed by students.
Black and white photo: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor on a boat with seven students in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
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Color photos: Brenda Soler Figueroa driving a boat in La Parguera, Puerto Rico; snorkeling underwater during Field Trip in Jamaica; Collecting water samples aboard boat at Bahia Fosforescente, La Parguera, Puerto Rico; filling a test tube with liquid at Isla Magueyes, La Parguera, Puerto Rico; Posing in front of sign for Departamente de Ciencias Marinas at Isla Magueyes, La Parguera, Puerto Rico.
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Group color photo: Students at the beach listening to their professor.
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Color photos: Sotomayor holding a scientific sample while 6 other scientists observe; Álida speaking to group of students in a circle; Álida holding rope while on a boat.
Brenda Soler Figueroa reappears.
Color photo: Sotomayor with windswept hair standing on a hill with students.
Figueroa reappears
Color Photo: large group of marine biologist students in swimwear standing on the beach. Onscreen text: Isla Culebra, Puerto Rico
Color photo: Group of 10 students including Figueroa standing on a dock. Onscreen text: Reserva Natural Cabezas de San Juan, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Color photo: Figueroa standing at booth filled with images and charts of marine life with another woman.
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Color photo: Figueroa teaching in elementary school classroom.
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Color Photo: Figueroa and another female biologist asking off a cloth while at sea.
Color Photo: Brenda Soler Figueroa standing in outside in front of booth "Smithsonian Environmental Research Center" holding toy shark. Onscren Text: ZooFiesta, Smithsonian National Zoo.
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Color Photos, side by side: Alida Ortiz Sotomayor with windswept hair and Brenda Soler Figueroa with hands on hips onscreen text: SERC, Edgewater, MD.
Figueroa reappears.
Collage image with black and white portraits of Brenda Soler Figueroa and Álida Ortiz Sotomayor, Onscreen text: Latinas Talk Latinas, Álida Ortiz Sotomayor The Love for Teaching Natural Sciences. Logos: National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Latino Center. In English and Spanish.
Logos: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, and Smithsonian Latino Center.
Images and Music Courtesy of: Álida Ortiz Sotomayor; Archive Puerto Rico Sea Grant; Brenda María Soler Figueroa; Oliver Bencosme Palmer; Rosa Linda González Marrero; Ruth Dimaria; Stacy Harvard; Mama, Emmit Fenn, YouTube Audio Library; Rumba Sabor, Jimmy Fontanez, YouTube Audio Library.