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I'm Gail Strob and you're listening to She Explores.

Hello, welcome to She Explores the Women in Water series. Easy first question for you. If you could just share your name, your pronouns, and anything else that you'd like to

share by yourself.

Thanks for having me. My name is Mugda Flores. I use she or her pronouns. I am a marine biologist turned

like science and policy communicator. That's mainly like my job now I do a lot of

communications work but I'm always excited to go outside spend time in water

whether it's fresh water or salt water and yeah I like to also explore the outdoors.

I have three dogs so I love going hiking with them.

We're just going to like neighborhood parks and being outside.

Three dogs.

I actually didn't know that.

How is that?

How is bringing them along with you

on your outdoor adventures? I don't always bring all three of them at once. It's either two at a time or one and I just rotate through it.

Nice. What kind of dogs are they they're German Shepherd mixes so

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