Karla Janos

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Eye Color: Smoky gray.

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Hair: Blond, long.

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Tall.

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Slender.

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Magyar and Slavic ancestry.

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After her parents die in a car crash, she is raised by her grandfather, Dr. Viktor Janos, at his Grosse Pointe mansion in Detroit.

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Her grandfather names her after her godfather, Karl Schroeder. She calls him Uncle Karl.

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Takes track while attending the University of Michigan.

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Earns a degree in paleontology with a minor in vertebrate biology at the University of Michigan.

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Maintains the woolly mammoths were wiped out by a natural catastorphy in her graduate thesis.

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While in college she discusses her theory with her grandfather. He agrees that a polar shift could be caused by natural phenomenon or man-made and shows her some equations. Later, while writing her thesis after his death, she incorporates his work into her paper.

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Employed as a paleontologist with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

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Works with Dr. Harold Mumford at Gerstle River Quarry Site seventy miles from the University where carved mammoth tusks are found.

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Writes a paper on the exploitation of the mammoth by early hunters.

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Away on a field trip with an expedition already in progress on Ivory Island, she hopes to find something to bolster her theory about the cause of the woolly mammoth's extinction.

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Meets Kurt Austin when he and Joe Zavala come to her rescue on the caldrera.

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Kurt Austin explains her grandfather was really named Lazlo Kovacs.

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Remembers a bedtime poem her grandfather recited.

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Agrees to meet with Kurt Austin next month in Washington for cocktails, dinner and whatever.

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