• Question: How could your job change the way we see science? how?

    Asked by coconut to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      If, as I hope I will, I discover new drugs in the venoms – it would help people see the value of animals that they may otherwise only think of as food, (or don’t ever think of at all!)

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      My job as a scientist is about understanding how things work. For this I spend hours and hours collecting samples, doing experiments, analysing data, publishing results. But part of my job is also to make this knowledge available to the general public and students like you. So I spend some of my times answering your questions here for example. So hopefully by the end of this event you will know more about krill, how important they are ecologically and that they even have a circadian clock! 🙂

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I think it’s pretty cool that something as seemingly unimportant as the spray whipped off the surface of the ocean can affect much bigger things – such as hurricanes and even the climate as a whole. I’d hope to make more people appreciate that even the small things – which can be easily ignored – can actually make a really big difference.

    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hey Coconut. I hope that doing this will go some way to changing the way you and all the other people see Science. Have you enjoyed it so far?

      I’d like people to realise that the Sea and the things that live in it aren’t just something that’s there at the edges of land. From the shoreline to the deepest darkest bits of the Oceans, there is so much interesting stuff, lot’s of it that we’re yet to even discover! It’s so important to us as a people in so many ways, from providing food to keeping places like the UK relatively warm (We’d would be as cold as Norway without the Sea!)

      If the work I do can change the way people see Science and get them to look at it as something really interesting and something that they can understand quite easily, if described in the right way, then I’d be very happy!

      Has it changed the way you look at Science?

Comments