• Question: What inspired you to do your job?

    Asked by itch to Allan, Angela, Diva, Harriet, Nathan on 26 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by nicolella, zero, ashishhans10, xtarax, zmzmzm, hannahroberts, scottkingsley, morgan8899.
    • Photo: Allan Pang

      Allan Pang answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I am personally driven by curiosity and result.

      What makes me want to do my research project (aka my job) is knowing that I could discover something new and get an awesome result that will hopefully contribute to the growing scientific knowledge.

      Science is a big area, and you are only limited by your imagination. And therefore, I get to do exciting experiments as well as get to think of new ways how to answer some scientific questions.

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      Angela Lamb answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      As a kid I had a map of the world on my bedroom wall and was fascinated about travel and other countries, I wanted to learn more about the world and that led me first into climate change research and now into archaeology.

    • Photo: Diva Amon

      Diva Amon answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Growing up on a Caribbean island definitely encouraged my love of nature. I was always around the ocean either sailing, surfing, snorkelling or hanging out on the beach with friends. I remember the first time I saw a manta ray – I was four years old and it had washed up dead on the beach. It was just the most intriguing and strange thing I had ever seen. I wanted to see more and know more about it. Learning to scuba dive allowed me to begin to explore this incredible world that is usually inhospitable to humans. After that I was hooked!

      It was only at university that I got interested in the deep sea. More is known about the surface of the moon than the deep sea. This is mind-boggling considering that the deep sea is actually the largest ecosystem on the planet. This element of the unknown means that us, scientists are kind of like ‘explorers’, seeing new things all the time. You never know what you will find down in the cold dark depths of the ocean and that is what is so exciting!
      I’ve always wanted a job that has to do with nature and the environment. I want my work to have a positive impact on the way we view and deal with our planet. Being a marine biologist, specifically a deep-sea biologist, meant that I got to explore, learn and hopefully, in the future, help!

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      Nathan Langford answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      I wanted to become a scientist, because I always wanted to ask why things worked the way they did. As a scientist, we get to ask those questions every day. And I wanted to do physics, because that is the subject that I found most challenging and most exciting. Doing physics, I could start from very basic ideas and understand such beautiful and complex things.

      But maybe the thing that really inspired me to do science was that I had a really great science teacher at high school and then I had a really amazing physics lecturer for my first ever physics subject at university. This led me to ask if I could work in the physics department over the holidays at the end of my first year at uni and I got to start working with lasers and it all built up from there.

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