• Question: Where are you hoping your line of work will take you (geographically)????

    Asked by eravfpea1208 to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: James Verdon

      James Verdon answered on 26 Jun 2012:


      Hi eravfpea,

      In the next year or so I hope to have been to Ethiopia to monitor some of the volcanoes there. I’m also going to Iceland, but that’s mainly as a holiday (though I might sneak a peak at a volcano or two while I’m there), although I’d love to go back for work. I’d love to visit Mount Erebus, which is a really spectacular volcano in the Antarctic, but I doubt I ever will get to. I’d also love to visit Hawaii, which is another cool volcano. For longer term work, there are some really good universities in California, like Caltech and Stanford, that I’d love to work at if I get the chance.

    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 26 Jun 2012:


      Hi eravfpea1208

      I hope to get to go to a conference next February called PAGES (PAst Global changES) which is in Goa in India, and I also hope to go back to America, I’d like to go to Boulder, Colorado and work with a modelling group there who work for the US National Center for Atmoshperic Research as they have some really interesting people working on their model and I’d like to learn from them how to use it to do similar work to mine now.

      @JamesV Iceland is amazing, it’s the reason I decided to study Geology at University and so it’s the reason I am were I am now! A beautiful country, I’m so jealous, wish I was going back there soon!

    • Photo: Nuala Carson

      Nuala Carson answered on 26 Jun 2012:


      Hey eravfpea1208,

      One of the great things about science is how global it is. You have brilliant opportunities to travel to work with work. I think I would like to work in America for a while as they have some really great oceanography centers. Hawaii and Australia are also on the cards but who know!

    • Photo: Davie Galloway

      Davie Galloway answered on 3 Jul 2012:


      hi eravpea1208,

      Think i may be a little older than the other earth zone scientists, so not really hoping or planning to work away again or for the foreseable future anyways. I haven’t worked away since my son was born 8 years ago but prior to that i worked in Montserrat in the Caribbean, in Vietnam, Chile, Cameroon, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the Faroe Islands and enjoyed every minute. I think it’s time for the ‘younger’ scientists, with their whole careers/lifes in front of them to do all the working away now, I’m happy in Scotland with my family. 🙂

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