• Question: Why is the Artic/ Antartic water so facinating to you?

    Asked by kcsully98 to Nuala, Davie, Gemma, James P, James V on 26 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by isshcorinne, lena.
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      Nuala Carson answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Hey Kcsully98,

      To be honest i don’t really know. When i was studying at university i just naturally became interested in it. I loved going to the zoo to see the penguins and I suppose I then became curious about where they lived.

      Timing was probably a big part of it too. When I was getting toward the end of my undergraduate news about how sea ice was thinning and melting was all over the media so I choose to look at sea ice for my final year project. It just progressed from there really1

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      James Pope answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hi kcsully98, isshcorinne & lena,

      I don’t work on the Arctic or Antractic specifically (though the way it affects climate in warmer worlds is really important for my work).

      Nuala does raise a really good point though, if you do a science career you may start down one path and an opportunity comes up and your career suddenly changes in a whole new direction giving you new opportunities you would never have expected you could take!

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