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My life as a Geologist. All about Aoife. Mt. Sackville past pupil: Graduated in 2003 Member of the special choir Played for the senior A basketball team Cricket secretary Music lover Crafter and I love to bake Snowboarder GIANT NERD!. Why Science?.
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All about Aoife • Mt. Sackville past pupil: Graduated in 2003 • Member of the special choir • Played for the senior A basketball team • Cricket secretary • Music lover • Crafter and I love to bake • Snowboarder • GIANT NERD!
Why Science? • Always had an interest in how things work • Favourite movies as a kid were Back to the Future and Jurassic park • Always wanted a lab coat • Wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and studying science gave me plenty of options What happened next • Went to Trinity College to study Natural Science. • Wanted to study physics or Zoology • Fell in love with Geology instead • Became an exploration geologist in Ireland, 2007 • Moved to Northern Sweden, 2009 • Moved to Burkina Faso, West Africa, 2012
What is Geology? • The study of the rocks that comprise the earth (and other planetary bodies) and the processes that create/change them. • Lots of different disciplines within Geology:
What is a geologist? • “ Geologists are scientists with unnatural obsession with rock. Often too intelligent to do monotonous sciences like biology, chemistry or physics, geologists devote their time to mud worrying, volcano poking, fault finding, bouldering, dust-collecting and high risk colouring in.”- Uncyclopedia definition
Meet my friends Susannah: Palaeontologist Montana USA Karen: Resource geologist Australia Caoimhe: Exploration Geologist Canada Karina: Geoscientist Ireland Jo: Palaeontologist Patagonia/Germany Nicola: Exploration Geologist Canada/The Yukon Rhian: Volcanologist Iceland Victoria: Seismologist based in Leicester Uni Oman/Turkey/Spain/Romania/Iceland Heather: Mine geologist Sweden/Australia Becs: Exploration Geologist Peru/Zambia Eimear: Exploration geologist Mauritania Orla: Exploration Geologist Norway/Ireland
Useful science sites • Geology: www.geoschol.ie, www.iaeg.org, www.gsi.ie, www.tcd.ie/geology • www.tcd.ie/Science, www.ucd.ie/science, www.nuigalway.ie/science, www.nuim.ie, www.ucc.ie, • sciencegallery.com, www.nhm.ac.uk, The zoo, the beach, the park, your own house! • lookslikescience.tumblr.com • www.khanacademy.org • www.ted.com/