• Question: What got you interested in your current job?

    Asked by xray46car to Philip, Maxime, Jake, Ann, Annette, Amy Heather on 8 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Ann Reen

      Ann Reen answered on 8 Nov 2019:

      I liked the idea of getting out & about. I didn’t like being in an office all day! I did environmental science in college so I could hopefully work outdoors.!

    • Photo: Philip Schuler

      Philip Schuler answered on 8 Nov 2019:

      Great question!
      1st a four-days excursion during my BSc degree; 2nd a one month internship; 3rd practical experiences during my MSc, including writing the thesis in a project.

      Much I got hooked by practical experiences and an open mind.

    • Photo: Amy Heather Fitzpatrick

      Amy Heather Fitzpatrick answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I worked on a outbreak of Hepatitis A ( a virus) in frozen berries. I loved doing outbreak investigations. I felt like Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to learn more about why viruses are hard to detect in food so I went to Denmark to learn from an expert and I haven’t looked back at all!

    • Photo: Maxime Savatier

      Maxime Savatier answered on 11 Nov 2019: last edited 11 Nov 2019 11:05 am

      During my studies, i did an internship in a company that tried to find a way to remove an oil contamination from a groundwater around a refinery (factory transforming oil in other products like car fuel, plastic material, packaging etc…). This company studied in detail the impact of this contamination on land and suggested solutions to protect the local environment and population, but did not had the means to estimate the quantity or the impact of that groundwater after it flowed to the sea.
      Years later, i saw my current project, which suggested to use a series of techniques to estimate the flow and effect of groundwater to large sections of coastlines. Interested, I decided to learn these techniques and contribute to this field to help allowing the better consideration of groundwater flow to coastlines, as i had noticed before that it was one of the conditions to help protecting coastlines, and from there, some of our health and well-being.

    • Photo: Jake Cunningham

      Jake Cunningham answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I love to understand things going on around me and similar to Amy I wanted to feel that my work had a positive impact on the world.

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