• Question: If you you could have your dream marine based job, what would it be? and how would it contribute to science knowledge?

    Asked by skullytom to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I have my dream marine job! I want to do research that helps us to look after our planet properlly in the future.

    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      Like Clare – I’m already have my dream job. Ok – that’s not ENTIRELY true. If I could do my current job while simultaneously living on a really cozy houseboat on the river – that would be great – but that’s more about my dream life than my dream job. Why aren’t I living in a houseboat – I’ll have to check into that… Thanks for inspiring me! As to knowledge – very little (read practically nothing!) is known about cephalopod venoms – this is a chance to really open up that field of research. Super cool!

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      If I could do pretty much what I’m doing now, but with some more fieldwork and a bit more computer simulation work, that would be perfect! Of course, to be able to do all of this, I’d have to find a way if making the days quite a lot longer first!

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Like others my job is pretty close to my dream, I would want not to worry about loosing it every 3 years though and I would probably prefer to live somewhere a bit more sunny. As to contributing to science, I really like the way you put it yourself, every research CONTRIBURES to the bigger picture, whatever it is.

    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I think my dream job would be carrying out research into the reasons why some Coral Reefs are able to resist and recover from episodes of bleaching whilst some aren’t. If a common characteristic could be determined then that would help conservationists immeasurably in working out which reefs would benefit most from being made marine reserves!

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