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My life as a Geologist
• 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!
All about Aoife
What happened next
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
• 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:
How geology relates to you
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
Face of Geology today
Meet my friends
Jo: PalaeontologistPatagonia/Germany
Caoimhe: Exploration GeologistCanada
Karina:Geoscientist Ireland
Rhian: VolcanologistIceland
Susannah: PalaeontologistMontana USA
Victoria: Seismologist based in Leicester UniOman/Turkey/Spain/Romania/Iceland
Orla: Exploration GeologistNorway/Ireland
Becs:Exploration GeologistPeru/Zambia
Eimear:Exploration geologistMauritania
Heather:Mine geologistSweden/Australia
Karen:Resource geologistAustralia
Nicola:Exploration GeologistCanada/The Yukon
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/
Thanks for listening. Any questions?