• Question: Do you get to travel in your job? Where do you go ? :)

    Asked by emiiwilde to Paula, Nathalie, Laura, Katy, Hermine on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katy Mee

      Katy Mee answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Yeah i get to travel around a little bit – I’m based in Nottingham but we have offices in Edinburgh and Cardiff so I go to both of those places occassionally. I also get to go to conferences, usually around the UK, but sometimes abroad -I got to go to one in San Francisco a few years ago, which was amazing! I’m hoping to get some more fieldwork over the next few years – i’ve done fieldwork in Spain, Iceland and Chile so far! I’m hoping to go back to Iceland sometime and possibly to Patagonia (southern South America) to study more volcanoes.

    • Photo: Paula Salgado

      Paula Salgado answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi Emiiwilde

      Yes I do get to travel. As I said in my profile, I need very, very powerful X-rays to analise my protein crystals, so I have to go to special X-ray generators called synchrotrons. The closest one is near Oxford and is called Diamond Light Source. It was on BBC Breakfast last week! 😉 You can have a look here:
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10291008.stm

      There’s also a synchrotron near Paris that I travel to – I was there twice in May ;-). Another one is in the south of France, near Grenoble, surrounded by the Alps. Finally, I also go one in Switzerland, near Zurich.

      Apart from these trips I do to collect data, I also get to go to conferences and meetings with collaborators. Last year I went to Istanbul in Turkey, I’ve been to Germany a few times. I even spent a month in Helsinki in Finland when I was a PhD student to work with other scientists that we collaborated with. I’ve also been to a few places in the UK, like York, Leeds, Manchester.

      So. we are busy travelling bees 😉

    • Photo: Nathalie Pettorelli

      Nathalie Pettorelli answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi there,

      A lot! Between conferences, meetings with colleagues and field work (when I’m lucky), I do see quite a lot of places on a annual basis. I have strong connections with Norway, Tanzania and France – so that’s where I go relatively regularly. And then there are the conferences – last year I went to Argentina, I’m due in Niger early next year and I might be able to go to New Zealand next year! So lots of travelling – which is GREAT! 🙂

    • Photo: Laura Dixon

      Laura Dixon answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Yes, i’ve been lucky in that I’ve be able to travel to a number of conferences of the years. Some of the best were Finland,Japan and Mexico. I’ve been to America a few times (when I lived in Canada – its much closer!) and recently I’ve been going to conferences in the UK – Birmingham, London, Edinburgh.

    • Photo: Hermine Schnetler

      Hermine Schnetler answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Yes I get the opportunity to travel in my work. It depends very much on the project I am working on. The last two years I mainly travelled to France and Germany. Before that I went to the USA a lot. Now it seems like I have to travel to Australia. I also get the opportunity to visit some of the telescopes. We have telescopes in Chile, Las Palmas and Hawaii. I have not been to the ones in Hawaii yet.

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