• Question: What inspired you to be a geologist?

    Asked by anon-257410 to Gosia on 18 Jun 2020.
    • Photo: Malgorzata Drwila

      Malgorzata Drwila answered on 18 Jun 2020:

      Hi, thanks for the question. I usually say that the thing that inspired me was the beauty of the planet Earth. As I child I spent lots of hours looking at maps and reading about natural wonders of the world. I love spending time outdoors, close to nature, trying to understand it in a bigger scale, so the choice of field of study was obvious for me.

      In the end I am working as a geophysicist, where I use physics to see inside the Earth’s crust and reconstruct the geology, that we cannot see with bare eyes. This job requires an excellent imagination of geological processes and structures to produce a reliable model of the Earth.

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    Paula commented on :

    Similarly, I was fascinated as a kid by pebbles and volcanoes, but it wasn’t until I was 16 and saw in a textbook of a friend that they were learning about plate tectonics and rocks that I became aware of the subject! What attracted me to study Earth Sciences was that it combines a range of sciences to study our amazing Earth – we need physics, maths, chemistry and biology to understand all the wonderful and complex processes that occur! I ended up also going into the geophysics side of things, using waves to image what is deep within the Earth and what this means for the evolution of our planet. However, as the physics remain the same, I can also look on different scales at different processes, which is the beauty of it!