• Question: Has your job inabled you to travel around the world?

    Asked by 246grak22 to Daniel, Hannah, Maggie, Ry, Scott on 10 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Hannah Middleton

      Hannah Middleton answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      Yes! I’ve been really lucky and been able to travel to conferences and workshops in Canada, Australia, USA and Hawaii!

    • Photo: Maggie Lieu

      Maggie Lieu answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      Yep, some of the coolest places I’ve been to include:

      Chile On top of a mountain observing on a gigantic telescope

      New York Working with some really smart Mathematicians

      South Africa Meeting some other cool scientists, but in the morning before work I would go on Safari. I got to feed elephants and even pet a cheetah!

      Croatia I went to an island that was also a national park and there were so many giant tortoises everywhere!

    • Photo: Ry Cutter

      Ry Cutter answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      yes, it’s one of the best parts of the job!
      La Palma: It’s where our telescope is, so I’m on that sunny mountain a lot
      Chille: We have some more telescopes over there
      Arizona: To visit the Kitt peak observatory
      France: I did some crystallography work
      Svalbard: To study the Northern Lights!
      I’ve also traveled all over the UK!
      I’m going to Australia (Monash) soon to work with some people there.
      The best part is that I’m paid to go to all these places!
      Ryan

    • Photo: Scott Melville

      Scott Melville answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      Yup! I’ve been to the US and Canada a whole bunch, and also the nearby European countries. The most exciting places for me have been China and Japan – those were super interesting places to visit. I even lived in Japan for a few months one summer – the food was amazing, I could learn some of the language, and I made lots of great friends 🙂

    • Photo: Daniel Williams

      Daniel Williams answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Yes. I’d never left Europe before I started my PhD, and since then I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the USA. I spent most of this year working in Louisiana, which is in the South of the USA, where I was working at one of our gravitational wave observatories.

      Working in science also means I now have friends all around the world who I can go and visit. One of the most memorable things I did this year was to visit a friend in Oslo, in Norway, in the middle of the winter. I probably wouldn’t have gone to Norway at that time of the year otherwise, but it was a really cool (literally and figuratively) experience!

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