• Question: If you could go on any science expedition where would you go and why?

    Asked by anon-201907 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I think it would be really cool to be involved in a project at the North or South Pole as so few people get to experience being on the very top or bottom of the world. There a photo series from Michal Krzysztofowicz where he took a photo every day for the year he was based at the Halley research Station in Antarctica and some of the photos are really amazing:

      http://beautifulocean.org/albums/project-antarctica-366/

    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I’d like to go to Fukushima and Three Mile Island and maybe the Idaho research reactor, plus anywhere that’s had some interesting nuclear activity like the natural reactor in Africa. A trip to the newly built waste storage facility underground in Scandinavia would be great too

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      To Mars! There’d be so much interesting science to do as the first humans on another planet

    • Photo: Emily Lewis

      Emily Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      To Mars as well! I don’t know much about space science, I would just be there for the ride and the views.

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Antarctica — there are particle physics experiments there using balloons in the polar vortex winds and photon detectors in the ice sheet, to study ultra-high energy neutrinos. I like the idea of being that isolated, and it’s one of only two continents left to visit (and I have plans for Africa). My partner and kids might not be so keen! Might be possible to do some climbing and kite-sledding while there, although my understanding is that the mountainous bit are about 1000 km away…

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