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Mika McKinnon - Disaster Researcher
[Mike] I research landslides on asteroids. A day in the life for me can be anything from making a landslide in a sandbox all the way through to working on set helping writers with science in movies. When we send robots to go explore asteroids and comets, we want to make sure they’re safe where they land. Part of that is looking at how do rocks fall down?
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Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo - Astrophysicist
One of the really intriguing aspects, of black holes, is that they’re such powerful objects, so radical, that could quickly and easily destroy entire galaxies. My expertise is the biggest black holes in the universe, who are typically the size of an entire solar system. They truly are titans among giants. What I love about science, is that all of our discoveries are unpredictable. In high school, I was working on a project on teleportation, I thought it was fiction, but no, it’s pure physics.
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Jeanna Valleriani - Cannabis Researcher
[Jenna] The most exciting thing for me is having the opportunity to watch something that has been always illegal in our lifetime move to like this legal and regulated framework in Canada. (upbeat music) I focus on cannabis policy, education, and what access looks like for medical reasons. Cannabis is really just a plant, and it’s a plant that can be used a variety of different ways.
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Gwen Healey Akearok - Epidemiologist
[Gwen] Lorsque nous arrivons à comprendre ce qui nous fait nous sentir bien, nous pouvons mieux prendre soin les uns des autres. (mellow music) Le travail que je fais vise à comprendre la santé et le bien-être dans nos communautés de l’Arctique. Nous examinons donc la santé sexuelle, l’intersection des changements climatiques et de notre santé, et les maladies infectieuses, puis nous examinons également les facteurs de protection positifs, comme le fait d’avoir des relations positives, le soutien familial et beaucoup d’amour autour de nous.
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Erin Bertrand - Microbial Oceanographer
My job is never boring. One day I’ll be working with my research students in the laboratory and the next day, I’ll be heading out on an oceanographic research expedition. When I was a kid, I spent a ton of time outside. I always wanted to be by the ocean and meant to experience that as much as I could. The curiosity that sort of overwhelmed me when I would be by the sea, that really led me into the career that I am in today.
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Emily’s Bamforth - Paleontologist
[Emily] Lorsque j’étais enfant, j’étais vraiment, vraiment à fond dans les dinosaures. À l’époque, je ne savais pas vraiment que je pouvais devenir paléontologue et être capable de faire ça pour vivre, d’aller trouver des choses anciennes dans les roches 6 00:00:13,010 –> 00:00:14,380 et être capable de leur donner de nouveaux noms, de les décrire et de parler au monde des fossiles. 8 00:00:18,099 –> 00:00:20,682 (upbeat music) Ce que j’aime vraiment le plus dans mon travail, c’est l’excitation de la découverte.
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Dr. Imogen Coe - Chemistry & Biology Prof
[Imogen] Every baby is born curious. Every baby starts out life trying to figure out how the world works around them. Every baby is a natural scientist. (upbeat music) As a professor, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do the research. I get to study how cells work and I also get to teach the next generation. (upbeat music) it’s amazing to think that one cell can be one organism or trillions of cells can got to make up a human being.
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Dominque Lacelles - Metallurgist
I have a passion for rocks (minerals) since I was ten years old. I started out playing curling, then now, I crush them [laughs]. [Music playing] As a metallurgist, I separate the valuable minerals from the rest of the mining rock. Every mineral is different. Therefore, it’s a matter of finding the best way to extract it from the mine, and then we do this by looking at the properties of the rock.
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Dawn Bazely - Ecologist
(bright music) - [Dawn] I always liked nature, and I grew up in London, England looking at daises and dandelions. How do you get to be an ecologist when you grow up in a big city? Well, when I was 19 I was invited to go up to Hudson Bay. In my first field season I was like running around the arctic and I was having a gun because I had to be aware of polar bears.
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Anne Innis Dagg - Zoologist
Quand j’ai vu une girafe pour la première fois au zoo, j’avais trois ans et j’adorais les longs cous et les longues jambes. À 23 ans, je suis allée dans un endroit en Afrique où j’ai pu étudier les girafes et j’ai passé un an à les observer et à noter ce qu’elles faisaient. À l’époque, les gens ne s’attendaient pas à ce que les femmes fassent ce genre de travail, alors j’ai dû faire comme si j’étais un homme.