Hi, students! It's me, Sara, and this week I spoke with one of the scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution to learn more about her work. Her name is Ally, and she’s a part of the team on the ship that makes very detailed notes about the different layers of rocks and their colors in every core sample we pull up from the ocean floor. I'm going to ask her all about it!
Hi Ally! Where are you from?
Hello! I grew up just outside Helena, Montana! Now I’m a PhD student at Lamont Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City.
How did you decide to start studying geology?
I think it’s always been inside me, a little bit. I’ve always liked science and I tried a lot of other types of science—I liked Chemistry a lot, I like Physics—but it was always missing something for me. When I finally found geology, earth science, it made so much more sense to me because it’s something that we live in all the time. And I grew up living outside, basically. I lived in the middle of the woods and when I wasn’t in school, I was outside. My parents would just tell me to come back when it got dark out.
