When I was quite a little girl, I decided I wanted to work on Jacques Cousteau's ship, Calypso. I also imagined myself as the navigator of both ocean-going and space-faring vessels for years. But somewhere amongst our moving internationally, my maths fell apart, and a neither oceanographer nor ship's pilot (sea- or space-faring) was a viable choice by the time I was choosing a college major, so it was political science.
Since early in this century, I've been a qualitative researcher in public health at a university, but another shift is due. I'm trying to get into work around local/regional resilience and readiness in response to the impacts of climate change. I live in a harbor city, and the storm surge map projections show me living on waterfront property, at least temporarily, within the next 10 years. Sobering... I have research background in climate change work (back when people still said "possible" or "hypothetical" in front of "climate change"), and I can get almost anybody to talk to me, and I feel like this is the area where I can be useful. I have a few contacts, and now my health is settling down, it's time to get off my butt and start actively networking, etc.
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Date: 2014-10-08 01:11 am (UTC)Since early in this century, I've been a qualitative researcher in public health at a university, but another shift is due. I'm trying to get into work around local/regional resilience and readiness in response to the impacts of climate change. I live in a harbor city, and the storm surge map projections show me living on waterfront property, at least temporarily, within the next 10 years. Sobering... I have research background in climate change work (back when people still said "possible" or "hypothetical" in front of "climate change"), and I can get almost anybody to talk to me, and I feel like this is the area where I can be useful. I have a few contacts, and now my health is settling down, it's time to get off my butt and start actively networking, etc.