Student profiles
Studying earth sciences at ANU is a lifetime experience. Find out why directly from our students.
Steven Petkovski is the Museum Curator for the National Mineral and Fossil Collection at Geoscience Australia. He graduated from ANU with a Bachelor of Science and is now studying a Master of Science in Earth Sciences.
What’s the first question an aspiring geologist asks their ‘future self’? Their favourite rock, of course. ANU student Seb Bland sits down with Professor Jochen Brocks from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences to find out what his life will be like thirty years from now.
Graduating with a Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced), Hangyu Meng came to ANU to pursue his curiosity about how the world works and to develop his research skills with the hope of continuing his studies with a PhD.
PhD student Rachel Kirby has been knitting for about 10 years, but her latest creation is out of this world.
“It was very stressful,” Hana says. “I was worried about so many things. It was the very first time I lived all alone, and it was a totally different country."
“This is wild,” says Tharika Liyanage talking about cheilanthanes. And the thing is, you can’t help but agree – even if you don’t know what cheilanthanes are.
Meet PhD candidate Jess Hargreaves. Jess wanted to be a mathematician, so how did she end up a palaeoclimatologist? Because of a clam.
‘Studying Earth sciences takes you to places that not many people can reach or see because the rocks I study are in some very remote areas.I've been to so many remote places.... it gives you a very different perspective on life"
The goal of my research is to better understand how the changes in the oceans oxygen levels will affect the lives and deaths of its inhabitants.