Q Careers
Ten young New Zealand scientists show how their passion and commitment for their work will contribute to New Zealand's sustainable future.
Q Careers takes you to the depths of the ocean seabed, to the lab, and to the bitter cold Antarctic. We visit crime investigations, active volcanoes, and marae.
Find out how science is part of everyday life and how you too could have a career as a scientist and help to shape the future.
Free to educational institutions.
Agricultural Science
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DR JAMIE ATARIA & CRAIG PAULING – Manaaki Whenua (Landcare Research)
Jamie Ataria is a toxicologist. He specialises in toxins or poisons in the environment and works out how to identify them and also how to prevent them entering environmental areas, in particular around marae.
Craig is a research assistant who specialises in waste management. He has worked with Ngai Tahu for several years and is now researching a Marae-based waste management model for the future. Both Jamie and Craig integrate Maori traditional knowledge with scientific research and methodologies.
IAN KNOWLES – Farm Systems, Crop & Food Research
Ian studies grass! His parents moved to the country when he was a boy and he loved the farming life. His research helps to improve farming systems and includes software development as well as lab based research to understand what animals eat and how to improve grasses. He hopes to use his knowledge when he buys his own farm in the future.
DR SARAH DODD – Mycologist
Dr Sarah Dodd is a specialist in mushrooms (mycology). She is working with forest research where they are planting pine forests while planting gourmet mushrooms at the base of the trees – double planting! Her research will contribute to new markets for mushrooms bringing new opportunities for New Zealand export markets.
TAMSIN POINTON – Geneticist
Tamsin is researching the effects of the NZ grass grub. She thought she wanted to be a doctor at first, but when she got to Otago she found a huge choice of subjects and decided she wanted to be a genetic scientist instead.
Jamie Ataria is a toxicologist. He specialises in toxins or poisons in the environment and works out how to identify them and also how to prevent them entering environmental areas, in particular around marae.
Craig is a research assistant who specialises in waste management. He has worked with Ngai Tahu for several years and is now researching a Marae-based waste management model for the future. Both Jamie and Craig integrate Maori traditional knowledge with scientific research and methodologies.
IAN KNOWLES – Farm Systems, Crop & Food Research
Ian studies grass! His parents moved to the country when he was a boy and he loved the farming life. His research helps to improve farming systems and includes software development as well as lab based research to understand what animals eat and how to improve grasses. He hopes to use his knowledge when he buys his own farm in the future.
DR SARAH DODD – Mycologist
Dr Sarah Dodd is a specialist in mushrooms (mycology). She is working with forest research where they are planting pine forests while planting gourmet mushrooms at the base of the trees – double planting! Her research will contribute to new markets for mushrooms bringing new opportunities for New Zealand export markets.
TAMSIN POINTON – Geneticist
Tamsin is researching the effects of the NZ grass grub. She thought she wanted to be a doctor at first, but when she got to Otago she found a huge choice of subjects and decided she wanted to be a genetic scientist instead.
