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- My name is Raiza Quintero.
I'm a geologist.
I'm currently a Ph.D candidate
at Curtin University, studying
impact craters, in Australia.
I've always liked the
natural sciences and geology
in itself, like a lot of other sciences,
it's a bit like storytelling.
And I've always liked storytelling.
And I like science, so it
sort of merges together.
So we study the rocks and
we study the little minerals
and the little, tiny other
pieces of the rocks and we don't
always get all the
information, so we have to sort
of put the pieces of the puzzle together.
And that's very interesting to me.
In geology, I've gotten to
travel all over the world
and see different rocks, and
work with different people.
And I think that's, for me, one
of the most interesting things about all
of my roles that I've had
in geology, is being able
to appreciate how the diversity
in the sciences, and also
in culture and people.
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Geology is a very integrated science.
To do geology, you need
to also understand physics
and chemistry and (laughs)
maths and biology.
So it's all intertwined.
Basically most science skills
that you could think of,
you sort of need to use
daily, in a geology career.
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For the work that I do
and the work that I see
my peers doing, machine
learning is a big deal
in the coming years because we
have so much data to process
and so many questions that we
can't physically do ourselves
because the amount of
time it requires, that
in the field, machine learning
is gonna be very important.
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I think I would tell myself
that, "It's okay to change your mind."
Being open to change is
actually a very powerful skill
and tool to have within
yourself because as
we see, the world just changes
in the blink of an eye.
And I think, "Being
adaptable and being able
"to change and even if it's
a change that you want,
"it's okay to change your mind."
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If I can give any advice to
anyone that's pursuing a career
in geology, in the physical sciences,
in space science, is to put in the work.
The work will always speak for you
and to be adaptable to change.
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