will your job benefit our future?

Question: will your job benefit our future?
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Asked by anon-207876 to William, Silvia, Scott, Oliver, Natalie, Michelle, Lowri on 4 Mar 2019.
- Lowri Evans answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  Yes! We are currently running out of resources (e.g. fish), and with the human population still expected to reach 9.8 million people by 2050, it is more important than ever to manage our use of resources. Fish and shellfish provide an important protein source for many humans across the globe. In addition to running out of resources, some types of fishing gear can be destructive to marine habitats. Therefore, part of my job is to develop a way for fisheries managers to calculate the health status of marine habitats and decide whether a fishing activity can continue to happen there or if the activity should decrease etc. This approach will be global, and therefore will benefit countless lives of marine creatures and humans alike.
- Scott Graham answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  As clean safe water is vital for life, I would say my role in testing water and making sure it is free from harmful bacteria would benefit our future for our health. Not only do I make sure water is safe to drink from taps or swim in at swimming pools. I also test at various points of wastewater treatment plants and give feedback to how safe it is. this is useful as once processed treated water is put back into the environment by rivers oceans lakes, making sure this is safe will benefit our environment and marine ecosystem which in return will be beneficial to our future in the long run
- Silvia Imberti answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  In short yes, *good* science always does, in the sense that it advances out knowledge of what underlying structure (where the atoms are) and dynamics (how the atom moves) underpins the properties of materials. This in turn will help us building new materials and exploiting the properties of the ones we have already.
  
  See also this long answer here: /waterm19-zone/question/do-you-think-your-job-is-beneficial-to-society-and-the-world/
  
  *good* science to me is science that advances our knowledge and understanding of nature
- Natalie Lamb answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  Yes! I think my research will benefit our future.
  
  In the future, climate change means there will be less drinking water for us to drink and what is still there will likely be more dirty and need more treatment. I’m trying to look into the best ways of treating water that removes the most organisms and uses fewer chemicals because some of the chemicals we use today have problems.
  
  For example, chlorine is used in swimming pools because it kills any germs on your body when you get in the pool (or if you go to the toilet in the pool!). That same chlorine but in very very low amounts is used in tap water to kill germs in drinking water too. But chlorine is only made in one place in the UK so it has to get transported by big tankers. When it travels like this, a very big amount of chlorine in one place, if there is a car accident, the tanker could explode. I’m looking into safer ways of getting rid of germs from drinking water, like UV light bulbs.
- Michelle Valkanas answered on 6 Mar 2019:
  
  By finding better ways to clean our water, I hope that in the future we not only have cleaner streams for fish and wildlife but safer drinking water.
- Oliver Andrews answered on 8 Mar 2019:
  
  I hope so! My work is to do with understanding how climate change might influence ocean oceans in the future (using computers) — and we try to make sure that our work is read by governments. We do this by writing special reports for people in charge of environmental laws, which explain what might happen if we do not change our behaviour and pollution.

Question: will your job benefit our future?

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