Catalina blog

 Hi! Personally, I would like to take a trip to the exact moment where and how life began on the planet. Since I was a child, I was very interested in science, but I was always captivated by how the universe had formed and how life on Earth began. Currently, I still don't know (I don't think I will ever know), however, I would feel very excited if I could travel back in time and see the first animals and plants and how they evolved. I would like to be able to travel and see everything in a movie, so I wouldn't have to stay in one place, I could go forward or backward. Honestly, I wish I could take a time machine right now and go traveling through time all my life. Company for a trip like this? I don't know, maybe I would like to see it in silence and solitude and be a spectator of history itself until we reach the present day. On this entire trip I would like to meet Lucy, the first Australopithecus female on record. She was a key piece in reaffirming evolution and that...

Hi! My dream job is working in a fossil wood laboratory! I´m currently in my fourth year of Forestry Engineering at the University of Chile. It all started with the opportunity of professor assistant Magda Orrell at university. She is a wood anatomist and taught me a lot about anatomy. Then, I met Professor Teresa Torres, a Chilean paleobotanist recognized worldwide for her work with fossil woods in Chile. (Fossil wood of the Antarctica)  (Antomist and geologists in the Antarctica collecting fossil samples)  As I already knew that I liked this topic very much, I asked Professor Teresa if I could do my memory project with her and she happily answered yes. For the reason, my dream job is to follow this path little explored in the country and be part of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, which is a great promoter of fossil research. I know it's far from Santiago and my family, but it would be a dream come true. I would love to have my own laboratory with my own samples and...