• Question: How can your work benefit mankind ??? :P

    Asked by gracerossiter to Andrew, Aggelos, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 13 Nov 2012. This question was also asked by stephiieariana, machinegunyoshi.
    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      A recent project of mine was trying to discover new ways to prevent waste in the fishing industry by avoiding areas with small fish or species of fish that cant be sold at market. Another project is trying to find ways to help keep vulture populations in Africa and Asia large enough so that they dont do extinct. Vultures are really important in these ecosystems, and without them, wild dogs can take over and spread rabies disease to humans. Also, its not nice to see things go extinct, especially when humans caused it. I think there are a lot of useful ways to use our knowledge about animal behaviour and how ecosystems work to help us not make a mess of the world, and improve how we get food from our surroundings.

      – andrew

    • Photo: Aggelos Zacharopoulos

      Aggelos Zacharopoulos answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      @gracerossiter,
      I certainly hope so. Every bit of research creates and unique piece of knowledge which benefits the mankind directly or indirectly. Our civilisation is heavily depended on energy supply. My research in solar energy will hopefully directly benefit the mankind by devising ways to produce plentiful and pollution free energy.

    • Photo: Naomi Elster

      Naomi Elster answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      There are very few research projects that do not benefit mankind. The project I’m doing at the minute is finding ways to stop cancer becoming resistant to drugs so that we can develop better, more long-lasting treatments for cancer, and maybe other diseases as well.

    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      It might sound crazy, but my research using flamingos will benefit mankind! Right now, my research is trying to link environmental health to human health. Because polluted environments can be dangerous for people – they can cause diseases, which isn’t good! The flamingos are indicators – this means if I take a sample from them, it tells me a lot about their environment – the water where they’re living.

      Polluted water is an especially big problem in places like Kenya, where people don’t have access to clean drinking water. In the world, its estimated that over 750 MILLION people dont have clean drinking water.

      With my research, I’m trying to find ways of predicting whether or not water will cause diseases in humans. This will help us figure out what we need to do to make water clean, and hopefully…will make sure that less people are dying of diseases from polluted water!

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