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What's your Science? - Savaria Parrish

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Date published: 19 Sep 2025 Video views: 56
Fourth-year geosciences major Savaria Parrish talks about her curiosity for planetary formation and the mysteries of distant atmospheres.
I think it's kind of funny because I tell my family all the time what I do, and still to this day, they're like, she's going to go to space. And I'm like, I'm not an astronaut. I'm curious about worlds beyond our own. As a child looking up at the night sky, I think I used it as an escape. And then when I found out that you can do more with what I'm looking at at night, you can look at planets and kind of figure out where they came from. How were they born? How did they evolve? We have planets in our solar system that I think are really cool. There's Venus with thick atmospheric clouds, and then you have Earth, and we have an atmosphere that we're able to live and breathe on, and so I think applying that same knowledge to other worlds beyond our solar system would be really interesting. I would love to work as a scientist or a staff scientist at a museum, hopefully the American Museum of Natural History one day, because I love New York City. and I want to work at a museum mainly because there's the science part of it. You get access to world-renowned research, you have like funding to do that research, but you also have the public outreach aspect of it that I really like. With public outreach I feel like I wouldn't be where I am today without it and I kind of want to spread the word and get more kids involved in knowing that there are more things to space besides being an astronaut.

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