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Emma-JohnsonTranscript
[Music plays and photographs flash through of young students]
[An Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards 2018]
[Images move through of Emma Johnson walking in a reserve with her dog, Emma crossing her arms and smiling at the camera and then the camera zooms in on Emma’s eyes]
Emma Johnson: Hi, I’m Emma Johnson. I’m in Year 10 at Daramalan College and my project is “Bushfires and New Kariouk(?) Communities Under Native and Introduced Grasses”.
[Camera zooms out to show Emma talking to the camera in a garden and then the camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
My project was aiming to look at, how soil communities repopulate burnt soil from bushfires and then whether we could aid in the recovery of areas that have experienced bushfires.
[Image changes to show a rear view of Emma walking in a reserve with her dog]
There were two components to the project.
[Image changes to show Emma talking to the camera and then the image changes to show Emma typing on her laptop]
The first one was, whether the two different types of soil which were under native grasses and introduced grasses, whether they crossed over into the different type of soil when they were put next to each other and the second component was sterilising a mixture of the two soils and seeing which community repopulated the sterilised soil quicker or more dominantly.
[Image changes to Emma talking to the camera in a garden]
It was a very ambitious project from the start. It was definitely something that hasn’t been done before and hasn’t really been tested, so the methodology was very experimental, and I think that’s why it didn’t work the way we hoped it would.
[Images move through of a profile view of Emma’s face, Emma typing on her computer, Emma talking to the camera and a rear view of Emma walking into a lounge room]
It helped me to learn and it can help others to learn how to make the project different so that it can work and that just the nature of science, more often than not.
[Images move through of a facing view of Emma walking into her lounge room, sitting down and reading a book and then Emma sitting in the garden talking to the camera]
I love science and engineering because I love learning about how things work. And I think that it will change dramatically, as technology develops further and that was definitely part of my project.
[Camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
This DNA sequencing is a very new thing and it’s helped many scientists to gain a deeper understanding of small scale communities in all different types of science.
[Image changes to show a blurry image which gradually sharpens of Emma reading on the lounge and then the camera zooms in on the book she is reading and then her face]
I think I do enjoy reading because of the escapism. I love exploring different worlds and imagining what the world could be like.
[Image changes to show Emma talking to the camera in the garden then image changes to show Emma walking in a reserve with her dog]
Also, got three dogs and I love taking them out for walks and hanging out with them.
[Image changes to show an aerial view of Emma walking her dog]
We’ve got a great nature reserve right next to our house so that’s really fun to get out and explore.
[Images move through to show Emma sitting in the garden talking to the camera, Emma in the reserve walking her dog and Emma talking to the camera]
The inspiration from my project came from my interest in environmental science, that’s always something that I’ve really loved. I want to pursue some kind of environmental science in the future.
[Camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
I’m not exactly sure what specifically I want to do but I definitely want it to be part of my future and my career.
[Music plays and an Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation, Science and Engineering Awards, 2018]
[An Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards 2018]
[Images move through of Emma Johnson walking in a reserve with her dog, Emma crossing her arms and smiling at the camera and then the camera zooms in on Emma’s eyes]
Emma Johnson: Hi, I’m Emma Johnson. I’m in Year 10 at Daramalan College and my project is “Bushfires and New Kariouk(?) Communities Under Native and Introduced Grasses”.
[Camera zooms out to show Emma talking to the camera in a garden and then the camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
My project was aiming to look at, how soil communities repopulate burnt soil from bushfires and then whether we could aid in the recovery of areas that have experienced bushfires.
[Image changes to show a rear view of Emma walking in a reserve with her dog]
There were two components to the project.
[Image changes to show Emma talking to the camera and then the image changes to show Emma typing on her laptop]
The first one was, whether the two different types of soil which were under native grasses and introduced grasses, whether they crossed over into the different type of soil when they were put next to each other and the second component was sterilising a mixture of the two soils and seeing which community repopulated the sterilised soil quicker or more dominantly.
[Image changes to Emma talking to the camera in a garden]
It was a very ambitious project from the start. It was definitely something that hasn’t been done before and hasn’t really been tested, so the methodology was very experimental, and I think that’s why it didn’t work the way we hoped it would.
[Images move through of a profile view of Emma’s face, Emma typing on her computer, Emma talking to the camera and a rear view of Emma walking into a lounge room]
It helped me to learn and it can help others to learn how to make the project different so that it can work and that just the nature of science, more often than not.
[Images move through of a facing view of Emma walking into her lounge room, sitting down and reading a book and then Emma sitting in the garden talking to the camera]
I love science and engineering because I love learning about how things work. And I think that it will change dramatically, as technology develops further and that was definitely part of my project.
[Camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
This DNA sequencing is a very new thing and it’s helped many scientists to gain a deeper understanding of small scale communities in all different types of science.
[Image changes to show a blurry image which gradually sharpens of Emma reading on the lounge and then the camera zooms in on the book she is reading and then her face]
I think I do enjoy reading because of the escapism. I love exploring different worlds and imagining what the world could be like.
[Image changes to show Emma talking to the camera in the garden then image changes to show Emma walking in a reserve with her dog]
Also, got three dogs and I love taking them out for walks and hanging out with them.
[Image changes to show an aerial view of Emma walking her dog]
We’ve got a great nature reserve right next to our house so that’s really fun to get out and explore.
[Images move through to show Emma sitting in the garden talking to the camera, Emma in the reserve walking her dog and Emma talking to the camera]
The inspiration from my project came from my interest in environmental science, that’s always something that I’ve really loved. I want to pursue some kind of environmental science in the future.
[Camera zooms in on Emma’s face]
I’m not exactly sure what specifically I want to do but I definitely want it to be part of my future and my career.
[Music plays and an Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation, Science and Engineering Awards, 2018]