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[Image appears of Tara Martin on the ship’s deck leaning on the rail and looking out and then the image changes to show a profile view of Tara looking over the ocean and text appears: Tara Martin, Marine Geophysicist]
Tara Martin: I’m Tara Martin and I’m a Marine Geophysicist.
[Image changes to show the RV Investigator at dock and then the image changes to show a facing view of the bridge of the ship]
Australia has the third largest ocean zone in the world and we’ve only mapped about 25% of it. We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the sea floor.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
So, my role involves every time we go to sea, we try to map a little bit more.
[Image changes to show Tara looking out over the sea from the deck of the ship and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
When I was in high school I was going to be an interior designer.
[Image changes to show Tara walking on the deck of the ship]
Science, it was something you did in school. It didn’t have real world applications so far as I knew. So, when I left high school I went straight into a chef’s apprenticeship.
[Image changes to show Tara leaning over the side of the ship with her hair blowing in the wind and then image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
It wasn’t until I was much older that I started to think about potential changes of career and realised that science was the direction I wanted to take.
[Images move through of the operations room, colleagues in conversation around computer screens, Tara nodding, and Tara talking to the camera]
Jumping straight into a geophysics degree without having done maths and physics in high school was a bit of a learning curve. I didn’t actually know what physics was. So, I worked hard, I worked really, really, hard.
[Image changes to show a group of penguins standing on an ice shelf and then the image changes to show Tara rugged up and smiling at the camera against an snow covered landscape]
My first voyage to sea was on a multinational expedition that went down to Antarctica.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
That was a really fascinating experience, a group of people pulling together for a common cause, and amazing scenery as well.
[Image changes to show an icy landscape]
I just fell in love.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
Life at sea hasn’t always been as female friendly as it is now.
[Images move through of a series of winches on the ship, a piece of marine science equipment attached to the winch, colleagues on the deck, and Tara talking to the camera]
Over the course of a 20 year career I’ve certainly experienced moments where I’ve not been allowed to do the work that my male colleagues were on the back deck doing because I was a woman.
[Image changes to show the Investigator moving through the ocean]
Things have changed. Working at sea isn’t for everyone. It has its downsides.
[Image changes to show Tara working on a computer and then the camera zooms out to show Tara and her colleague looking at data on the computer screens]
We work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for up to 60 days at a time. Sometimes you’re sleep deprived. Sometimes the weather’s heavy. It can be physically uncomfortable.
[Images move through of a towed camera being deployed, a small fish swimming, a fish being held in the hands, a red coloured fish on a bench, and a large piece of bone being held by a female]
And then you get the exciting days as well where we put towed cameras down and we see all kinds of amazing footage, or a new species of fish gets identified or we make some exciting new science discovery and those are the moments you go to sea for.
[Image changes to show a group of colleagues talking and laughing and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
A typical day on board for me usually involves waking up and bumbling myself straight into the gym before I’m awake enough to realise what I’ve done.
[Image changes to show Tara running on a treadmill and then the image changes to show Tara walking into the operations room]
I like to get a bit of a run in, go and have breakfast, and then go down and start the day in the operations room.
[Image shows Tara sitting down at a desk in the operations room and describing the diagram on the computer screen]
This is colour coded according to depth. So, reddish yellow and blue is deep. And what we’re looking at here is a little chunk of the Continental Shelf of Antarctica. We’re seeing a lot of information about the geology of the area, or what we call the geomorphology of the area and how that’s been formed.
[Image changes to show a facing view of Tara sitting at the desk and then the image changes to show various sea floor maps on the computer screen she is working on]
In the operations room we’re monitoring up to seven different instruments. We’re not just mapping the sea floor.
[Image changes to show three colleagues in conversation and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera while sitting at a desk]
These instruments look all the way from the top of the sea water to the bottom, the sea floor, under the sea floor, and they’re looking at the gravity and magnetic fields for the area as well.
Every single one of these screens tells us something about the environment around us.
[Image changes to show a view of the sun coming from behind a cloud from the deck of the ship and then the image changes to show Tara and a colleague on the deck of the ship looking out]
I get immense satisfaction in my job. It’s not a normal job. I like that. Our jobs link us back to the explorers. We so often see things that no one’s seen before.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
We’re working with new types of science that no one’s created before. So, it’s great, we are at the cutting edge.
[Music plays and text appears: Marine National Facility]
[Credits appear: Produced by Ella Kennedy, Camera and Editing by Lara Van Raay, Additional Photos, Tara Martin and Sheri Newman, With thanks to, Tara Martin, The MNF Ship Operations Group, The Crew of the RV Investigator, Oceans & Atmosphere, Engineering and Technology Group]
[CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO, Australia’s innovation catalyst]
Tara Martin: I’m Tara Martin and I’m a Marine Geophysicist.
[Image changes to show the RV Investigator at dock and then the image changes to show a facing view of the bridge of the ship]
Australia has the third largest ocean zone in the world and we’ve only mapped about 25% of it. We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the sea floor.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
So, my role involves every time we go to sea, we try to map a little bit more.
[Image changes to show Tara looking out over the sea from the deck of the ship and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
When I was in high school I was going to be an interior designer.
[Image changes to show Tara walking on the deck of the ship]
Science, it was something you did in school. It didn’t have real world applications so far as I knew. So, when I left high school I went straight into a chef’s apprenticeship.
[Image changes to show Tara leaning over the side of the ship with her hair blowing in the wind and then image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
It wasn’t until I was much older that I started to think about potential changes of career and realised that science was the direction I wanted to take.
[Images move through of the operations room, colleagues in conversation around computer screens, Tara nodding, and Tara talking to the camera]
Jumping straight into a geophysics degree without having done maths and physics in high school was a bit of a learning curve. I didn’t actually know what physics was. So, I worked hard, I worked really, really, hard.
[Image changes to show a group of penguins standing on an ice shelf and then the image changes to show Tara rugged up and smiling at the camera against an snow covered landscape]
My first voyage to sea was on a multinational expedition that went down to Antarctica.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
That was a really fascinating experience, a group of people pulling together for a common cause, and amazing scenery as well.
[Image changes to show an icy landscape]
I just fell in love.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
Life at sea hasn’t always been as female friendly as it is now.
[Images move through of a series of winches on the ship, a piece of marine science equipment attached to the winch, colleagues on the deck, and Tara talking to the camera]
Over the course of a 20 year career I’ve certainly experienced moments where I’ve not been allowed to do the work that my male colleagues were on the back deck doing because I was a woman.
[Image changes to show the Investigator moving through the ocean]
Things have changed. Working at sea isn’t for everyone. It has its downsides.
[Image changes to show Tara working on a computer and then the camera zooms out to show Tara and her colleague looking at data on the computer screens]
We work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for up to 60 days at a time. Sometimes you’re sleep deprived. Sometimes the weather’s heavy. It can be physically uncomfortable.
[Images move through of a towed camera being deployed, a small fish swimming, a fish being held in the hands, a red coloured fish on a bench, and a large piece of bone being held by a female]
And then you get the exciting days as well where we put towed cameras down and we see all kinds of amazing footage, or a new species of fish gets identified or we make some exciting new science discovery and those are the moments you go to sea for.
[Image changes to show a group of colleagues talking and laughing and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
A typical day on board for me usually involves waking up and bumbling myself straight into the gym before I’m awake enough to realise what I’ve done.
[Image changes to show Tara running on a treadmill and then the image changes to show Tara walking into the operations room]
I like to get a bit of a run in, go and have breakfast, and then go down and start the day in the operations room.
[Image shows Tara sitting down at a desk in the operations room and describing the diagram on the computer screen]
This is colour coded according to depth. So, reddish yellow and blue is deep. And what we’re looking at here is a little chunk of the Continental Shelf of Antarctica. We’re seeing a lot of information about the geology of the area, or what we call the geomorphology of the area and how that’s been formed.
[Image changes to show a facing view of Tara sitting at the desk and then the image changes to show various sea floor maps on the computer screen she is working on]
In the operations room we’re monitoring up to seven different instruments. We’re not just mapping the sea floor.
[Image changes to show three colleagues in conversation and then the image changes to show Tara talking to the camera while sitting at a desk]
These instruments look all the way from the top of the sea water to the bottom, the sea floor, under the sea floor, and they’re looking at the gravity and magnetic fields for the area as well.
Every single one of these screens tells us something about the environment around us.
[Image changes to show a view of the sun coming from behind a cloud from the deck of the ship and then the image changes to show Tara and a colleague on the deck of the ship looking out]
I get immense satisfaction in my job. It’s not a normal job. I like that. Our jobs link us back to the explorers. We so often see things that no one’s seen before.
[Image changes to show Tara talking to the camera]
We’re working with new types of science that no one’s created before. So, it’s great, we are at the cutting edge.
[Music plays and text appears: Marine National Facility]
[Credits appear: Produced by Ella Kennedy, Camera and Editing by Lara Van Raay, Additional Photos, Tara Martin and Sheri Newman, With thanks to, Tara Martin, The MNF Ship Operations Group, The Crew of the RV Investigator, Oceans & Atmosphere, Engineering and Technology Group]
[CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO, Australia’s innovation catalyst]