Career Magazine

"I like [new recruits] to be fired with enthusiasm for science and for what it can offer society."

"Career opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students are exploding in the remote sensing field, particularly in applications of these technologies in agriculture and natural resource management."

"It's not just plants that benefit from JIC's hothouse atmosphere. Commercially minded scientists should find their ideas carefully nurtured, too."

"Individuals are encouraged to work with approved institutions that have established ethics review boards."

"Alas, I have found that this process has given me new vigor about my work and the work I am proposing to do."

One important lesson I learned from the results of our investigations was that combining goals like animal welfare and sustainable resource utilisation may in some cases lead to unavoidable and even irresolvable conflicts.

"For me, [the appeal of the program] was a real focus on getting out of the lab and into the field, and then from the field onto farms, working with people who are dealing with these problems every day." --Steve Gleissman