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    Published 21 June 2007 Referencing Hub media
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    The film The Day After Tomorrow got Leah interested in climate1 and weather2. She was interested in things like twisters and extreme weather events. Through her degree in Earth Science she was able to study some weather patterns.

    Points of interest for teachers:
    Scientists find their inspiration and interest at times through reading interesting information, talking to other people and as the example shows sometimes even from watching movies. Students may want to consider what sparked their interest in an issue or something that made them want to find out more.

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    LEAH ADLAM
    Actually I have to say it was a film. It was The Day After Tomorrow – and the climate change3 and the abrupt nature of it, actually got me interested in the weather events, like twisters and you know big massive storms and such. So I did my Bachelor of Science doing Earth and Ocean Sciences here and I kept it pretty broad. I did some of the soil sciences, the oceanography, the hydrology4 courses. The Master of Science is also in Earth and Ocean Sciences, so the earth science degree was just a way to get into that and to study that and understand some weather patterns a bit more and yeah. I guess it’s really weird hearing me say it’s actually from a film but it, it was that interest that got me started in the earth science direction.

    1. climate: The weather conditions of an area averaged over a series of years, usually 30 or more.
    2. weather: Daily or short-term conditions like temperature, cloud cover, precipitation and wind affecting a certain area.
    3. climate change: The large-scale, long-term increase in the Earth’s average temperatures, with associated changes in weather patterns. There is significant scientific evidence that warming is due to increased quantities of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, with most of the rise due to human activity.
    4. hydrology: The study of movement, distribution or quality of water throughout the Earth’s systems.
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      climate

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      2. The weather conditions of an area averaged over a series of years, usually 30 or more.

      hydrology

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      3. The study of movement, distribution or quality of water throughout the Earth’s systems.

      weather

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      4. Daily or short-term conditions like temperature, cloud cover, precipitation and wind affecting a certain area.

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      5. The large-scale, long-term increase in the Earth’s average temperatures, with associated changes in weather patterns. There is significant scientific evidence that warming is due to increased quantities of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, with most of the rise due to human activity.

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