Helen Evans - Logging Staff Scientist

Where did you grow up? Gowerton, near Swansea in South Wales.
What’s the most fun about your job? Going to sea, getting to travel,
What are some of the biggest outstanding question in your field? What is the origin of orbital periodicities in sedimentary paleointensity and inclination records? Are ‘cryptochrons’ in the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene only fluctuations in paleointensity or do they have directional changes of the magnetic field associated with them?
	What is your favorite food? Chocolate Coffee Cheese   What is the biggest misconception about your career field? That it is a man’s job When you use the term research “cruise” people get the wrong idea.....   What were your favorite and least favorite subjects in school? Favorite: Geology!! Least Favorite: Home Economics
Where did you go to school? Gowerton Infants School, Tregwyr Junior School, Gowerton Comprehensive School (A-Levels- Geology, Chemistry and Biology) Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London (BSc. Geology with palaeontology) University of Florida (MS, PhD.) What is something about you that most people don’t know? I have been deaf in my right ear since I was a child.