VOLUNTEERS
‘…my mum always used to tell me, You make your own luck. When people ask if I want to do something, I say yes. By saying yes, you open up opportunity. By saying no, you shut everything down’
GETTING TO KNOW YOU One word to describe you would be? Spontaneous.
What’s one thing you can’t live without? Adventures with Ian. What’s the last concert you went to? Blues musician Tim Williams. What are you reading right now? CSEG Recorder. What’s the best career advice you’ve received? Be open to all opportunities. People used to tell me how lucky I am because I get great jobs. But my mum always used to tell me, You make your own luck. When people ask if I want to do something, I say yes. By saying yes, you open up opportunity. By saying no, you shut everything down. What are the top three travel destinations still on your bucket list? Antarctica, South America, and Madagascar. Do you have a favourite travel memory? Riding my motorcycle over the Stelvio Pass in Italy. (It’s the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps and has about 50 hairpin turns.) How about a work highlight from your recent overseas experience? One of my jobs was with Cairn Energy, a small Scottish company that was doing offshore exploration in West Greenland from North Baffin Bay to the Davis Strait. We were drilling around 100 kilometres from the nearest offset well in mini subbasins that no one had ever drilled into. That was real frontier exploration — wild catting and drilling wells to get genuinely new information. What’s the background on your cellphone? ? Myself and Ian in the catacombs in Rome. What’s your motto in life? I’ve got two: Well behaved women don’t make history; Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly. media glass artist. One of her recent pieces, displayed at the APEGA Summit Awards Gala Art Show in April, is of the iconic Burmis pine tree on Highway 3. Rusty nails, arranged in the shape of the centuries-old tree, were embedded in epoxy resin and framed in an old farm window. Dr. Newrick sees art as an extension of her work. “Geoscience is a creative science. When we’re doing petroleum exploration, we have to imagine the Earth in 3D. We have to take the 2-D data that we have and, within our minds, manipulate it into a 3-D image and try to predict where oil may be. By their very nature, most geoscientists are very creative.” This summer, Dr. Newrick and her partner are starting another big adventure. Her young siblings — 10-year-old Harry and 12-year-old Ola — are moving to Canada to live with them for a couple of years. “They live in Brighton in the U.K. We want them to experience the fabulous Canadian outdoors — a new experience from the city lifestyle. We’re looking forward to exploring with them closer to home.”
DR. RACHEL NEWRICK, P.GEOL., P.GEOPH.
Dr. Newrick and her partner, Ian Crawford, on a road trip near Scotland’s Isle of Skye, with Eilean Donan Castle as the backdrop.
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