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She Rejected Medicine to Study the Ocean From Space | Sejal Pramlall
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Sejal Pramlall is a South African oceanographer and PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. She uses satellites to study the water quality and productivity of the world's oceans — work that sits at the intersection of marine science, climate change, and space technology.
In this episode, Sejal takes us through a journey that is anything but conventional: from growing up in Johannesburg and dreaming of medicine, to a BSc triple major at UCT, a first job in the Maldives that turned out to be a masterclass in greenwashing, an Honours year that took her to Antarctica on a South African icebreaker, a Masters at the University of Victoria in Canada with fieldwork on Calvert Island with the Hakai Institute, a sailing expedition from Cape Town to Mozambique, and eventually a PhD opportunity she found on Twitter — the day after her Canadian visa was rejected.
We also get into what it means to be a young South African Indian woman in a field where representation is rare, why she left South Africa (and what it would take to bring her back), the difference between happiness and satisfaction, and why your job title is not your identity.
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