And now with Antarctic science being really a global science and part of understanding how the world works, it is becoming really vital that everybody works together."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

"It's also a wonderful concept to reward a woman from each of the five major regional areas in which science is being conducted around the world, in a celebration of not only women in science, but also the importance of science in a world community."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29