Kevin Kurtz
Children's Author & Educator
Celli Hull is a scientist!
Dr. Pincelli Hull is an oceanographer (a scientist who studies the ocean) and a paleontologist (a scientist who studies fossils to learn about ancient life). Her lab is at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She does a lot of her field research in Bermuda and in the open ocean, in places like the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. She says about her research, "Life is amazing- from whales to dinosaurs, there are a lot of different ways of living. My research asks what happens to life when the environment changes. Why do some species go extinct and other species just move or evolve to avoid extinction?"
A scientist's job is to ask questions that we don't know the answers to and then work to find the answers through observation, experiments, and careful thinking. A scientific question that Celli would like to answer is "After a mass extinction, like the one that killed the dinosaurs, why does it take so long for life to get back to ‘normal’ again?"
You can learn more about Celli and her research here.