What were YOU doing on 15 April?

The scientists, science communicators, engineers, medical researchers, university students, etc., who are listed below each sent us a diary entry explaining what activities made up their day in science on 15 April 2005.

We also asked them:

• 'What interested you when you were in high school?' and
• 'How did you get to where you are today?'

Here is what they told us.

Archaeology

• Sean Winter, SciTech, Australia (honours student & science communicator)

Astronomy

• Jessica Dempsey, University of New South Wales, Australia (based in Antarctica)

Bioinformatics

• Bruno Gaeta, University of New South Wales, Australia

Chemistry

• Pippa Shuff, Research Analyst, United Kingdom (based in Prague)

Climatology

• Andrew Watkins, National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Engineering

• JacQ, University of New South Wales, Australia (university student)
• Prethvin Seth, Integrated Power Systems, Ltd., Australia
• Sheikh Abdul Rezan, University of New South Wales, Australia (postgraduate student)
• Robin Ford, University of New South Wales, Australia

Entrepreneurship in Science

• Laurence Osen, University of New South Wales, Australia

Genetics

• Alan Wilton, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Tom Dixon, CSIRO Livestock Industries (Brisbane), Australia

Marine Biologist

• Merrick Ekins, Queensland Museum, Australia

Medical Sciences

• Franklin Rosenfeldt, Cardiac Surgical Research Unit & Monash University, Australia
• Hayley Blacker, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia (honours student)
• Noel Whitaker, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Prajni Sadananda, University of New South Wales, Australia (honours student)

Physics

• Anuj Purwar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America
• Gordon Watts, Fermilab, United States of America
• Joe Wolfe, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Peter Steinberg, Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
• Shohei Nishida, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan
• Sue Hagon, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Ursula Bassler, LPNHE-Paris, DO-France
• Zhi-Zhong Xing, IHEP, China

Safety Science

• Sarah Locke, University of New South Wales, Australia (postgraduate student)

Science Communication

• David Muller, science theatre writer/producer/actor, South Africa
• Ginny Stone, iThemba LABS, South Africa
• Janine Young, Biotechnology Online, Australia
• Jeannie Leroi, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Julia Wasserberger, University of New South Wales, Australia (university student)
• Rebecca Crawford, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Roslyn Gleadow, Monash University, Australia
• Sarah Brooker, Science in Public PR, Australia
• Saskia Rogers, freelance science communicator, Australia
• Will Rifkin, University of New South Wales, Australia