How research will help me to achieve my goals after I graduate

Research is the foundation of my aspirations. My dream is to be part of a network of living laboratories, working with a community of “research farms’ who explore the impacts of human activity. We would try to develop protocol and methods of monitoring which accurately detect change that compromises the integrity of natural systems on which we rely. All systems are unique and so the problem becomes quite complex when considering individual circumstances. Protocol would have to be flexible, adaptable, and mimic the organic flow of the system it tries to explain. Another major component of research would be to explore and test sustainable methods of creating energy, building housing, managing waste, producing food and enriching quality of life. Natural systems are a closed loop, and so we would seek to imitate these processes. The main thing is to explore ideas, try them out, test them objectively, assess the results, perhaps alter the idea and then try it again. This is essentially the application of the scientific method, combining a diverse community of sustainability-oriented disciplines.