If a dinosaur ever stepped into the water, she could tell you the exact temperature of that water — 150 million years later.

In this second episode of WE ROCK GeoCareers, Sam-Bien Sogle sits down with Clémentine Colpaert, micropalaeontologist at the University of Geneva.

Her field of study: microscopic fossils called foraminifera, sometimes smaller than a grain of sand, that recorded the exact ocean temperatures from the age of the dinosaurs in their shells. Her path: a degree in France, a PhD completed in Russian in Siberia, a postdoc in China, another in Germany — and now, Geneva.

In this episode:
— Her journey: from Lille to Siberia, from China to Germany, to Geneva
— Micropalaeontology explained simply
— How a microscopic fossil tells the story of the climate 150 million years ago
— Her work on foraminifera from Normandy and Tibet
— The real cost of international mobility in research
— The truth about academic careers
— The WE ROCK signature question: which foraminifera species feels most like her?

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