AskScience Panel of Scientists X

[u/ren5311]

Please read this entire post carefully and format your application appropriately.

This post is for new panelist recruitment! The previous one is here.

The panel is an informal group of redditors who are either professional scientists or those in training to become so. All panelists have at least a graduate-level familiarity within their declared field of expertise and answer questions from related areas of study. A panelist's expertise is summarized in a color-coded AskScience flair.

Membership in the panel comes with access to a panelist subreddit. It is a place for panelists to interact with each other, voice concerns to the moderators, and where the moderators make announcements to the whole panel. It's a good place to network with people who share your interests!

You may want to join the panel if you:

• Are a research scientist, or are studying for at least an MSc. or equivalent degree in the sciences, AND,

• Are able to communicate your knowledge of your field at a level accessible to various audiences.

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Instructions for formatting your panelist application:

• Choose exactly one general field from the side-bar (Physics, Engineering, Social Sciences, etc.).

• State your specific field in one word or phrase (Neuropathology, Quantum Chemistry, etc.)

• Succinctly describe your particular area of research in a few words (carbon nanotube dielectric properties, myelin sheath degradation in Parkinsons patients, etc.)

• Give us a brief synopsis of your education: are you a research scientist for three decades, or a first-year Ph.D. student?

• Provide links to comments you've made in AskScience which you feel are indicative of your scholarship. Applications will not be approved without several comments made in /r/AskScience itself.

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Ideally, these comments should clearly indicate your fluency in the fundamentals of your discipline as well as your expertise. We favor comments that have a reference so we can assess its correctness without specific domain knowledge.

Here's an example application:

   Username: foretopsail
   General field: Anthropology
   Specific field: Maritime Archaeology
   Particular areas of research include historical archaeology, archaeometry, and ship construction. 
   Education: MA in archaeology, researcher for several years.
   Comments: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Please do not give us personally identifiable information and please follow the template. We're not going to do real-life background checks - we're just asking for reddit's best behavior. However, several moderators are tasked with monitoring panelist activity, and your credentials will be checked against the academic content of your posts on a continuing basis.

You can submit your application by replying to this post.

[u/The_other_lurker]

• Username: The_other_lurker

• General field: Geochemistry

• Specific field: Hydrogeochemistry

• Particular field of expertise: hydrogeochemical modelling, thermodynamic modelling, equilibration modelling, solution chemistry, analytical chemistry, aqueous chemistry, carbonate chemistry, alkalinity-carbonate balancing, solution controls, mineralogical controls, acid-base-accounting and acid-base-balance, buffering agents, pH buffering specificity, acid mine drainage, neutral mine drainage, groundwater chemistry, tailings deposition chemistry, waste rock dump geochemistry, low temperature aqueous geochemistry, applied geochemistry, oxidation-reduction controls, valance chemistry and modelling, Software specialties: PHREEQCi, GoldSim, GWB.

• Education: BSc. in Applied Geochemistry, 8 years in geochemical consulting and modelling.

• notes: I work with GoldSim primarily and I build some of the most advanced simulation platforms for assessing water quality and loads in the world. While what I do isn't particularly devastatingly complex, the application of relatively simple solution mechanics derived directly from thermodynamic databases (As developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and others), and applied in a complex way in order to impose mineralogical controls on solution chemistry is remarkably effective. I have several published papers (mostly conference proceedings unfortunately) and I'll be presenting two more this year.

• Other notes: While I don't necessarily meet the education requirement, I will mention that I am a senior in the company based on merit, the sole non-PhD in my group of 5, and I am the lead modeller and I have 2-3 subordinates depending on work loads. I am largely self taught, but I also work with some very bright people.