{"id":279,"date":"2020-08-17T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/?p=279"},"modified":"2023-10-12T21:26:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:26:37","slug":"bonar-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/bonar-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonar Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Master of Science with Distinction, Banking Analytics for ASB<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/files\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-27-at-10.57.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-281\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/files\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-27-at-10.57.44-AM-1024x834.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonar Carson, Banking Analytics at ASB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bonar Carson chose Otago because of its good reputation for science.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI found Physics really intriguing and thought provoking \u2013 it just drew me in. I wanted to know how and why everything in the world worked and Physics was the best way to answer those questions. Physics was what worked best for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonar followed his first class honours BSc with a master\u2019s in space physics, investigating relativistic electron precipitation \u2014 what happens when electrons trapped in the radiation belts collide with the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was a world first project noone else had investigated on this scale, and even though we are in a remote part of the world I had regular interactions with colleagues in the USA, the UK and Europe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Bonar had his mind on space, but his feet on the ground. As a student he helped with tutoring and with Hands-on Science, and was a sub-warden at Arana College for two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t there to stop anyone having fun but to stop them taking things too far, offer support with any issues and help them have an awesome time \u2014 make their time at college as enjoyable and productive as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also worked with the Red Cross, spending time with an emergency response team in post-earthquake Christchurch. Even before he completed his master\u2019s \u2014 with distinction \u2014 he was recruited to the analytics stream of ASB\u2019s Future Me graduate programme, trading physics for banking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPhysics and mathematics made me comfortable with numbers \u2013 a numerical problem-solver. Physics taught me how to learn and put that knowledge to use. I\u2019m using the same skill set that I learned for electrons and space, but now with customers and dollars, and it\u2019s very exciting. Otago prepared me better than I would have predicted. Not just the learning that you do at university but also the learning you do outside the classroom \u2013 learning about life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master of Science with Distinction, Banking Analytics for ASB Bonar Carson chose Otago because of its good reputation for science. \u201cI found Physics really intriguing and thought provoking \u2013 it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-graduates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}