Video: A Day in the Life of Amy Dunkerton

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Amy Dunkerton:

My name's Amy.

I'm a scientist at Townsville Laboratory Services.

In my role at Council, I test water to make sure it's safe for human consumption and also that it complies with environmental regulations.

I previously worked in water laboratories before and when the opportunity came up to work as a scientist at the Townsville Laboratory Services I jumped at the opportunity because I thought it would be really interesting working in a Council environment and it's great to be able to work with state-of-the-art equipment without having to move to a capital city.

My typical day is running instruments testing samples and creating the relevant reports that go out to our clients.

We test for a variety of different analytes in water.

Some of these include blue-green algae, micro counts, trace metals and also certain nutrients that can be in water.

I like working for Council because it's fun.

It's really interesting, every day there's always something new and something different.

It doesn't really feel like work because I'm working with such a great bunch of people.