This week we chat with CQUni's Adam Rose, a PhD researcher into water quality. Adam shares about his childhood obsessions with fishing and crabbing which eventually laid the foundations for his career in water research. In fact, as a 13-year-old he recalls helping CQUni researchers in his home town of Gladstone catching specimens. However, we hear it took a while for him to come around, studying both engineering and accounting, before returning to his love of the water and pursuing environmental science. Adam also shares about his current Baffle Creek research project and his passion to debunk the bottled water phenomenon. He talks about the process of feeling comfortable as a researcher and being proud of his regional roots.