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Question 7 transcript:
"The skills that are needed in our work are varied. They, clearly in my case, I have an engineering background, and I find engineering a lot of fun. So, developing these instruments, the floats for example and other instruments that we have worked with, has been a fun thing to do. Fun in the sense of the engineering but it also feels motivating because you know in the end that these tools are going to be quite helpful in understanding various processes or phenomena in the ocean. But you don't do these things in isolation. You work together with people around you and the engineers that I have worked with over the years are really the people who have made all this possible. Doug Webb at Woods Hole, was key to the SOFAR float development that was really his doing. Jim Fontaine, here at GSO has been absolutely key to the development of the RAFOS float. And these people are just incredibly clever and with out them we just wouldn't be doing what we're doing today."

1. How did you first become interested in science?
2. What is the focus of your research and why did you choose this field of study?
3. What have been some recent discoveries in the study of ocean currents?
4. How do you use acoustics to study ocean currents?
5. What challenges have you faced in studying ocean currents?
6. What has most surprised you about studying ocean currents?
7. What skills are important in your area of research?
8. What are the opportunities in the study of ocean currents? Can people with out PhDs participate in some way in this type of research?
9. What is the greatest impact/relevance of your research?
10. What continues to inspire you about your work?
11. What advice would you give a high school student who expressed an interst in pursuing a career in your field?