
Interview Question 11 with Dr. Whit Au
11. What advice would you give a high school student who expressed an interest in pursuing a career in your field?
Question 11 transcript:
"I would say study, study, study. There's no substitute for that. You only can get information if you have some information yourself. You only can get to do research if you know what's happened in the past. So you need to just increase the knowledge base that an individual has, whether it be in math, in physics, in biology, psychology, whatever it is. The more you know, the more you can know, basically, and so that's really important."
Interview Questions:
- How did you first become interested in science?
- What is the focus of your research and why did you choose this field of study?
- What have been some of the recent discoveries in echolocation by marine mammals?
- How do you study echolocation?
- What challenges have you faced in studying the echolocation of dolphins?
- What has most surprised you about the echolocating abilities of dolphins?
- What skills are important in your area of research?
- What are the opportunities in the studying echolocating abilities of dolphins? Can people without PhD's participate in some way in this type of research?
- What is the greatest impact/relevance of your research?
- What continues to inspire you about your work?
- What advice would you give a high school student who expressed an interest in pursuing a career in your field?
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