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Question 8 transcript:
"I think people without any kind of strong scientific training can still participate because when you work with a dolphin, say in captivity, there is so many things that has to be done. There are things like cleaning the pens, things like thawing the fish, making sure that the fish are weighed, making sure that someone is doing some kind of nutritional check on the fish. There's so many different things that needs to be done just to maintain some kind of operation and this is especially true with captive animals. But then if you are working in the field you have to have someone to drive the boat, someone to maintain the boat, someone to do those kinds of things. So there's so many different things that has to be done and in truth you really need to have trained people. Now, they don't have to be educated in the strict sense that we look how people are educated in academia, but they have to have some kind of skill. The skills might be working on the water, knowing how boats work, how to operate at night in the field, or how to do carpentry or how to do painting, or various kinds of things. There's so many things have has to be done, but it requires skill."

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 of the recent discoveries in echolocation by marine mammals?
4. How do you study echolocation?
5. What challenges have you faced in studying the echolocation of dolphins?
6. What has most surprised you about the echolocating abilities of dolphins?
7. What skills are important in your area of research?
8. 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?
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 interest in pursuing a career in your field?