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Question 2 transcript:
"My research focuses on how animals in the open ocean feed; how they find their food and how they interact with that food. And the flip side of that is how does the prey try to avoid becoming dinner. I guess I really got interested in it in thinking about the world, the way we see it in two dimensions where everything is pretty flat and we live on a two dimensional surface, but things in the ocean are so much more complicated because the animals have to live in three dimensions. And so much of what we know about the ecology of animals is based on things that live on the substrate even in the ocean that it was more of an open area that I felt that I could make newer findings in."

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 the foraging behavior of spinner dolphins and deepwater snappers?
4. How do you use acoustics to study foraging behavior?
5. What challenges have you faced when studying the behavior of animals that forage beneath the sea surface?
6. What has most surprised you about the foraging behavior of spinner dolphins?
7. What skills are important in your area of research?
8. What are the opportunities in studying foraging behavior? 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 interest in pursuing a career in your field?