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Question 3 transcript:
"Some of our most exciting discoveries have been how dolphins work together. It turns out that it's pretty hard to make a living as a dolphin; they eat really small animals so they need to eat a lot of them each night and that's really a hard thing to do. So instead of trying to find prey alone, dolphins work together in groups of up to twenty-eight and just taking what's there, they make the density of their prey even higher than it is, by up to 200 times actually of what it is naturally. By doing that it makes it a lot easier for them to eat a lot of these little fish over the course of the night. So that's the kind of new and exciting finding."

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?