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Question 7 transcript:
"I think the most important skill that I found for me in research is trying to take huge data sets and figure out how to explain them to other people. You can collect 200 gigabytes of data using active sonar with dolphins in just a few nights, so how to take that huge data set and understand it for ourselves, but also try and explain it to others is really a big challenge that means learning a lot about statistics. But people don't like to talk in those terms so coming up with ways to really explain the concepts that we've been finding so that other people can appreciate the unique lives of spinner dolphins."

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?