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Question 9 transcript:
"That's a very tough question to answer. I think the most exciting part of the research and the most relevant is really learning how animals that we encounter and that we interact with and that often exploit, like the deep water snappers that are a huge commercial fishery, how their environment shapes the animals that they are and the solutions that they've come to have how they've evolved over time. And that is important for understanding how we can protect them. For example, with the bottom fish, there have been restricted fishing areas set up to try and protect these species but we know so little about what areas of their habitat are important both in terms of feeding and reproduction. We really need to understand how they find their food and what they do with it in order to make informed management decisions."

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?