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Question 1 transcript:
"I actually got into science sideways. I wasn't exactly interested in it. In high school in particular I wasn't very interested in science. I was more interested in languages and history. In college it was required that I take a science. So I took biology and discovered that there was a whole world I knew nothing about but which was fascinating. And that world was largely the world of other animals. What they hear, how they probably think, things that happen in their world that we can't even begin to perceive and that fascinated me."

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 about how marine mammals hear?
4. How do you study the hearing of marine mammals?
5. What challenges have you faced in studying the hearing of marine mammals?
6. What has most surprised you about the hearing of marine mammals?
7. What skills are important in your area of research?
8. What are the opportunities in studying the hearing of marine mammals? Can people without PhDs 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?