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Question 2 transcript:
"The focus of my research is really hearing in other species besides humans. Well, actually that is not fair. I have two foci, the plural of focus. One is to actually work with humans and the other is specifically to work on other species than humans. With human hearing what I do is to try to develop better ways of imaging ears that are dysfunctional or people with failing hearing or who have lost their hearing. So with humans, my human hearing work the focus is a better way to look inside the head to determine what's happening with their hearing structures, their auditory structures. With other species the focus is to try to understand what they hear very simply. Because no two species hear the same frequencies, they don't hear as well at one frequency or another. We wanted to understand what they do hear and how that happens, how they manage to hear differently."

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?