I am a research ecologist at NOAA’s Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research
in Beaufort, North Carolina, but to my family, I’m simply a ‘marine biologist.’ I use underwater acoustic technologies (like fisheries sonar, fish-finding echo sounders, and multibeam sonar) to remotely detect fish and observe their behaviors in estuaries and the ocean. I also get in the water as a scuba diver as often as I can when my research takes me to coral reefs in the U.S. Caribbean, Florida Keys, and the Gulf of Mexico.