I would never have gone on my own, you know, and it’s, to this day I’m just like, I can’t believe I got to go to da da da da da. And one of the interesting parts, and this is also true for the aquarium itself, but in the travels,… Read More
A beautiful view every day. So, you know, it was kind of opportunistic that I got the job at Shedd in the first place. And I would, I would definitely consider that if I was back at that age and knew that Corium was a possibility, I would definitely pursue… Read More
Hmm. I would and I, I did then I, I’ve gotta say, when I first got the job at Quarium, I was, gosh, less than a half year outta grad school, not sure what I was gonna do. My dream was to work at an aquaculture facility and just wasn’t… Read More
Something like that. Anyway, bottom line is I went to Shedd Aquarium, I interviewed, Shedd had taught part of the master’s program. There was, we would have field trips down to the aquaquarium to see various aspects of the operation. And we also had individuals come out to the university… Read More
And you know, like, well, what kind of job can you find in Chicago?… Read More
And obviously that just destroys reefs. We were out in an area called the Ulu Sea, and we were anchored at a sea mount. It was a formation that had come up from 3000 feet and came to within about 40 feet of the surface so we could anchor there. Read More
In the years that you’ve been in it and knowing what you know today, would you have entered the field when you did and would you enter it today and why?… Read More
Some people don’t wanna play ball and it’s probably because they can’t meet our standards, but we have identified individuals that are very reliable. If you’re going for a very unique animal, there’s precious few people. You might be best served doing it on your own, or you might find… Read More
I don’t think that we would ever have the collection that we have at chat aquaquarium without working with dealers. Many of those individuals have sought and some have attained, I not sure what the proper term is now. It used to be a commercial affiliate of a ZA. The… Read More
Yes. Dealers in the aquatic world are kind of few and far between, but you know, through the, the brotherhood of the aquariums, we identify this guy is great at collecting nurse sharks or this guy’s great at reef fishes or a specific type of fish. There were several individuals… Read More
So there’s a lot of rock work in place. There’s a lot of locations that they know they’re gonna put coral, little coral colonies there to the point that eventually they’ll propagate and create a beautiful coral wall. And then associated with that, you’re gonna have fishes that are not… Read More
Yeah, again, you know, going back to creating the natural habitat and then part of that and something that I was always hopeful for and it never happened while I was at the aquaquarium, although maybe with the redesign it will happen now. I always wanted to create a larger… Read More
Did the aquarium profession and did the Shedd depend on dealers for acquiring fish or unique species?… Read More
You talked a little about landscape immersion, but what, what are your thoughts on the trends in the last quarter century?… Read More
You’ve mentioned drastic reduction of animal species in the collections. Read More
They’re, eh, two to three inches long and they live in little shallow stream areas. They need a current going across them. So you could put ’em in a 400 gallon aquarium, but they didn’t have the stimulation of that water flowing past them. They, they actually orient up into… Read More
And I think, you know, it’s, it’s an interesting challenge with zoos for instance, if you get larger animals and you have a, a much greater yard or you know, three dimensional aspects to it. We have three dimensional aspects to an aquarium, but it’s just not as large. But… Read More
Can you gimme your thoughts on new trends in aquariums in the last quarter of a century?… Read More
Yeah, the, to go back to the, the early days, and I experienced that I was probably coming in on the end of the early days, but it was laughingly called the Stacked Rock exhibit, where you literally would take a certain type of rock and try to create some… Read More
What was your approach to exhibit design and and how did you develop that approach?… Read More