Ah, gosh, probably, probably keeping an open mind, which I guess pertains to just about any job I would think. But it’s being receptive to new things. Female aquas. I mean, I remember when the first female aquas came to the Shedd and there was a lot of, oh yeah,… Read More
And sometimes it’s like, yeah, but how are you gonna achieve that in this small space?… Read More
You know, come back to me, you know, if we can make it happen, let’s, let’s go toward that. Some people would love to have deep sea fishes. Read More
What was, what was the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
But I would say by and large the history is of nominal interest to most aquarists unfortunately. But it is. Read More
But the history, I gotta say, I would say for the large part, most aqua that I have known don’t really know a lot about the history of aquas or don’t speak about it or maybe just don’t care. They know where they are today. They know, you know, as… Read More
There are those individuals that are zealots about the history. I, I’m thinking of a couple individuals at Sha Aquarium that collect memorabilia from, you know, the beginnings of SHA Aquarium or back to European aquariums. Very, very focused on the history and can certainly see the evolution. We used… Read More
A lot of people would go there to get ideas for their own home aquarium type of thing. But the ballots room had to do with the, the concept was we’re not gonna have any mechanical thing other than light keeping these animals alive. We’re gonna have natural plants in… Read More
Do you believe that a Aquarius in the profession or even younger curators are aware of and understand the history of the aquarium field?… Read More
And do you think that’s important?… Read More
And it was just a neat feeling to know that all is not lost. There are still good places around the world and the, the, I think experience in animals in a field, or at least the environments in which they come, would be a big part of, you know,… Read More
I, you know, I don’t think it’s critical, but I can’t imagine not having it. To me, every time I would be in a wild environment, you know, working with whatever animals, it’s a chance to, if you will experience the environment and you know, if you’re scuba diving, obviously… Read More
And he had planted radio transmitters in them. Anyway, we’re out on the river and he’s got his antenna up and you know, we locate ’em and try and capture them and measure them and all that. At one point we took a break and one of his team members… Read More
I’m like, oh man, I don’t know the otters and belugas, you know, these fish. I said, you know what? I walked around my last few days and it, I realized I’m gonna miss the people. There are so many like-minded individuals that have the best intentions in mind. They’re… Read More
Do you feel though it’s important for the curatorial staff to have you mentioned it, field experience?… Read More
And when people would ask me, you know, last day, so what are you gonna miss most when you leave chat aquarium?… Read More
So you know, we’re taking flights successively smaller aircraft up there to the point that the last aircraft, we landed on the beach where we were gonna do our work and we get outta the plane, we’re offloading and then we meet the crew and three outta the nine individuals… Read More
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