In the field: an interview with Sönke Johnsen

Abstract

Sönke Johnsen is a Professor at Duke University, USA, investigating visual ecology. After completing his degree in mathematics at Swarthmore College, USA, and a PhD with William Kier at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Johnsen worked as a post-doc with Edie Widder at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA, and Larry Madin at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA. He remained at Woods Hole as an Assistant Scientist before moving to Duke as an Assistant Professor. Johnsen talks about his experiences of collecting transparent animals while blue water diving and in a submersible, as well as outrunning Hurricane Katrina in 2005.