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Marine biologist James Childress has had a lifelong love of water, although he grew up in Indiana, far from any ocean. "As a kid, I was an avid swimmer and fisherman." Today, he "fishes" for sea creatures that live in deep ocean waters, to bring them back alive to his lab to study their "amazing adaptability to austere living conditions," he says. He hopes his students will learn to appreciate the deep-sea environment. "I want my students to develop a new way of looking at the familiar," he says. "In deep-sea biology, this comes from learning about life in an environment that is seldom taught." In his classes, Childress also likes to emphasize the history, methods, and controversy around scientific study: "Not just what we believe today, but how we arrived at those beliefs." Being a marine scientist, he says, 'involves viewing the entire ocean as an area of inquiry." Go to catalog listing for: Department
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