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Greg Shellenbarger I grew up landlocked in Ohio yet still managed to develop an early fascination
with the ocean. I was SCUBA certified at 15 (oh the joys of those Ohio
rock quarries!) because I thought all marine biologists had to dive. During
my undergraduate years at Bowling Green State University, I studied biology,
marine science and chemistry. A summer of marine science immersion was
spent at Shoals Marine Lab off the coast of Maine. After college I spent
an incredible year exploring the dive community with the Our World Underwater
Scholarship. This gave me the opportunity to gain dive experience on all
three coasts of the US, the Caribbean, and the Red Sea. Still with the
lingering marine bug, I completed a Master's degree with Jon Witman (and
fellow mission mates Jim and Sal) at Northeastern University working on
sponge predation defenses, and was able to avoid three Boston winters
by teaching for the East/West Marine Biology Program in Jamaica. Following
this, I taught oceanography for Sea Education Association. The siren song
of school again called. Today I am working on a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Stanford University under Stephen Monismith. My project
involves understanding the mechanisms that drive large scale flows around
coral reefs, how this transports nutrients and the biological response.
This is my fourth Aquarius mission.
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