When I was in elementary school and teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I always answered something science related. It started out as archaeology, then went to paleontology, then astronomy. Then in 7th grade, the beginning of Junior high it changed to Marine Biology, but at that point I already knew that I didn't want to have much to do with marine plants, so I was calling it Marine Zoology. I knew I wanted to study sharks, and I knew I wanted to study Great Whites. It wasn't until after I read the book Jaws, by Peter Benchley, that I learned the word for the profession that I wanted. Ichthyology.

All through high school, I didn't know what it was exactly I wanted to do in the field of ichthyology, I just knew I wanted to study sharks. It wasn't until I transfered to CSU Long Beach that I finally started to narrow it down. Right now I'm interested in studying the behavior of juvenile white sharks. That would allow me to possibly stay in Southern California for a while.

Eventually I hope to work in South Africa at the White Shark Research Institute, but that's a very long term goal of mine.

I have another interest besides sharks when it comes to ichthyology and marine biology. And that's Bio and Chemoluminescence and all the deep sea fishes. Perhaps someday I'll study them as well, but as for right now, I'm interested in getting to know more about the sharks and helping to educate others in an attempt to boost the public opinion of them. I know that they'll never be as widely loved as dolphins and whales, but they're in just as much danger from going extinct.

I eventually hope to find some papers that I've written on both subjects and put them up on the site. Either linking them to this page, or just listing them here. I'm not sure about which I'm going to do yet though.

Until then.