My advisor is Russ McDuff . During the upcoming year, I will continue to volunteer as an instructor with the Ocean Inquiry Project and other boat-based science education programs. As a long-term project I have maintained the web pages of the UW School of Oceanography Exploraquarium . The Ph.D. is generally the first practice at defining major portions of one's own questions. Accomplish a piece of theory, a piece of field work, and a piece of laboratory work as part of your Ph.D. research.
Good models follow good data.
One good observation is worth a thousand simulations.