About the Oceanographer
My name is Sam Urmy, and I am the eponymous oceanographer. I grew up just outside of the fair city of Boston, Massachusetts, and have been interested in things oceanic for a long time. I got an undergrad degree in Earth Systems with an Oceans focus from the Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, California and am studying towards a master’s degree with John Horne’s Fisheries Acoustics Lab in the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington. That makes me a bioecoacoustical fisheries oceanographer, which should be good for at least 15 minutes of confused cocktail party explanation. All opinions expressed on this site are mine and mine alone, so please don't get mad at anyone else for them.
When not being an oceanographer, I like getting outside, cooking, strumming guitar, taking photos, and pretending to be 1337. I can be engaged easily in most nerdy discussions.
This site takes its name from a song by the Mountain Goats. The song actually has very little to do with oceanography. The photo at the masthead is of a few cydippid ctenophores, Pleurobrachia bachei, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.