Joe Montoya is a professor of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Growing up in a military family, he had the opportunity to travel and experience different ocean environments around the world. His resulting fascination led to a career in oceanography.

Here, Dr. Montoya talks about being part of the scientific team that conducted the earliest Deepwater Horizon experiments just after the well was capped in September 2010.

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