Glenn Carter Glenn Carter's experience at APL-UW exemplifies the Laboratory's ability to offer research programs that are tailored to students' science objective and distinguished by the opportunities for hands-on field experience. Glenn's career as an oceanography encompassed all aspects of the research enterprise—theoretical analysis, field deployment of novel instrumentation, data collection and analysis, and the publication of results. Glenn defended his Ph.D. dissertation on turbulent ocean mixing near extreme seafloor topography in 2005. His research considered theturbulence resulting from the interaction of internal waves and tidal flow with topography at two site: the Monterey submarine canyon and the Hawaiian ridge. Near Hawaii, for example, ocean mixing rates over the udersea ridges were thousands of times more intense than typically found in the open ocean. "I have been very lucky to have had so much time as sea," says Glenn. "This sea time hs given me agreat education into the specialty instrumentation that makes the Laboratory a leader in small scale oceanography." His advisor, Professor Mike Gregg, praises Glenn's dedication to mastering the instrumentation because maximizing performance and data quality drive good science. Carter's experience on one-dozen-plus research cruises included two out of Honolulu, which yielded data for his disseration research, one that ended in the Galapagos Islands, one based from Istanbul, Turkey, and another from Athens, Greece. Glenn admits that, "Overall, I have spent over 200 days at sea as a student at APL-UW." Mike Gregg add, "I experienced the most interesting ports of my career as an oceanographer on the cruises that included Glenn." Glenn relates that, "On six long curises we collected microstructure data around the clock utilizing two 12-hour watches. On two recent field experiment, one in the North Pacific and one in the Aegean Sea, I was the watch commanded for one of those watches." As commander he was responsible for implementing the cruise's science plan and coordinating the efforts of the ship's captian and crew with the chief scientist and research team. He also served as deck boss, overseeig that the launch and recovery of all instruments proceeded according to plan. Carter left APL-UW in late 2005 to begin a post-doctoral position at the University of Hawaii, but he and Gregg are certain that their research collaborations will continue.