Dr. Peter Auster: Job Description My job is focused on
understanding the ecology of fishes and mostly just looking at
the behavior of fishes in the environment in which they live.
And we do this using scuba diving... snorkels and scuba diving,
research submarines, remotely operated vehicles... actually
getting into the environment where fish occur versus looking at
the fish coming up in the net or in bottles back in the
laboratory. Then after we go and collect this data mostly on
video, we spend a lot of time in the laboratory analyzing the
video to produce data that we use for conducting various
statistical tests, writing papers for journals, writing
proposals. I also help lead the undersea research center here at
the university. The national undersea research center, here at
the University of Connecticut, is one of six undersea centers
funded by the national undersea program and that's part of NOAA.
What we do is provide advanced diving technologies to the
regional science community. Here our region is the