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Interviews  

1. What is your definition of science?  
Science is a careful, analytic attempt to explain phenomena.  
    What is your definition of art?  
I see art as a mode of expressing thoughts, feelings, and communications about the world around you. I described what I think it is to an artist friend, as a communication, but he said it is more of a personal expression.  

2.  What drew you towards science?  
My involvement as a kid in natural history-- doing outdoor stuff. I spent summers during high school working as a nature counselor, working in museums of natural history. My love of things that called out for explanation and interpretation.  
    Why do you think artists are drawn to their fields?  
Artists are drawn because they discover a mode of expression that is satisfying-- a way to translate responses to things around them to some medium that seems to connect with others.  

3.  What do you aim to accomplish in science?  
To better understand how the world works to a point of being more accurately predictive of what lies ahead.  
    What do you think artists aim to accomplish in art?  
To translate their experience into a medium that conveys their values and personal orientation towards others.  

4.  Do you think what you do is creative? If so, how? If not, why?  
Yes. Cumulatively, the bits of science construct an understanding of phenomenon. Creativity is figuring out how, with the product.  
    Do you think art is creative?  
Art is creative for the same reasons-- it is a way of possessing the ability to translate fundamentally personal feeling into a medium where others can share similar responses.  

5. To what degree do emotions play a role in your work at all?  
To a considerable degree. Anything to which you don't bring passion to is not likely to be engaging. A deep underlying care gives you persistence in science. It's the thrill of discovery, understanding, making connections, and especially bringing other to see/connect with them. It's the thrill that drives.  

6.  What is beauty?  
I grope for what is beauty-- a personal feeling of satisfaction, a harmonic 
resonance with observations that inspire a sense of warmth, harmony, balance, 
appropriateness, and perfection. Back to the question on emotions! It has to feel that way, not just because of what others define as beautiful. Yes, in the passion and the hurdles you go through that carry you through the creative process. More of a focus on feeling and a personal subject matter than science often allows itself.  
    Do you find beauty in science?  
Oh, sure! It lies in the sense of a completed quest, the generation of understanding that leads you into a new circumstance and recognize what's 
going on around you-- that's a feeling of warmth. It's not hard to see the connection in environmental circumstance.  
    Do you find beauty in art?  
Sure! The sense of a connection. Watch a dance, seeing the fine arts, hearing 
music-- these make the hairs on the back of your neck tingle. You and the artist recognize a common theme you've connected over.  

7.  Do you think art and science are related? If so, how? If not, why? 
I think they are similar, they are both ways to clarify our understanding of life and experiences. Also, both have the goal of translating one person's perspective that will connect with other people's stories.  

8. Which do you think plays a greater role: science in art or art in science?  
Must we rank them? No question that science&technology are in art's creativity&thought, but by the same token the ability to visualize problems and create effective pathways to a solution  and express results in simple terms is art in science. In both cases, other fields form the process or the specific subject.  

9.   When you are observing nature what thoughts come to mind?  
You're asking an ecologist that <laugh>? How enormously, incredibly complex and interconnected even the simplest of natural settings are. I can't help also, at the same time, seeing our role in nature but also the fundamental integrity of nature operating without us. 

10.   What do you consider success in your field?  
When you feel as though you are, through your studies and observations, coming towards a better understanding of what you're looking at. It's when you look at your watch and realize it's two hours later than you thought it was.  
  

1.  What is your definition of science?  
The study of variety of systems present in the physical environment.  
    What is your definition of art?  
The expression of movement, emotions, and feelings.  

2.  Why do you think scientists and artists are drawn to their fields?  
I personally have a bias from a course for PhDs called Cognitive Learning Theory, which discusses two ways that people learn and process information. One way is called Practical Application, which is the If/Then circumstance-- more scientific. The other way is the Tree-Like Branches of Interrogation, which is more like an artistic approach.  
    What drew you towards your field?  
Natural ability, I was always good at sports. I admired teachers and coaches, and respected them. I also grew up in a family that encouraged participation in whatever we wanted.  

3.  What do you aim to accomplish in your field?  
Career goal consistency, to provide excellent opportunities for young men and women, to participate in sport benefits and lessons in sports.  
    What do you think scientists aim to accomplish in science?  
They are constantly trying to understand how systems work, change, and respond to stimuli. In an effort to improve life in general health, and physical environment.  
    What do you think artists aim to accomplish in art?  
Artists try to express how people get in touch with their inner-self, and present their present feelings and emotions.  

4.  Do you think what you do is creative? If so, how? If not, why? 
What I do as an administrator is creative, but people who participate in these sports I administer is creative, also, because of the way you approach the game, mentally and physically. It's an extension of who you are, within or after a performance can be somewhat creative.  

5.  To what degree do emotions play a role in your work at all?  
Response to situations that occur, but not a lot of emotions are needed for budgeting and scheduling, it's when dealing with people and groups-- working with staff to set goals. Emotions play a big role when setting goals-- it comes back into play with dealing with discipline, parents, joy with coaches and students doing well, pain of those who aren't.  

6.  What is beauty?  
Whatever each individual thinks it is. I probably could not define it for myself, and I wouldn't even try to define it for anyone else.  
    Do you find beauty in science?  
In some ways. Example: ecological changes in physical environment.  
    Do you find beauty in art?  
Absolutely. To see someone perform a sports related skill is beautiful, just like 
song, writings, paintings, and so on.  

7.  Do you think art and science are related? If so, how? If not, why?  
Anytime there is an intermingling. Some artist would approach a work with angles, shapes, and dimensions which are related to math and science.  

8.  Which do you think plays a greater role: science in art or art in science?  
From the way I think and learn, art plays a bigger role in science.  

9.  When you are observing nature what thoughts come to mind?  
Being observant. How lucky I am to be alive and to have an appreciation acts as an encouragement for me to keep life in perspective, and not take things too seriously.  

10.  What do you consider success in your field?  
When I see student athletes feeling fulfilled from their participation in sports.