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• Edith Widder:

  I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we

• Edith Widder:

  I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

• Edith Widder:

  I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolo

• Edith Widder:

  I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me

• Edith Widder:

  We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there -

• Edith Widder:

  For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bi

• Edith Widder:

  During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would

• Edith Widder:

  I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an orga

• Edith Widder:

  I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich

• Edith Widder:

  It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of