Windsurfing inspired Emmanuel Boss to become a physical oceanographer. What beaches have you been to and what do you enjoy doing there? Windsurfing is not the usual way to find a science …
Physical Oceanographers study the physical aspects of the Earth’s oceans (water movement, heat content, sound and light propagation). Emmanuel Boss looks at the ways light and sound interact with ocean water to infer the quantity and characteristics of material (algae, plankton, sediments, etc.) contained in the oceans over time.