Ed Sobey

Ed is curious - he wants to see the world and understand how it works. So he travels (a lot) and takes things apart. And, he enjoys putting things together from building robots to writing books.

As a math and physics major, Ed likes numbers. He's traveled to 120 countries on all 7 continents. He has directed 5 museums (including the National Inventors Hall of Fame) and he founded the National Toy Hall of Fame. Ed has published 35 books.

Holding a Ph.D. in oceanography he has participated in 25 expeditions, including doing research on sea ice in Antarctica, tracking whales from ocean kayaks, and SCUBA surveys of coral reefs. With his wife, he has sailed across the Pacific Ocean and has done several circumnavigations teaching oceanography for Semester at Sea. He lectures aboard cruise ships and is a Fellow Emeritus in The Explorers Club. The Fulbright Commission has awarded him grants to train science teachers in Bhutan, Sweden, and Indonesia.

An avid outdoors person, Ed runs, bikes, swims, kayaks, and SCUBA dives. Along the way he searches for the unusual gizmo to take apart or at least figure out how it works.