Steven H. D. Haddock

Steven Haddock is a Research Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and adjunct Associate Professor at U.C. Santa Cruz, studying bioluminescence and biodiversity of marine zooplankton. He uses blue-water diving and submersibles to study "gelatinous zooplankton" -- jellyfish-like creatures.

He started programming in BASIC on an Apple ][ and began his undergraduate studies in engineering before deciding to change fields. He took this programming background with him to his graduate studies in Marine Biology, where he quickly realized the advantages that computing skills offered and felt compelled to help foster these abilities in others. With his research collaborator Casey Dunn, they wrote Practical Computing for Biologists to help make life easier for scientists.

His interest in education extends to his Bioluminescence Web Page and the Jellywatch.org citizen-science web site.