ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 4 -- The University of Georgia issued the following news release:
Nick Foukal's fascination with the ocean began decades ago, on the waters off the coast of Nahant, Massachusetts, a 3,000-resident beach town 13 miles north of Boston. He remembers spending summers taking the family's rowboat out with his brother, fishing and setting lobster traps.
But beyond catching crustaceans, Foukal was never particularly interested in the biological side of oceanography. It was physics that caught the attention of Foukal, who is now a physical oceanographer at the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and an assistant professor in the Department of Marine Sciences in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences....