Shayle Matsuda

My favorite part of my job is I'm answering it in two parts, which I know you're not supposed to do.

No, answer it in however many parts you want.

Like, it's the daily life in the people I work with, for sure, like in the community.

When you're working on an issue that's this important, people are really passionate and really excited.

And because we're trying to solve something really quickly, it's a very creative place to be.

Like, people are coming up with really creative, out-of-the-box solutions and being able to be part of new technologies that are coming in, new ways of addressing these questions, trying just crazy ideas that just might work.

Maybe it's something that we might not have had the luxury to do on a system that is doing fine somewhere.

But that kind of creative thinking and passionate environment is a really exciting place to be.

So that's something great.

And then also, I take a boat to work every day.

I can just walk into the water and see the reef.

While that's amazing for research and asking questions, it's also just a luxury.

I feel so lucky to be able to be in a place where my study environment is right here and I can appreciate just the beauty of the reef on an everyday basis.

I feel like we're really chill and they're also super stressed out.