Samuel S. Urmy received the Bachelor of Science degree in Earth systems from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2008, the Master of Science degree in aquatic and fishery sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in marine and atmospheric sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 2017. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, he is currently a Research Fisheries Biologist, NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, USA. He is a Marine Ecologist and Biological Oceanographer and his research interests include how marine animals move through and inhabit their patchy unpredictable environment. To get answers to these questions, he uses active remote sensing (radar and sonar), modeling, and ecological theory. He has conducted field work in a variety of systems, from zooplankton in alpine lakes, to seabirds at the ocean's surface, to lanternfish in the mesopelagic zone.