The importation of the whale sharks from Taiwan, which was overseen by Jeff Swanagan and staff biologists, was "top secret" and had never been attempted previously.

"You can play your own natural symphony," a staff biologist, Leah Filo, said.

VWS has five full-time staff biologists, together with seasonal interns, monitoring, tracking and researching endangered species, songbirds and butterflies.

Additionally, my staff marine biologist and I have been actively participating in Long Island Sound forums over the years.

"One reason is that they are very difficult to capture and maintain alive given their soft bodies," said Robert Nawojchik, staff biologist at the Mystic Aquarium.

Roger Ogren, a staff biologist, said he had counted more than 600 chum, well beyond the 1993 record of 50.

A staff biologist, Rob Nawojchik, teaches schoolchildren and college students, as well as running a marine biology course for the aquarium's volunteers.

This month staff biologists and trained volunteers led the largest dolphin rescue effort in the foundation's 10-year history.

With another staff biologist and a hydrologist, they can in the course of these surveys weave in smaller studies, some of which have been published in scientific journals.

In the Activity area there are tanks which staff biologists use for demonstrations.