Grant Deane received B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, and the D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 1989. He is a Researcher with the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA. His work over the past 25 years focuses on breaking waves, underwater acoustics, and glacier acoustics research in the Arctic. He seeks to understand how ocean/atmosphere and ice/ocean interactions can be measured and monitored using underwater sound and what this means for gas exchange, aerosol generation, melting glaciers and sea level rise. Dr. Deane is a fellow of the Acoustical Society, received the A.B. Wood Medal in 1997, and the Sagar Geophysics Prize from Auckland University in 1986.