Scott Veirs was born Chicago, Illinois, during the spring of 1970 to Val and
Leslie Veirs.  At age 2 he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he
learned to marvel at mountains.  Upon earning a diploma from Palmer High School
in 1988, he studied at Stanford University for 4 years, ultimately becoming the
first student to be graduated as an Earth Systems major.  His experience
studying deep sea sediment with Alan Mix as a REU participant at Oregon State
University during the summer of 1989 marked the beginning of his interest in
becoming and oceanographer.  From 1992-1995, Scott engaged further marine
endeavors: he launched balloons in the equatorial Pacific from a Chinese ship
during the TOGA/COARE in 1992; he sailed aboard the Schooner Shenandoah in
1993; and he studied satellite oceanography during the 1994 NASA Graduate
Student Summer Program in Earth System Sciences.  Based on advice in
serendipitous correspondence with James Baker, as well as visionary
conversations with John Delaney, Scott became a graduate student in the School
of Oceanography at the University of Washington.  He participated in the Mixing
Zephyrs cruises during the summer of 1995, and under the guidance of Russell
McDuff and Marvin Lilley gained a Masters degree in the fall of 1997.  He then
took a leave of absence to teach oceanography at San Francisco State University
and the Sea Education Association.  In the winter of 1999-2000, he returned to
Seattle with his wife, Annie Reese, to complete his doctoral degree in
oceanography.  His permanent email address is scott@econscience.org.