Alan D. Chave is a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has also been a Chartered Statistician (UK) since 2003 and has taught a graduate level course in statistics in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program for 20 years. For over 30 years, he has conducted research utilizing the magnetotelluric method, primarily in the oceans, and has pioneered research into producing modern MT processing methods. Dr Chave has also designed instrumentation for optical and chemical measurements in the ocean and has played a leadership role in developing long-term ocean observatories worldwide. He has been an editor of Journal of Geophysical Research and editor-in-chief of Reviews of Geophysics.