"Who could ask for a better 12 years?? I am leaving VENUS with such a wealth of memories, experiences, new knowledge and cakes consumed.

It has been an incredible privilege to work with the talented group of people—both the Team and the Users—that took a sketch on a blackboard to a complex network of instrumentation, cabling, connectors, computers, programming and data products: VENUS. Innovation, trouble-shooting and crisis management, both on land and at sea, were tools well-honed by the truly amazing staff (we earned the cakes).

I loved being part of solutions as ideas coalesced from all directions in...