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She's aware that she has unique skills that set her apart and she uses them to further her creative projects.

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She's aware that she has unique skills that set her apart and she uses them to further her creative projects.

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She builds on her own natural inclinations and passion for the subject of Oceanography to be a pioneer in her field.

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She builds on her own natural inclinations and passion for the subject of Oceanography to be a pioneer in her field.

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She's not afraid to push boundaries within Marine Ecological research.

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She's not afraid to push boundaries within Marine Ecological research.

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Kelly's family background includes her father, a mechanic, teaching her how to "fix just about everything." 

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Kelly's family background includes her father, a mechanic, teaching her how to "fix just about everything." 

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This learned skill from her family sets her apart from many other research biologists/ecologists, they don't include mechanical studies in general marine biology classes!

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When I was little I dreamt of having a job like Kelly's, so seeing someone do something so creative, interesting, and important for the environment really grabbed my attention.

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Marine Biologist Kelly Benoit-Bird: 2010 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

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Kelly wanted to study Marine Ecology in a new way. She says in her interview that the systems she wished to study were near impossible to personally access, but nevertheless she persisted. She wasn't held back by the limitations of the old technology, or the fear of her research being too edgy to be funded, and she created new systems to study ecological systems that had barely been touched on before.

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"I love what I do and I'm always amazed that someone pays me to do my job. I certainly don't think of it as a job."
[that is definitely the face of someone who enjoys their job]

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Kelly has built off older types of underwater sonar prototypes to create new versions to track the food chains and behaviors of marine life. She saw a need and filled it by creating a new mechanism. Filling a need falls into many definitions of creativity from the Starko reading, need is most often times the thing that sparks creativity.

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As a woman who studied in an intensive science field for my undergrad, I appreciate how passionate Kelly must be about her career. It is really difficult for women to achieve so much in male dominated scientific research fields, but Kelly has gone above and beyond.
If we separated Kelly from her natural passion for this subject and just left her innate intelligence and aptitude for the subject, Kelly would not have succeeded as far as she has. On the other hand, if Kelly were just left with her passion and did not have her other innate gifts of intelligence and aptitude she would have possibly ended up like me, not getting a Ph.D. in Marine Bio and going on to something that doesn't put up quite as much of a challenge.

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Combining her PH.D. in Marine Biology/Oceanography with her learned traits/natural aptitude for mechanical engineering and her passion for Marine Ecology, Kelly has created a new way to study food chains and ecological systems in the ocean using new sonar systems she had to create herself.

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Here she is in her Ted Talk, you can see how much passion she has for her topic and how knowledgeable she is.

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How giant sea creatures eat tiny sea creatures - Kelly Benoit-Bird

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-giant-sea-creatures-eat-tiny-sea-creatures-kelly-benoit-bird It's a paradox of ocean life: The largest mammals, like dolphins and whales, survive on the tiniest food, like krill. (Picture trying to make a full meal out of flying kernels of popcorn!) So how do these big animals gather enough food to live?

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Kelly created a self-contained underwater sonor robot, Dory, to go to where the organisms are, instead of studying them from the surface or using a drag net to pull the organisms up to us.

Here's her talk for the American Museum of Natural History explaining her acoustic research.

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Acoustic Exploration of the Oceans With Kelly Benoit Bird