Margot Gerritsen, a faculty member in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, admits that the population of the world is increasing at alarming rates and with that an ever increasing hunger of energy. Unfortunately, she believes that an awareness of energy issues, such as conservation,  in the public is severely lacking.  

With the creation of Smart Energy, she hopes to combat this problem by discussing new ideas and technologies from renewable sources like wind, solar, and tidal energy with the world's best scientists, engineers and policy makers, as well as the general media, and in turn, educating the public with her findings, data, and research.

It's obvious she's well on her way, and doing her great job! The Reef Tank hopes to take part.  We had the opportunity to ask Margot about her mission and how marine energy factors into it all.