New biology professor Scott Eckert once lived underwater for ten days, spending six hours every night at the bottom of the ocean. For four months he lived in a tent on ocean ice in Antarctica, studying emperor penguins and watching killer whales whip beneath the surface. And every summer, Eckert spends two weeks a month on the island of Trinidad, monitoring leatherback sea turtle hatcheries and working to stop their accidental capture. So what’s he doing in Elsah, Illinois?