On September 18, 2024, Eve Austin interviewed Dr. Dwayne Meadows remotely via Zoom for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami oral history project. Born in 1966 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Meadows developed an early passion for marine biology through competitive swimming and scuba diving. He pursued a degree in biology at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a PhD at Oregon State University, where he studied coral reef fish in Panama.

On September 23, 2024, Eve Austin interviewed Dr. Vasily Titov for a tsunami-focused NOAA oral history project. Dr. Titov, a research scientist at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington, has dedicated nearly three decades to tsunami science. Born in Russia, he pursued an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Novosibirsk, later specializing in numerical modeling for tsunami propagation.