[1] Bower is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
[2][6][7] Bower goes on research cruises to retrieve the floats and deploy equipment.
[5][8] Her group has deployed hundreds of RAFOS floats in the Arctic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, among other locations.
[10] Bower is legally blind, having lost much of her sight in the past twenty years to juvenile macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, and still has some light perception.
[3] In 2007, Bower founded OceanInsight, an education outreach program for the blind and visually impaired.