Long-term Research

Abstract

IN earlier issues Broad-Spectrum-Academics’ Essays have covered Cane Toads (Bufo marinus), squirrels, the media and the universe. Rick Shine wrote as a herpetologist and as a leader in ecological field-research while Fred Watson wrote as an astronomer engaging us with rocket science, telescopes and a squirrel living in an Arizonan mountain-top. Both these luminaries have one obvious thing in common with the author in this issue: they have been doing it for a long time.