On some workdays, Milton S. Love happily sinks to the bottom of the sea in a contraption the size of a telephone booth turned on its side. With only a clammy mat to lie on, for a break he gets to sit upright while trying not to bump his head on the three-foot high ceiling. Through a tiny hole, Milton spends a couple of blissful hours counting fish, speaking aloud the names and sizes he sees as a video camera rolls. In other words, Love loves fish.
Love, a biologist and rockfish (genus Sebastes) specialist at the Marine Science Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, even makes jokes about fish. When he gives technical talks, he is known to integrate so much humor that he is in demand as a stand-up at fundraising events. One of his rockfish seminars starts with a sing-along ?anthem? and a ?report? from the ...
