A clinical psychologist in private 
practice, a free-lance writer and pho- 
tographer, a charter-boat operator, 
and a commercial fisherman, James 
W. Greenough may best be described 
as an inveterate whale watcher. The 
waters ofif the coast of southeastern 
Alaska provide him with ample oppor- 
tunities to pursue the last activity. His 
professional research is on high-risk 
human health behaviors in Alaska. 
When not engaged with that project, 
he gardens, not too successfully, in the 
back of his home in Juneau. 
An architect with the firm of Mar- 
tin/Soderstrom/Matteson in Portland, 
Oregon, for twenty years, Willard K. 
Martin has been a student and practi- 
tioner of the art of watercolor for even 
longer — thirty years. Curiosity about 
plants, especially seed pod forms and 
dispersal mechanisms, combined with 
a love of travel, has taken him to 
“many parts of the world to search for 
and record unusual varieties of seed 
dispersal methods.” Selections of Mar- 
tin’s paintings appeared in the April 
1978 issue of Natural History (“Seeds 
in Flight”) and in the June-July 1973 
issue (“Seeds: Carriers of Life”). 
During a recent sabbatical, John 
Alcock hied himself to Australia to 
investigate a group of wasps he had 
read about. In Wyperfeld National 
Park, he met up with his quarry: thyn- 
nine wasps. The male wasps feed their 
mates before, during, and after copula- 
tion; feeding varies by species. Alcock 
determined to find out why they do so, 
rather than copulate and run as so 
many other male insects do. An asso- 
ciate professor of zoology at Arizona 
State University, Alcock’s research 
has been on insect reproductive behav- 
ior, with a primary interest in the evo- 
lution of diversity in insect mating 
systems. His major diversion is a back- 
yard garden in which, he claims, he 
grows an unrivaled crop of swiss chard. 
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