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Although it would be hard to pick out a “favorite” meeting, the one that everyone
seems to recall best was our 1985 meeting on Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals
(Atema et al. 1988 ). The idea for this meeting arose one snowy Saturday morning at
Art’s home in Rockville, MD, during a visit by Dick. Helen had made French toast
for breakfast (that has no signifi cance other than we remember this trivial detail!)
and we were sitting around before taking Dick to the airport. For some reason, we
started to cogitate about the need for a meeting that would focus on all fi sh senses
rather than just hearing and how valuable it would be to get people interested in
different senses to share ideas, providing a much broader understanding of the sensory lives of fi shes. Within an hour (and this is not an exaggeration), we had come
up with the basic plan for the meeting, had ideas on funding, and decided we needed
a collaborating organizer who was studying another sense. We decided that the ideal
person would be someone neither of us knew well, Jelle Atema. We called Jelle the
following Monday, he accepted the idea instantly, and, besides everything else, Jelle
has become a close and very valued friend to both of us.
The meeting was a resounding success, bringing an exciting group of people to
Mote for fi ve days of sharing knowledge and ideas (Fig. 7 ). Everyone present felt
Fig. 7 Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals meeting in 1985. We cannot recall who labeled this picture, and so we “apologize” to many of our colleagues and friends who are in the photo but not identifi ed. Among those not specifi cally identifi ed are: Jelle Atema. Perry Gilbert, Jim Kendall, Art Myrberg,
Pete Rogers, Tony Hawkins (but see Fig. 8 ), Arie Schuijf, Olav Sand, Eric Denton, and John Gray
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…
Although it would be hard to pick out a “favorite” meeting, the one that everyone
seems to recall best was our 1985 meeting on Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals
(Atema et al. 1988 ). The idea for this meeting arose one snowy Saturday morning at
Art’s home in Rockville, MD, during a visit by Dick. Helen had made French toast
for breakfast (that has no signifi cance other than we remember this trivial detail!)
and we were sitting around before taking Dick to the airport. For some reason, we
started to cogitate about the need for a meeting that would focus on all fi sh senses
rather than just hearing and how valuable it would be to get people interested in
different senses to share ideas, providing a much broader understanding of the sensory lives of fi shes. Within an hour (and this is not an exaggeration), we had come
up with the basic plan for the meeting, had ideas on funding, and decided we needed
a collaborating organizer who was studying another sense. We decided that the ideal
person would be someone neither of us knew well, Jelle Atema. We called Jelle the
following Monday, he accepted the idea instantly, and, besides everything else, Jelle
has become a close and very valued friend to both of us.
The meeting was a resounding success, bringing an exciting group of people to
Mote for fi ve days of sharing knowledge and ideas (Fig. 7 ). Everyone present felt
Fig. 7 Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals meeting in 1985. We cannot recall who labeled this picture, and so we “apologize” to many of our colleagues and friends who are in the photo but not identifi ed. Among those not specifi cally identifi ed are: Jelle Atema. Perry Gilbert, Jim Kendall, Art Myrberg,
Pete Rogers, Tony Hawkins (but see Fig. 8 ), Arie Schuijf, Olav Sand, Eric Denton, and John Gray
It Started in Hawai’i Kai: Reminiscences of 43 Years (and Counting)…