52 Quotes by Jim Bishop

We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

Mulligan: Invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more 20-yard grounder.

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

We took two of the kids up to the flight deck, and that made their day,

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).

While not being able to burn debris may inconvenience some individuals, holding off from burning until fire conditions are less dangerous makes good sense.

The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.

What was unexpected was the quantity of iron we found in the samples. Perhaps iron triggered the bloom. Was it from Asian dust as many has widely believed, or did it come from somewhere else?