Marine Environments of Palau
Patrick L. Colin earned his M.S. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) in Marine Sciences at the University of Miami Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, working on the biology of western Atlantic reef fishes. In 1979 he moved to the Pacific, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, and later to Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia. While at Enewetak in 1983 he built an epoxy fiberglass aircraft, called a COZY, which he still uses today in Palau for vertical and oblique aerial photography (the eye in the sky ). He has spent extensive time underwater and in the air collecting information for this volume. Dr. Colin is one of the most experienced scientific divers in the world, working from shallow-water habitats to deep technical diving depths, as well as piloting and collecting from submersibles.