I enjoyed Andy Dobson's (presumably self-) depiction associated with
a book review (Canfield MR, editor (2011) Field Notes on Science and
Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) in PLoS Biology:
About the Author
Andy Dobson is serving a life sentence for ecology at Princeton
University. His parole conditions allow him to teach students about
parasitology in Panama and the ecology of savannas in East Africa. In
alternate years he takes a new cohort of graduate students on a
total-emersion tropical ecology course in the Neotropics. A plea
bargain with the NSF and the NIH permits him to undertake research on
pathogens in the Serengeti, in salt marshes along the coast of
California, and in the eyes of house finches in the backyards of New
England. More recently he has become interested in how food webs will
respond to climate change, particularly in the High Arctic.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001496
