CONTENTS

	Quotes
	Foreword
	Dedication
	Acknowledgments
	Chapter 1       The Beginning of a Lifelong Involvement with Pollution:  A Major Threat to Sustainability
	Chapter 2       Coping with Rejected College Admission Applications:  Getting into Swarthmore College
	Chapter 3       Encountering Disciplinary (i.e., Tribal) and Ideological Sanctions
	Chapter 4       The Perpetual Balancing Act:  Economics, Technology, and Ecological Support Systems
	Chapter 5       The Joys of Being on a Team of Scientists
	Chapter 6       Working for a Woman Scientist in the Late 1940s
	Chapter 7       Going From Reactive to Predictive Pollution Assessment
	Chapter 8       The Field Station Era
	Chapter 9       Biological Monitoring Research
	Chapter 10     The Graduate Student Era:  1966-1997
	Chapter 11     The Undergraduate Research Era:  1961-1997
	Chapter 12     Embracing Transdisciplinarity
	Chapter 13     Leaving a Habitable Planet for Our Descendants:  The Quest for Sustainability
	Chapter 14     My Guardian Spirits
	Chapter 15     Academic Awards:  Are They Ever Too Late?
	Chapter 16     Writing
	Chapter 17     Happiness in an Unsustainable World
	Chapter 18     Facing Mortality in the Retirement Years
	Chapter 19     Research, Lectures, Performances, and Other Academic Communications
	Chapter 20     Leaving the Loop
	Chapter 21     Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Limnology Department
	Chapter 22     Coping with Belittlers
	Chapter 23     Retirement
	Chapter 24     Epilogue
	Chapter 25     Postponing the Quest for Sustainability: Survival First - Then Sustainability
	Chapter 26     My First Full Time Job
	Chapter 27     My First Experience in a Research Laboratory
	Chapter 28     Crawling Over Ice-covered Snow with Jeannie
	Chapter 29     The Cairns Family Begins Three Decades at Field Stations
	Chapter 30     The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
	Chapter 31     The Most Important Day of My Life
	Chapter 32     Co-Evolving With Jeannie
	Chapter 33    Becoming a Risk Taker
	Chapter 34    The Ecosystems in My Life
	Chapter 35    Transcendental Fly Fishing for Trout
	Chapter 36    Six-Word Stories
	Chapter 37    Our World War II Low-Budget Marriage and Honeymoon
	Chapter 38    My Boyhood Home
	Chapter 39    Greeting Ritual for Advanced Alzheimers
	Chapter 40    Changes in Public Attitude Toward Science During My Lifetime
	Chapter 41    Growing Up in a Small Factory Town During the Great Depression
	Chapter 42    Closing a Lifetime of Doors
	Chapter 43    Living with Lymphedema
	Chapter 44    The Catherwood Amazon River Survey: Non-scientific Memories from a Distant Past
	Chapter 45    The Long Goodbye
	Chapter 46    Magical Moments and Places: Part 1
	Chapter 47    Magical Moments and Places: Part 2
	Chapter 48    Magical Moments and Places: Part 3
	Chapter 49    Magical Moments and Places: Part 4
	Chapter 50    Second Epilogue