Who s on the right track? 21 April 2021
Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr Associates, looks into the increased popularity of crawler-mounting and more specifically of telecrawlers. He also makes a comparison between telecrawlers and rough terrains in regards to market demand and day-to-day lifting work.
Fifteen years ago, Phil Bishop, then the widely-respected editor of this journal, analysed the issue of why Europe’s crane buyers made different product choices from the rest of the world.
For the main part, Phil’s analysis discussed the all terrain and truck crane buying preferences of Europe’s buyers compared with the rough terrain preferences in North America and Japan. Much of the discussion focussed on types of crane buyer, owner-operator crane hirers buying cranes for local ‘taxi-crane’ service versus longer term contract hires in America and the need for more compact small rough terrain cranes in Japan.
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Field Trips of Otago Uni
critic.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from critic.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SunLive - Papamoa frog invasion - The Bay s News First
sunlive.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunlive.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After a brief illness and under hospice care, Phil Bishop, a zoology professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and a globally renowned champion of amphibian conservation, died on January 23. He was 63 years old.
Rob Gandola, the senior science officer for the Herpetological Society of Ireland, tells
The Scientist that Bishop “was a gentleman and an incredible scientist with an unparalleled and infectious enthusiasm for the amphibians of the world, and their conservation. He will be sorely missed.”
Bishop, who was born in Devon in southern England, attended University College Cardiff (now known as Cardiff University) in Wales for his undergraduate degree in zoology and stayed at the institution to get his master’s in parasitology, graduating in 1980. His PhD research in zoology was done at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. There, he studied a variety of aspects of frog behavior, with his thesis on the social aspects of th