Oscar W Johnson Author

Oscar W. Johnson is the world expert on Pacific Golden-Plovers. An affiliate research scientist in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University, he became fascinated with plovers while working in the Marshall Islands and hasstudied them since 1979. Johnson conducts his research throughout the Pacific and in Alaska. Susan Scott writes the "Ocean Watch" column for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and has written seven books about nature in Hawai'i. Her newspaper columns about K?lea generate more reader e-mail than all other subjects combined. Scott shares Johnson's fascination with these extraordinary birds and has followed his research for over three decades.