Marty Buzas is Curator of Foraminifera, Senior Geologist in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History. He holds a B.A. from University of Connecticut (1958); M.Sc. from Brown University (1960) and Ph.D. from Yale University (1963). Marty’s research interests include: Quantitative understanding of the distribution of organisms in small and large amounts of space and time, benthic foraminifera and statistics. He has received the Paleontological Society Medal, Cushman Award and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Paleontological Society and the Cushman Foundation. Buzas has published scores of papers in major journals as well as a dozen books. The text-book (1997) with L.C. Hayek “Surveying Natural Populations” is in its fourth printing and is listed as a classic in biology.