Author or listed author of many scientific papers listed here and author of “Loch Ness” a booklet for the general visitor and consultant to "Young Loch Ness Explorers". Established a permanent base at the Loch Ness Centre for University field trips and collaborations. Designed and established a deep water fixed sampling station in the northern basin of Loch Ness. Work now included all aspects of limnology as detailed below. Made a study of littoral, profundal and pelagic fish habitats in Loch Ness by gill and seine netting. Fish diets were defined through gut content and stable isotope analysis.

Loch Ness 'Monster' Is an April Fool's Joke". The New York Times. 2 April 1972. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 19 June 2021. There is not a lot of resident food in the loch. Virtually everything in Loch Ness has been recorded. There is nothing unusual there. It’s game over in that respect,” said Shine. “But that doesn’t mean the hunt for the Loch Ness Monster is over.”Bro, Lisa; O'Leary-Davidson, Crystal; Gareis, Mary Ann (2018). Monsters of Film, Fiction and Fable, the Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp.377–399. ISBN 9781527510890.

She described being in their car two to three miles north of Invermoriston, driving south towards Fort Augustus at around 48mph, when she saw a dark shape emerge from the water, travelling north toward Urquhart Castle, a favourite haunt of Nessie.Loch Ness Monster on Apple Maps? Why Satellite Images Fool Us". livescience. 22 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015 . Retrieved 21 April 2015. In the 1930s, big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell went to Loch Ness to look for the monster. Wetherell claimed to have found footprints, but when casts of the footprints were sent to scientists for analysis they turned out to be from a hippopotamus; a prankster had used a hippopotamus-foot umbrella stand. [150]