I really enjoyed seeing Ken-ichi's talk, and I'm happy to have met him and spent a little time in the field in Texas with him a few years ago.
I was trying to think of some analogy for the role that Ken-ichi and Scott Loarie have played in my life and the lives of so many other people around the world. In this modern communication milieu, perhaps they might be likened (lichened?) to a David Attenborough and Roger Tory Peterson for the next generation.