[PCA] NEWS: As species decline, so do the scientists who name them

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/latest-endangered-species-scientists-count-endangered-species/

As species decline, so do the scientists who name them
PBS NewsHour
BY Jenny Marder  May 7, 2014 at 5:22 PM EDT

Quentin Wheeler’s career can be traced back to a fascination with pond
scum. Now president of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and
Forestry, Wheeler was 8 when he first peered through a microscope and saw
the single-celled organisms known as protozoa bobbing around. So intrigued
was he by the critters, he began to collect his own water samples from
central Ohio ponds and streams near his home, filling gallon jugs with
thousands of specimens. He learned to melt an eye dropper with a bunsen
burner and to draw out the glass into a long, hair-thin tube, which he then
used to isolate single protozoa cells. By the time he was in middle school,
he was selling these cultures to local high school biology classes.

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