Instagram Account

To help show more people what we do and how interesting nature is we have created an Instagram account for our lab.  You can find it @root_conservation on the app, and with #rootlabratory search.  Here is a link to it on the web: https://www.instagram.com/root_conservation/

Remember we also have a lab web page as well: Root Lab Webpage

Darwin Day

Today is "Darwin Day", the 207th birthday of Darwin, the scientist most notably associated with evolution.  There are a number of other famous scientists that don't get their birthdays recognized, a short list would be:
Wallace: was also working on evolution at the same time as Darwin
Hooke: discovery of the cell
MacAurthor & Wilson: Island Biogeography
Watson, Crick, Franklin & Gosling: DNA
Fisher: population genetics
Leeuwenhoek: Microbiology
Linnaeus: classification of species
Mendel: genetics
Leopold: wildlife conservation
Soule: conservation biology

So remember, just because we celebrate one scientist today, it takes all kinds of scientists to help understand the world we live in.