Monday, 23 August 2021

Amazing Story About What Entomologist Lynn Kimsey Recorded in San Francisco Bay 50 Years Ago

Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're influenced by Jacques Cousteau, and encouraged by your high school biology teacher. So you launch a project to collect, record and sketch the intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Bay. And 50 years later, your work is published and hailed as "legacy data," with scientists keenly interested in what invasive species were there. That's what UC Davis entomologist Lynn Kimsey did. Kimsey, now...


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