{"id":4013,"date":"2020-05-22T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:48:27","slug":"30-million-reasons-you-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/illuminations\/30-million-reasons-you-will-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"30 million reasons you will be missed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.22.7″ background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”0px|0px|3px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IiIsImFmdGVyIjoiIn19@” subhead=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9leGNlcnB0Iiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJ3b3JkcyI6IiIsInJlYWRfbW9yZV9sYWJlbCI6IiJ9fQ==@” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ _dynamic_attributes=”title,subhead” title_font=”|||||on|||” content_font=”||||||||” content_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.8)” content_font_size=”16px” subhead_font=”||on||||||” subhead_text_color=”#ffffff” subhead_font_size=”16px” background_color=”rgba(168,211,103,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”#000000″ background_color_gradient_end=”#003254″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/v4.boldsystems.org_7125_animalia.png” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TerryErwin-Main.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-Main” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ max_width=”95%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-20px||20px” box_shadow_style=”preset1″][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22.3″ custom_padding=”0|0px|7px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row module_class=” et_pb_row_fullwidth” _builder_version=”3.25″ width=”89%” width_tablet=”80%” width_phone=”” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” max_width=”89%” max_width_tablet=”80%” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”0|0px|27px|0px|false|false” make_fullwidth=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]Erwin supervising the trees at work, the Tiputini Research Station, Ecuador, 2013.<\/em>\n\nPHOTO CREDIT: Beulah Garner<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ specialty=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ specialty_columns=”3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”3.29.3″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”18px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone”]

T<\/span>he world lost a brilliant mind last week when Terry L. Erwin passed away on May 11, 2020, at the age of 79. Many among us in the scientific community feel this great loss, for you did not need to have personally known, or even have met Erwin to recognize the name or appreciate the significance of his work.<\/p>\n

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    Erwin not only published prolifically on beetle systematics – describing four tribes, 22 genera, and 439 species of Carabidae – but also tremendously influenced the way many think about biodiversity.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHe brought alive for many the far-off world and the mysteries therein of the neotropics,\u201d said Beulah Garner, Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum in London, and Erwin\u2019s colleague and friend of nine years. \u201cI think it was the first time anyone, through their scientific exploration, had made a place and a fauna at once seem magical, touchable, and quantifiable.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_padding=”||15px||false|false”]

    Erwin was serving as a research entomologist and curator of Coleoptera at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of Natural History<\/a> at the time of his death. He was a pioneer in neotropical conservation biology and canopy research, having developed the study of tree canopy insects into an academic discipline as early as 1974.<\/p>\n

    Notably, in his small paper<\/a> in 1982 that examined canopy beetles and host plant relationships to understand the number of species present in an acre of Panamanian forest, Erwin dramatically expanded our conception of terrestrial insect diversity.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TerryErwin-abstract.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-abstract” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px”]Graphical abstract of Erwin’s 1982 paper\nIMAGE CREDIT: Michelle Lynn D’Souza<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”]

    As a young graduate student interested in using DNA barcoding to evaluate insect diversity in Central America and to assess global diversity estimates, Erwin\u2019s work was a guidepost for my own research. His 1982 publication was particularly iconic. Ironically, it was in the last \u2018throwaway\u2019 paragraph (as he described it) – suggesting the presence of 30 million arthropod species, at the time estimated to be around one-and-a half million – that he sparked a global debate about the number of species on the planet.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    Even years later, he was enduring in his defense of the \u201830 million\u2019 estimate, according to Garner. His holistic approach to field biology, with Carabidae at its core, enabled him to understand the relatedness of species as well as the mechanisms that drive such incredible diversity so clearly. \u201cEven higher [than 30 million] he would say! And, having been in the field with him, with his meticulous observations of the microverse, his pioneering investigations into the forest canopy, I absolutely believe him,\u201d said Garner. \u201cThese were not assumptions from a dataset, a modelling outcome, these were from direct in-field observations: a true naturalist.\u201d While his estimate has been debated, refuted, and revised to approximately seven million arthropod species, the discussion remains active today.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TerryErwin-Figure1.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-Figure1″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px”]

    A true naturalist at home in the jungles of Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, 2018.
    PHOTO CREDIT: Beulah Garner<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”]

    While always having been interested in DNA-based techniques, it was not until much later in Erwin\u2019s career that he used it in his own work. Heavily involved in the field of systematics, he was among the first of those in the early 1980s that experienced its infusion with the beginnings of gene sequencing. While in its own right revolutionary, sequencing technology was just another tool to study the natural world, one that would eventually be replaced by the tricorder, Erwin explained to Dr. Bilgenur Baloglu, then a Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore studying chironomid diversity<\/a>, in an interview during the International Congress of Entomology in Florida in 2016. He was referring to DNA barcoding and the beginnings<\/a> of Drs. Paul Hebert and Dan Janzen\u2019s tests with Costa Rican moths.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.1″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    As noted by Dr. Scott Miller, science committee member of the International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL) and deputy undersecretary at the Smithsonian Institution, Erwin was always enthusiastic about collaborations between iBOL and the Smithsonian to barcode insect genera, such as that currently funded by the Global Genome Initiative (GGI)<\/a>.\u00a0He is the main reason that Carabid beetles were one of the first families covered under the project, contributing substantially to the species barcoded and deposited on the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD), according to Miller. He also collaborated with Dr. Carlos Garcia-Robledo and others at the Smithsonian on a series of papers on insect-host plant relationships, among many others<\/a>, that used DNA barcoding to identify the gut contents of insect herbivores<\/a> as well as egg and larval plant associations<\/a>\u00a0to reconstruct species interactions in tropical networks.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    Miller first began working with Erwin in 1986 at the Smithsonian Institution as a postdoctoral fellow. Together they had a vision that became the Biodiversity in Latin America Tropics (BIOLAT), a program based around standardized sampling, something that may seem logical now, but was novel in fields like entomology at the time, according to Miller.\u00a0Since then, a lot of other organizations have tried similar standardized programs but have struggled under the weight of the taxonomic impediment.\u00a0 \u201cWhen seen against this background, iBOL initiatives such as the Global Malaise Program<\/a> or BioAlfa<\/a> are truly amazing,\u201d said Miller. \u201cIt is most unfortunate that DNA barcoding was not available when Terry started canopy fogging!\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TerryErwin-Figure3.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-Figure3″ show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px”]

    Erwin canopy fogging at 4 a.m. at the\u00a0Onkone Gare camp, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, 2018.
    PHOTO CREDIT: Beulah Garner<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_padding=”||35px||false|false” custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”]

    From planning BIOLAT, to consulting for Biosphere 2<\/a> (the subject of the documentary \u2018Spaceship Earth\u2019), to the initial canopy fogging endeavour in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that eventually led to the Binatang Research Center<\/a> and the PNG insect ecology program, Erwin encouraged, guided, and inspired Miller\u2019s endeavours for years.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_testimonial author=”Dr. Scott Miller” job_title=”Science committee member of the International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL) and deputy undersecretary at the Smithsonian Institution” portrait_url=”data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjUwMCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUwMCA1MDAiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyI+CiAgICA8ZyBmaWxsPSJub25lIiBmaWxsLXJ1bGU9ImV2ZW5vZGQiPgogICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGZpbGw9IiNFQkVCRUIiIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNTAwdjUwMEgweiIvPgogICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eT0iLjEiIGZpbGw9IiMwMDAiIHg9IjY4IiB5PSIzMDUiIHdpZHRoPSIzNjQiIGhlaWdodD0iNTY4IiByeD0iMTgyIi8+CiAgICAgICAgPGNpcmNsZSBmaWxsLW9wYWNpdHk9Ii4xIiBmaWxsPSIjMDAwIiBjeD0iMjQ5IiBjeT0iMTcyIiByPSIxMDAiLz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+Cg==” portrait_width=”0px” portrait_height=”0px” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ position_font=”||on||||||” position_text_color=”#646564″ position_font_size=”15px”]

    Terry understood the importance of nurturing the next generation of talent, and especially the importance of diversifying the [scientific] pipeline.<\/p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    \u201cTerry understood the importance of nurturing the next generation of talent, and especially the importance of diversifying the [scientific] pipeline,\u201d says Miller. \u201cTerry was always eager to provide opportunities for young scientists, especially women, and people from developing countries.\u201d While working together at the Smithsonian, Miller recounts how Erwin always hosted interns and fellows, bringing them to meetings and conferences, and trying to connect them to future opportunities.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    Erwin had the greatest spirit of academic generosity, quick to provide advice, a reference from his encyclopedic library, or specimens for one’s own research, according to Garner. Erwin nurtured a passion for discovery in many students and inspired it in even more biologists. As he told Bilgenur back in 2016, you do not become a biologist if you are out for money, but you do it for the joy of being out in the field. \u201cFor me, the bottom line is if you like fieldwork, be a biologist. It\u2019s the best place to be,\u201d said Erwin in her interview. \u201cIf you are out in the rainforest, every single day, actually maybe every hour, there\u2019s a tremendous discovery. And that\u2019s what\u2019s really rewarding \u2013 discovery.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TerryErwin-Figure2.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-Figure2″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px”]

    Erwin hunting Carabidae near the\u00a0Tiputini Research Station, Ecuador, 2013.
    PHOTO CREDIT: Beulah Garner<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    In the field, Garner recounts, Erwin would wake early, sit by the Tiputini river with black coffee and binoculars, and study the jungle whilst it woke. \u201cCanopy fogging is a race to finish before the dawn and Terry was indefatigable,\u201d said Garner. \u201cIt\u2019s 4 a.m. in the primary jungles of South America, you\u2019re setting up your traps, and Terry is right beside you, overseeing operations as if the rainforest were his orchestra and he the conductor.\u201d In the evening after supper with head torch and aspirator, it would be time to go on a Carabidae hunt.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_testimonial author=”Beulah Garner” job_title=”Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum, London” portrait_url=”data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjUwMCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUwMCA1MDAiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyI+CiAgICA8ZyBmaWxsPSJub25lIiBmaWxsLXJ1bGU9ImV2ZW5vZGQiPgogICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGZpbGw9IiNFQkVCRUIiIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNTAwdjUwMEgweiIvPgogICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eT0iLjEiIGZpbGw9IiMwMDAiIHg9IjY4IiB5PSIzMDUiIHdpZHRoPSIzNjQiIGhlaWdodD0iNTY4IiByeD0iMTgyIi8+CiAgICAgICAgPGNpcmNsZSBmaWxsLW9wYWNpdHk9Ii4xIiBmaWxsPSIjMDAwIiBjeD0iMjQ5IiBjeT0iMTcyIiByPSIxMDAiLz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+Cg==” portrait_width=”0px” portrait_height=”0px” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ position_font=”||on||||||” position_text_color=”#646564″ position_font_size=”15px”]

    It\u2019s 4 a.m. in the primary jungles of South America, you\u2019re setting up your traps, and Terry is right beside you, overseeing operations, as if the rainforest were his orchestra and he the conductor.<\/p>[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”]

    He was fearless, saving Garner from a pack of marauding peccaries in Ecuador, as well as rescuing her from bivouacking army ants as they surrounded their camp in the dead of night. \u201cHe was and is the reason I endeavour to be a good field biologist,\u201d said Garner. \u201cHis compassion and consideration and genuine every-day awe for the natural world is a method to live and work by.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TerryErwin-Figure6.png” title_text=”TerryErwin-Figure6″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_font_size=”16px”]Beulah Garner (left) and Terry Erwin (right) inspecting the flight intercept traps,\u00a0Tiputini Research Station, Ecuador, 2013.\nPHOTO CREDIT: Dr. Kelly Swing<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    Erwin very much valued the natural world, possessing an astute understanding of it that unfortunately, he takes with him. He feared having species reduced to just a sequence and believed that the rich natural history and the awe that the living world inspires in us needed to be accounted for as well, sentiments that led him to catalyze the Encyclopedia of Life <\/a>(EOL) in 2004, according to Nana Naisbitt, EOL co-catalyst, founder of Chalkboard<\/a>, and Erwin\u2019s dear friend of 22 years. The EOL makes knowledge about life on Earth globally accessible and has had a long-standing collaboration with BOLD.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    As Naisbitt explained, Erwin was a profound mentor, one who changed the course of her life and the lives of many others through her work and her connection to him. He effectively snowballed Naisbitt\u2019s career as a science champion, instrumental in her founding the Pinhead Institute<\/a>, a science education non-profit and Smithsonian Affiliate. He was also key to many community outreach and mentorship programs while she worked as Executive Director of the Telluride Science Research Center<\/a>, a job she got because of her work as the director of Pinhead. \u201cIt\u2019s just impossible to say how many people he impacted,\u201d said Naisbitt. \u201cTerry liked to say that he plants seeds \u2013 ideas in students \u2013 and watches them grow. He planted countless seeds that grew strong and bright.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    In Naisbitt\u2019s assessment, Erwin was able to help so many people flourish because he possessed a phenomenal gift in the way he supported them and gave them confidence without being intrusive. \u201cHe connected me to the right people, then showed up for and supported me. Most times he would just sit there quietly in meetings and let me do the talking,\u201d said Naisbitt. \u201cHis reputation and presence were enough \u2013 it conveyed the message, \u2018I anoint this person\u2019. In that way, he was so unbelievably respectful.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″]

    Naisbitt said that she had the impression Erwin believed he stood on the shoulders of giants. She described to me this image she had of him, of someone reaching down and pulling up younger scientists to stand on his shoulders. \u201cAnd he did that so well. He did it over and over again, with immense generosity and without ego. And that<\/em> is so rare.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Nana Naisbitt” job_title=”Founder of Chalkboard” portrait_url=”data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjUwMCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUwMCA1MDAiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyI+CiAgICA8ZyBmaWxsPSJub25lIiBmaWxsLXJ1bGU9ImV2ZW5vZGQiPgogICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGZpbGw9IiNFQkVCRUIiIGQ9Ik0wIDBoNTAwdjUwMEgweiIvPgogICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGZpbGwtb3BhY2l0eT0iLjEiIGZpbGw9IiMwMDAiIHg9IjY4IiB5PSIzMDUiIHdpZHRoPSIzNjQiIGhlaWdodD0iNTY4IiByeD0iMTgyIi8+CiAgICAgICAgPGNpcmNsZSBmaWxsLW9wYWNpdHk9Ii4xIiBmaWxsPSIjMDAwIiBjeD0iMjQ5IiBjeT0iMTcyIiByPSIxMDAiLz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+Cg==” portrait_width=”0px” portrait_height=”0px” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ position_font=”||on||||||” position_text_color=”#646564″ position_font_size=”15px”]

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    When Dr. Marlin Rice, back in a 2015 interview<\/a>, asked Erwin how he would like others to remember him, his answer was simple \u2013 by what his students do. The influence a mentor has on their students and them on theirs, he described, is an unbroken chain that keeps connecting generations of thinkers. Erwin told Rice, \u201cThere\u2019s this chain all the way from the great old-timers down through George [Ball \u2013 his Ph.D. mentor] and his students and what I\u2019d like to do is to keep that chain going.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Indeed, Erwin\u2019s brilliance, passion, and dedication for science extended those chains far beyond his students and colleagues, to countless others across space, like me. As the value of his research will certainly endure, those chains will also extend across time. Erwin was undoubtedly one of the rare ones among us whose influence has had, and will continue to have, an extraordinary reach.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_css_main_element=”margin:auto;”][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.21.4″ custom_margin=”||1px”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#003254″ text_orientation=”center”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9kYXRlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJkYXRlX2Zvcm1hdCI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJjdXN0b21fZGF0ZV9mb3JtYXQiOiIifX0=@[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/barcodebulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-DSouza.pdf” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Download PDF” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”12px” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_bg_color=”#003254″ button_icon=”%%26%%” button_icon_color=”#ffffff” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ box_shadow_horizontal=”3px” box_shadow_vertical=”11px”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.4.7″][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_3″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”3.29.3″ text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark”][\/et_pb_sidebar][et_pb_sidebar area=”et_pb_widget_area_1″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”3.21.4″][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.7″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ text_font=”||on||||||” text_text_color=”#646564″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|||31px|false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”|||27px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone”]

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