Karl Kjer is a freelance academic writer and a visiting professor at Rutgers University, where he has been in the Department of Biological Sciences in August of 2016.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and has been fascinated by the natural world since childhood; he has happy memories of tramping around undeveloped areas with his dog, catching snakes and frogs. “I love field work, and organizing collecting trips,” he says. “Field work brings DNA workers closer to their organisms. Understanding organisms in their natural habitat helps me ask questions that plastic tubes in the freezer cannot provide.”
During his career, he has performed field work in Costa Rica, and planned and led field expeditions in Puerto Rico, Australia, and South Africa. Karl Kjer has collected in Southern China, Eastern Russia, and Oaxaca, Mexico. He has traveled the length of the Baja peninsula, collecting lizards. He has also collected specimens in Japan, in the redwoods north of San Francisco, and in the Sonora Pass.
Karl Kjer is also a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History (the Smithsonian), and a founding member of the 1KITE initiative, an international effort to study more than one thousand insect species.
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