40 UNDER FORTY: NICOLE GUNTER.

One piece of research on which Gunter was lead author presented the first evidence dating dung beetle diversification to the Lower Cretaceous period, before the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. Gunter is an entomologist whose expertise is in the biology and evolutionary history of beetles - and most particularly, dung beetles. Gunter said planetariums represent "an excellent way to display large data sets, and not just for astronomy data, but for teaching Earth and biological sciences.". [Extracted from the article]