My first bi­ol­ogy lab was the neigh­bor­hood pond. I've al­ways had the urge to ex­plore wild places and a drive to col­lect and ob­serve some of that wilder­ness. Grow­ing up, I made aquar­i­ums, stock­ed with every­thing from fish to snap­ping tur­tles. Later on I re­al­ized that I was only be­gin­ning to ex­plore the bio­di­ver­sity all...