Word: piercees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I told him that I was curious about butterflies," Pierce recalls. "He got a big smile on his face and ushered me right in."
Soon after, Pierce was spending the summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte, Colo.
"Since then, I've never looked back," Pierce says.
Pierce actually studied under Wilson when she was working towards her Ph.D. at Harvard. But the ant man in not Pierce's number one mentor. That distinction belongs to Remington, whose inspiring lecture on butterflies convinced Pierce to stop by his offices while she was an undergraduate.
Indeed, beginning with her first trip there, Pierce has developed an affinity for Australia, where she now spends three months of every year, living in cabins in the bush.