Quentin D. Wheeler

{{About|the American entomologist|the American Olympic hurdler|Quentin Wheeler}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Quentin D. Wheeler

|image = Quentin-Wheeler-2014.jpg

|caption =

|office = President
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

|term_start = {{Start date|2014|1}}

|predecessor = Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr.

|successor = David C. Amberg

|term_end = {{Start date|2018|6|30}}

|office2 = Vice-President and Dean
ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

|term_start2 = {{Start date|2007}}

|term_end2 = {{Start date|2011}}

|office3 = Interim Dean
ASU Division Of Natural Sciences

|term_start3 = 2006

|term_end3 = 2007

|alma_mater = Ohio State University
(B.S.), (M.S.), (Ph.D.)

|blank1 = Fields

|data1 = Entomology
Taxonomy
Phylogenetics

}}

Quentin Duane Wheeler (born January 31, 1954)[http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n82-215424.html Library of Congress Authority File.] Accessed: June 4, 2014. is an American entomologist, taxonomist, author and newspaper columnist, and is the founding director of the International Institute for Species Exploration. He was the fourth President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York until his retirement.{{cite news|title=SUNY-ESF President Quentin Wheeler's resignation, explained|date=August 28, 2008|author=Catalfamo, Mary|work=The Daily Orange|url=http://dailyorange.com/2018/08/suny-esf-president-quentin-wheelers-resignation-explained/|access-date=2020-08-16}} Other positions have included: professor of entomology at Cornell University and Arizona State University; Keeper and Head of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London; and Director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation.

Education

Wheeler holds bachelor (1976), master's (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in entomology from Ohio State University.[http://www.esf.edu/communications/view.asp?newsID=2436 "Quentin Wheeler Chosen as New President of SUNY-ESF,"] SUNY-ESF, November 15, 2013. Accessed: February 22, 2014.[http://sustainability.asu.edu/research/persbio.php?pid=8049 "Quentin Wheeler,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622004943/https://sustainability.asu.edu/research/persbio.php/?pid=8049 |date=22 June 2018 }} Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Accessed: February 22, 2014. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled, "Comparative morphology, cladistics, and a revised classification of the genera Lymexylidae (Coleoptera), including descriptions of two new genera".[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/35857259_Comparative_morphology_cladistics_and_a_revised_classification_of_the_genera_Lymexylidae_%28Coleoptera%29_including_descriptions_of_two_new_genera "Quentin Wheeler,"] ResearchGate. Accessed: February 14, 2014.

Career

Wheeler was a faculty member for 24 years at Cornell University, where he earned the rank of tenured full professor. He was chair of entomology and director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium at Cornell. Wheeler also previously served as the Keeper and Head of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London from 2004–2006, and was director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation from 2001-2004.File:Quentin-Wheeler-2009.jpg, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2009 (photo by Sage Ross)]]

Wheeler joined Arizona State University in 2006. He was the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, and founding executive director of the International Institute for Species Exploration.{{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Nicholas|title=A Conversation With Quentin D. Wheeler, Sustainability Scientist|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/a-conversation-with-quentin-d-wheeler-sustainability-scientist/248376/|work=The Atlantic|access-date=15 November 2014|date=18 November 2011}} Wheeler served as interim dean of the Division of Natural Sciences in 2006, and in 2007 was appointed to the position of vice president and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a position he held until 2011. He was President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry from January 2014 through June 2018.{{cite web|last1=Tobin|first1=Dave|title=SUNY ESF's next president, Quentin Wheeler, is a bug expert|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/quentin_wheeler_chosen_as_new_president_of_suny-esf.html|website=Syracuse.com|access-date=15 November 2014|date=15 November 2013}}{{cite web|last1=Willis|first1=Scott|last2=Farrell|first2=Sean|title=Dr. Quentin Wheeler Inaugurated as SUNY ESF's Fourth President|date=12 September 2014 |url=http://waer.org/post/dr-quentin-wheeler-inaugurated-suny-esfs-fourth-president|publisher=WAER 795|access-date=15 November 2014}}[https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/upstate_medical_vp_to_serve_as_interim_president_of_suny_esf.html Mulder, James T. (2018, June 14). "Upstate Medical VP to serve as interim president of SUNY ESF,"] Syracuse.com. Accessed: 1 July 2018.[https://www.syracuse.com/schools/index.ssf/2018/03/post_10.html Mulder, James T. (2018, March 21). "Controversial SUNY ESF president stepping down after feuding with faculty,"] Syracuse.com Accessed: 11 September 2018.

Research

Wheeler's research career has focused on the role of species exploration and natural history collections in the exploration and conservation of biodiversity; theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics and cybertaxonomy; the evolution and classification of insects, especially beetles; and public science education. He has received a number of academic honors, including fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Linnean Society of London and Royal Entomological Society.{{Cite web|title=Quentin Wheeler - Person|url=https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/|access-date=2020-10-28|website=Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation|language=en-US}} He has had three species of beetles named in his honor, such as Tonerus wheeleri,{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=Kelly B.|title=On the systematics of Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Hydradephaga): Phylogeny, description of a new tribe, genus and species, and survey of female genital morphology|journal=Systematics and Biodiversity|date=2009|volume=7|issue=2|pages=191–214|doi=10.1017/S1477200008002946|bibcode=2009SyBio...7..191M |s2cid=55800126}} Eleodes wheeleri,{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Aaron|last2=Dornburg|first2=Rebecca|last3=Wheeler|first3=Quentin|title=Larvae of the genus Eleodes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae): matrix-based descriptions, cladisticanalysis, and key to late instars|journal=ZooKeys|date=2014|issue=415|pages=217–268|doi=10.3897/zookeys.415.5887|pmid=25009429|pmc=4089825|doi-access=free |bibcode=2014ZooK..415..217S }} and Agathisium wheeleri.{{cite journal|last1=Angelini|first1=Fernando|title=New Species and Records of Agathidium from Malaysia (Malaya) and the Philippines (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)|journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin|date=1990|volume=44|issue=3|pages=241–254|jstor=4008726}}

He is the author of approximately 150 scientific articles and six books, including What on Earth? – 100 of Our Planet's Most Amazing New Species. He has named more than 100 new species and writes a periodic column on new species for The Guardian newspaper in London.

Key works

;Articles

Among Wheeler's most highly cited articles are:[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X33EfdQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Google Scholar.] Accessed: 27 September 2016.

{{cite journal | last1 = Watrous | first1 = Larry E. | last2 = Wheeler | first2 = Quentin D. | year = 1981 | title = The out-group comparison method of character analysis | journal = Systematic Biology | volume = 30 | issue = 1| pages = 1–11 | doi=10.1093/sysbio/30.1.1}}
{{cite journal | last1 = Nixon | first1 = Kevin C. | last2 = Wheeler | first2 = Quentin D. | year = 1990 | title = An amplification of the phylogenetic species concept | journal = Cladistics | volume = 6 | issue = 3| pages = 211–223 | doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00541.x| s2cid = 84095773 | doi-access = free }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Wheeler | first1 = Quentin D | year = 2004 | title = Taxonomic triage and the poverty of phylogeny | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B | volume = 359 | issue = 1444| pages = 571–583 | doi=10.1098/rstb.2003.1452 | pmid=15253345 | pmc=1693342}}
{{cite journal | last1 = Wheeler | first1 = Quentin D. | author-link2 = Peter H. Raven | author-link3 = E. O. Wilson | last2 = Raven | first2 = Peter H. | last3 = Wilson | first3 = Edward O. | year = 2004 | title = January 16). "Taxonomy: impediment or expedient" (editorial) | journal = Science | volume = 303 | issue = 5656| page = 285 | doi=10.1126/science.303.5656.285| pmid = 14726557 | doi-access = free | hdl = 1808/295 | hdl-access = free }}

;Books

Wheeler's most widely held books include:[https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-215424/ "Quentin Wheeler,"] WorldCat. Accessed: 31 May 2015.

Wheeler, Quentin D., and Meredith Blackwell, eds. 1984. Fungus-insect relationships: perspectives in ecology and evolution. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0231056946}}
Novacek, Michael J., and Quentin Wheeler, eds. 1992. Extinction and phylogeny. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0231074384}}
Wheeler, Quentin D., and Rudolf Meier, eds. 2000. Species concepts and phylogenetic theory: a debate. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0231101431}}
Wheeler, Quentin D., eds. 2008. The New Taxonomy. Boca Raton: CRC Press. {{ISBN|978-0849390883}}
Knapp, Sandra, and Quentin D. Wheeler, eds. 2009. Letters to Linnaeus. London: Linnean Society of London. {{ISBN|978-0950620794}}
Wheeler, Quentin D., and Sara Pennak. 2013. What on Earth? 100 of our planet's most amazing new species. New York: Plume. {{ISBN|978-0452298149}}
Williams, David, Schmitt, Michael, and Quentin Wheeler, eds. 2016. "The future of phylogenetic systematics: The legacy of Willi Hennig". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-1107117648}}

References

External links

Wheeler, Quentin. (2010 - ). [https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/new-to-nature "New to nature" (column)], The Guardian, UK
{{cite journal | last1 = Wheeler | first1 = Quentin | last2 = Valdecasas | first2 = Antonio G. | year = 2010 | title = Cybertaxonomy and Ecology | url = http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/cybertaxonomy-and-ecology-15787535 | journal = Nature Education Knowledge | volume = 3 | issue = 10| page = 6 }}

{{s-ttl|title=President of SUNY Environmental Science & Forestry|years=January 2014–June 2018}}

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