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Joel Cohen

Joel Cohen is a visiting scholar at Duke’s Nicholas School for the Environment. His studies focus on biodiversity in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Park. After working internationally, he returned to the United States, and devoted his second career to education, specifically secondary and undergraduate biology.

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Calvin Ross Sperling

Sperling was a plant explorer who dedicated his life to preserving biodiversity through seed banking for ecological and agricultural purposes.