Quentin D. Wheeler

Quentin Duane Wheeler (born January 31, 1954)[1] 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.[2] 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.

This article is about the American entomologist. For the American Olympic hurdler, see Quentin Wheeler.

Quentin D. Wheeler
President
SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
In office
January 2014 (2014-01) – June 30, 2018 (2018-06-30)
Preceded byCornelius B. Murphy, Jr.
Succeeded byDavid C. Amberg
Vice-President and Dean
ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
In office
2007 (2007)–2011 (2011)
Interim Dean
ASU Division Of Natural Sciences
In office
2006–2007
Personal details
Alma materOhio State University
(B.S.), (M.S.), (Ph.D.)
FieldsEntomology
Taxonomy
Phylogenetics

Education

Wheeler holds bachelor (1976), master's (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in entomology from Ohio State University.[3][4] His Ph.D. dissertation is titled, "Comparative morphology, cladistics, and a revised classification of the genera Lymexylidae (Coleoptera), including descriptions of two new genera".[5]

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.

Quentin Wheeler, speaking at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, 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.[6] 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.[7][8][9][10]

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.[11] He has had three species of beetles named in his honor, such as Tonerus wheeleri,[12] Eleodes wheeleri,[13] and Agathisium wheeleri.[14]

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.[3]

Key works
Articles

Among Wheeler's most highly cited articles are:[15]

  • Watrous, Larry E.; Wheeler, Quentin D. (1981). "The out-group comparison method of character analysis". Systematic Biology. 30 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1093/sysbio/30.1.1.
  • Nixon, Kevin C.; Wheeler, Quentin D. (1990). "An amplification of the phylogenetic species concept". Cladistics. 6 (3): 211–223. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00541.x. S2CID 84095773.
  • Wheeler, Quentin D (2004). "Taxonomic triage and the poverty of phylogeny". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 359 (1444): 571–583. doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1452. PMC 1693342. PMID 15253345.
  • Wheeler, Quentin D.; Raven, Peter H.; Wilson, Edward O. (2004). "January 16). "Taxonomy: impediment or expedient" (editorial)". Science. 303 (5656): 285. doi:10.1126/science.303.5656.285. PMID 14726557.
Books

Wheeler's most widely held books include:[16]

  • 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

See also

References
  1. Library of Congress Authority File. Accessed: June 4, 2014.
  2. Catalfamo, Mary (28 August 2008). "SUNY-ESF President Quentin Wheeler's resignation, explained". The Daily Orange. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. "Quentin Wheeler Chosen as New President of SUNY-ESF," SUNY-ESF, November 15, 2013. Accessed: February 22, 2014.
  4. "Quentin Wheeler," Archived 22 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Accessed: February 22, 2014.
  5. "Quentin Wheeler," ResearchGate. Accessed: February 14, 2014.
  6. Jackson, Nicholas (18 November 2011). "A Conversation With Quentin D. Wheeler, Sustainability Scientist". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  7. Tobin, Dave (15 November 2013). "SUNY ESF's next president, Quentin Wheeler, is a bug expert". Syracuse.com. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  8. Willis, Scott; Farrell, Sean (12 September 2014). "Dr. Quentin Wheeler Inaugurated as SUNY ESF's Fourth President". WAER 795. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  9. Mulder, James T. (2018, June 14). "Upstate Medical VP to serve as interim president of SUNY ESF," Syracuse.com. Accessed: 1 July 2018.
  10. Mulder, James T. (2018, March 21). "Controversial SUNY ESF president stepping down after feuding with faculty," Syracuse.com Accessed: 11 September 2018.
  11. "Quentin Wheeler - Person". Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  12. Miller, Kelly B. (2009). "On the systematics of Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Hydradephaga): Phylogeny, description of a new tribe, genus and species, and survey of female genital morphology". Systematics and Biodiversity. 7 (2): 191–214. doi:10.1017/S1477200008002946. S2CID 55800126.
  13. Smith, Aaron; Dornburg, Rebecca; Wheeler, Quentin (2014). "Larvae of the genus Eleodes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae): matrix-based descriptions, cladisticanalysis, and key to late instars". ZooKeys (415): 217–268. doi:10.3897/zookeys.415.5887. PMC 4089825. PMID 25009429.
  14. Angelini, Fernando (1990). "New Species and Records of Agathidium from Malaysia (Malaya) and the Philippines (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 44 (3): 241–254. JSTOR 4008726.
  15. Google Scholar. Accessed: 27 September 2016.
  16. "Quentin Wheeler," WorldCat. Accessed: 31 May 2015.

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