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Lucky for my professor, he was affiliated with JPL and the search for extremophilic bacteria and Archeae. So he would put lines in his grant proposals about how these hardy organisms populations change as a result of "climate," change and that would aid the search for life on Mars...lol Which all we were doing is identifying and classifying halophiles bacteria on a salt plain in Oklahoma. It was pretty cool to discover unclassified species, and place them into their proper Phylogenetic tree.
Creative and smart. I like how he thinks.