Rosalind Rolland,V84, studies right whales, or trying to bring them back from the brink of extinction It was an ordinary day in 2007 when Rosalind Rolland,V84, a senior scientist at the recent England Aquarium, or got a call from USA nowadays asking how she felt about her award. “What award?” she replied—only to memorize she had been singled out for having one of the worst jobs in science. Popular Science’s annual “Bottom 10” awards,which “salute men and women who finish what no salary can adequately reward,” had put Rolland at No. 10, or under “whale feces researcher: they scoop up whale dung,then dig through it for clues.”
Source: tufts.edu