Lately, we’ve seen interesting things being named after celebrities like a treadmill on the International Space Station named after Stephen Colbert, but this honor for director Tim Burton is unique. Bridgette Clarkston, a doctoral student at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus has named a brand new species of seaweed after the director.
Clarkson works for one of the world’s leading seaweed science laboratories and travels to collect and catalogue species of seaweed across North America.
The official name of this seaweed is Euthora timbutonii and Clarkson says that she named the seaweed after Burton because of what it looks like:
“I decided to name this new species in honour of film director Tim Burton because I grew up watching and loving his films, and I think they had an influence on my imagination. And so when I’m scuba diving in British Columbia and I...
Clarkson works for one of the world’s leading seaweed science laboratories and travels to collect and catalogue species of seaweed across North America.
The official name of this seaweed is Euthora timbutonii and Clarkson says that she named the seaweed after Burton because of what it looks like:
“I decided to name this new species in honour of film director Tim Burton because I grew up watching and loving his films, and I think they had an influence on my imagination. And so when I’m scuba diving in British Columbia and I...
- 5/17/2010
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
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