The entomology department at Texas A&M University has suffered a loss with the unexpected death of Professor and Extension Entomologist Dr. John Jackman.
From Mike Merchant's blog, Insects in the City:
John was a wonderful colleague with an encyclopedic knowledge of insects. For all the tough entomology questions (and there are lots of them) he was the go-to guy for me and my colleagues . Whenever there was a question I couldn't answer, I'd call John.
For the past 19 years since I've been here, John has been the department's principal responder to phone calls received from the public — no easy task. In addition, he was one of the first extension faculty to see and take advantage of the Internet's potential for public education. He built the departmental home page, the second most visited website in the Texas AgriLife Extension system. I've often wished I had half the computer knowledge he had.
Read Masterson's full post here.