Scott L. Wing is a researcher and curator at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. Following college and graduate school at Yale University he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey before coming to the Smithsonian as a Curator of Fossil Plants in 1984. His research is on fossil plants and the history of climate change between about 70 and 40 million years ago. Since 2012 he has been on the team developing the Smithsonian’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time.”