Now 16 and a home-school student, Jeannet has discovered that she doesn't have to travel too far to find fascinating insects.
Working with Todd Sformo, a doctoral student at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she has delved into the mechanisms that allow beetle larvae to survive temperatures of 40 and 50 below zero in Interior Alaska.
"I never realized before that there were insects that produce an antifreeze protein. It's really fascinating the systems that insects have developed to survive in the cold climate here," she said.
