It is a 6th grade science fair, this Marine Biologist PUBLISHED his findings in 2011, thus he should get credit for the discovery. However; who expects 6th graders to come up with new and ground breaking discoveries? Generally they will try to duplicate other peoples experiments. So why is this guy so upset? His discoveries are not allowed to be tested by others? Has he ever heard of peer review? What are they teaching scientists these days?
Oh, silly me, they are teaching them how to beg for grant money.
I think he is more upset by the girl’s father sharing the research they did together with his daughter for her project.
Whatever happened to the Science Fair rule of “Do your own work”?
He "discovered" that lion fish have the ability to live in relatively fresh water environments. The 6th grader did an experiment to determine how fresh the water could be and still not kill the fish. Frankly I'm not so sure that Jud even discovered anything that commercial fisherman didn't already know. He just documented his findings in a journal. She, OTOH, performed independent experiments to determine the exact environments in which it is possible for Lion fish to exist. I think his "discovery" was more or less irrelevant to her experiments. There was no need to give him any attribution. He's just jealous that she got all the publicity.