Brian Layton Cardall Wedding Film

Short Film by Brian Layton Cardall on his marriage to the love of his life Anna Schmidt.

THE SPECTRUM - BY KEVIN JENKINS • kevin@thespectrum.com • June 11, 2009 - ST. GEORGE

A Northern Arizona University professor said he was horrified to learn about the death Tuesday of graduate student Brian Cardall after Cardall was Tasered by a Hurricane police officer.
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"I am outraged and dismayed that such harsh tactics were used on such a kind and gentle human being," said Stephen M. Shuster, professor of invertebrate zoology at NAU where Cardall studied molecular ecology.

"He was a Science Foundation Arizona Fellow at Northern Arizona University and thus was a member of an elite group of graduate student scholars in this state - the intellectual cream of young Arizona scientists," Shuster said. "At Northern Arizona University, he was the standard against which all SFAz Fellows were judged. There was no indication that Brian was having mental problems that I was aware of," he said. "He was a consistently friendly, hard-working, intelligent, witty and even-tempered guy. He was a devoted father and a caring husband."

"Brian had all of the intellectual, creative and scientific tools he needed to become one of the most outstanding scientists of his generation," Shuster said. "His dissertation research in community genetics, the study of how genetic variation within species influences the distribution, abundance and fitness of other species, was already generating fascinating results on interactions between cottonwood trees and invasive tamarisk. ... To say he will be missed is a tragic understatement."

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