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                 Kati Wrubel does not have time to sit down. There is a crowd of people three deep around her table at the New England Reptile Expo. Those in the back crane their necks for a look at the geckos in tall plastic containers arrayed on the table.

             A tawny-colored crested gecko named Sammi crouches her 4-inch-long body and equally long tail atop the container in the center. Every once in a while Sammi reaches out with her long tongue and licks her own eyeball.

 

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, “Leaping Lizards!”

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             Turning his truck off the highway, Scott Darling sees the signs everywhere. In broad daylight, bats skim a recently thawed pond, and they flutter about in the roadway to the trailhead. They should still be hibernating — it is early spring, and there are no flying insects around for the bats to eat. Something is wrong.

 

 

Nature Conservancy Magazine “In the Dark”

                 Greg Hanlon saw the storm coming from a long way off. Outside his office in the Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H., the flag fluttered and the sun peeked between clouds. But Hanlon's back was usually to the three windows. It was the flat-screen computer monitor on his desk that offered the better view of approaching weather.
             Hanlon controls seven dams in the northernmost stretch of the Connecticut River basin. The dams keep communities downriver from going under water….

 

Hartford Courant  Magazine “Vermont Be Dammed”