{"id":9122,"date":"2016-08-03T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:11:33","slug":"snakebite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2016\/08\/03\/snakebite\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakebit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ph.D. student Berlynna Heres cut her research teeth on eastern diamondback rattlesnakes but arrived at 91¸£Àû to find out how American eels get along with dams<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Long before going to graduate school at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, Berlynna Heres was drawn to the field of herpetology\u2014from the Greek word \u201cherpian\u201d meaning \u201cto creep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snakes are among those creepy crawlies and are the ones that most captured Heres\u2019 fancy. So to earn her master\u2019s degree she ended up tracking, capturing, and surgically implanting radio devices in eastern diamondback rattlesnakes\u2014the largest venomous snake in North America and reaching lengths of eight feet and weighing up to 10 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>With her master\u2019s in hand, she was poised to do similar work tracking and tagging timber rattlesnakes for a summer but turned that job down to accept her current position as a doctoral student working with professor Joseph Zydlewski of the 91¸£Àû\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wle\/\">Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology<\/a>\u00a0for a rather different\u2014and a bit safer\u2014line of work as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/\">Mitchell Center<\/a>-led\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/road-to-solutions\/new-england-sustainability-consortium\/the-future-of-dams-nest\/\">Future of Dams<\/a>\u00a0project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/news-2\/snakebit\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. student Berlynna Heres cut her research teeth on eastern diamondback rattlesnakes but arrived at 91¸£Àû to find out how American eels get along with dams Long before going to graduate school at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, Berlynna Heres was drawn to the field of herpetology\u2014from the Greek word \u201cherpian\u201d meaning \u201cto creep.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}