As part of her thesis Tera Edkins, a Master of Science biology student at the U of R, spent the summer studying two snake species: the bull and the eastern yellow-bellied racer in southern Saskatchewan’s Big Muddy Valley. The project involved catching the snakes and implanting radio transmitters into them and using radio telemetry to follow the snakes and learn about their movement and what habitat they need to survive. “I’m essentially turning the snake into a living radio station, where it broadcasts a signal that leads me to the snake’s location,” says Edkins. “Using this technology I’m able to track snake movements throughout their active period.”