Bob Mason, who teaches in the department of integrative biology in the Oregon State University College of Science, has become one of the world’s leading experts in the field of reproductive biology, in large part by studying the love life of the red-sided garter snake. He was the first scientist to identify and synthesize a pheromone from a reptile, and his work explores the relationships between things like natural products chemistry, behavioral biology, reproductive endocrinology and ecology. It’s also beginning to shed light on the impacts of climate change.