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Members of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Ecological Program prepare to remove eggs from an alligator nest. From left are Lynne Phillips, a NASA physical scientist in Kennedy’s Environmental Management branch; Russ Lowers, wildlife biologist with InoMedic Health Applications (IHA); Dr. Louis Guillette of the Medical University of South Carolina; Matt Guillette, also of the Medical University of South Carolina; and Stephanie Weiss, wildlife biologist with IHA. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 140,000 acres that provide a habitat for more than 330 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles.