Madeline Bodin

Madeline Bodin is a Vermont-based freelance science journalist who has written for The Magazine, Wildflower, Discover.com, Popular Mechanics, and other publications. She was a COMPASS journalism fellow at the 2015 Society for Marine Mammalogy international conference in San Francisco, where some of the reporting for this article occurred.

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