Whit Gibbons is professor emeritus of ecology at the University of Georgia and former head of the Environmental Outreach and Education program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He has published numerous books on herpetology and ecology including Snakes of the Eastern United States and Their Blood Runs Cold. His narrative works include two books coauthored with his sister Anne R. Gibbons based on his long-running newspaper column, Ecoviews.
