Elora Ormand (she/her)
Elora graduated from Oregon State University in spring of 2020 with an Honors Bachelor of Science in Zoology and a minor in Fisheries and Wildlife. Beginning in the summer of 2019, Elora worked as a lab technician for the OSU desert bighorn project, helping review and categorize video files and photographs captured by trail cameras in the Mojave National Preserve. More recently, Elora has worked as a biological science technician for the US Forest Service. In 2021, she worked for the PacFish/InFish Biological Opinion Monitoring Program (PIBO), surveying streams in Eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Washington for steelhead and bull trout habitat. In 2022, she will be deploying bioacoustic equipment and analyzing the data to help monitor populations of northern spotted owls in Western Oregon. In the future, Elora plans to attend graduate school and become a permanent wildlife biologist. Her research interests include climate and anthropogenic driven changes in mammalian ecology, and wildlife conservation.
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