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About Emmeleia
Emmeleia (Emme) graduated from California Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo, CA in 2018 with a B.S. in Animal Science and a minor in Biology. During her undergraduate years, she was involved in research projects working with reptiles such as the Western fence lizard and the Southern Pacific rattlesnake.
After graduating, she interned with the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research. Once this position concluded, she worked as a biological technician for the Bureau for Land Management's Central Coast field office, working primarily with blunt-nosed leopard lizards, California red-legged frogs, and foothill yellow-legged frogs from 2018 to 2021. During this time, she also entered Miami University and the San Diego Zoo's conservation-oriented graduate program, the "Advanced Inquiry Program", earning her M.A. in Biology in 2021.
Emme's professional interests include wildlife conservation (especially environmental policy), general ecology (especially habitat suitability), herpetology, behavioral ecology, thermal biology, desert ecosystems, and many more. Her dissertation research at Davis is an extension of the work she did with the US Bureau of Land Management, focused on recovering the blunt-nosed leopard lizard by investigating its modern range-wide occurrence and looking at key habitat features driving occupancy by the endangered desert lizard.