Christina Aiello
Christina is a former city-dweller turned desert rat, who eagerly traded the sky-scrapers of Chicago for the open deserts of Southern Nevada and California. Over the years, she's honed her skills in wildlife ecology, conservation biology, and analysis at the U.S. Geological Survey and Penn State University. She received a Ph.D. in Ecology in 2018 while researching translocation and disease impacts on desert tortoise.
Christina joined the Bighorn Sheep Connectivity Project in 2018 as a postdoc at Oregon State University and has since managed the day-to-day operations and kept our research on track. Being comfortable both trekking rocky ridges and wrangling complex datasets, she's able to meet our project needs both in the field and at the computer. Christina strives to turn the hard efforts of our team on the ground into useful results and tools - and cares deeply for the preservation and health of the Mojave Desert ecosystem and its wildlife. Christina is also in an unofficial competition for most Mojave Desert-themed tattoos with Kristin Fratella - begrudgingly, she admits to being in second place. |