Ella Eleven - About Me & ABQ Env. Health

Hi all! I am Ella Eleven, I am a recent graduate from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology with a Bachelor's in Biology. I am working with the city of Albuquerque NM and collaborating with the University of New Mexico to survey mosquito populations and test them for insecticide resistance and West Nile virus. 

Last summer I did an undergraduate research program at the North Dakota State University doing lab and fieldwork with bees. Now I get to do lab and fieldwork with mosquitos! Very excited. I don't know specifically what I want to do after the summer but I'm looking out for any opportunities that come my way.

So far we have done a little bit of identifying species but the main bit of work was setting up traps around the city and picking them up again. I aim to get some nice mosquito photos for my next post but right now here's me placing a 'gravid' trap: the standing dirty water attracts mosquitos wanting to lay eggs, and they get caught in the fan and stuck in that chamber at the top. 

I'm also working with Morgan and Autumn, but Autumn is coming in next week. You'll see their blog posts too!

Outside of work, I spend most of my time doing art or reading comics/playing video games. Posting this nice and early today so I can spend the rest of the day drawing stuff!