Amelia graduated with her M.Sc. in Post-Secondary Science Education from NMU where she created the Yooper Wildlife Watch data management and citizen scientist portal within the Zooniverse online platform. Yooper Wildlife Watch is a interdisciplinary education, research, and extension initiative that uses remote cameras to examine wildlife spatial and temporal responses to seasonally diverse human activities (e.g., skiing, hiking, mountain biking, hunting, logging) across a mosaic of public and private lands at the rural-wildland interface in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In addition, Amelia developed immersive curriculum for the large-enrollment Principles of Ecology general education course that engages > 200 undergraduates annually in authentic ecological inquiry while simultaneously training students in camera trapping field methods. Prior to attending graduate school, Amelia completed her B.S. degree in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, spent several years working on shipping vessels in Alaska as a NOAA observer, and served as a teacher at Conserve School in Wisconsin. Amilia aims to teach at a community college and engage citizen scientists in meaningful ecological and conservation science. In her free time, she loves to knit, cross country ski, kayak, bake, and convince friends to jump in Lake Superior at odd times of the year.

Sierra investigated black bear-gut microbiome relationships and the potential consequences of anthropogenic pressures on wildlife gut microbiota community structure. Sierra graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies in 2013. Prior to starting her masters at NMU in 2018, Sierra worked for several years in different research roles including being a large carnivore keeper at Wildlife Safari Park's cheetah breeding program; a research volunteer for Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership in Kianjavato, Madagascar; a field-site manager for research on human-fossa interactions in Morandava, Madagascar; a research technician on deer foraging behavior in Northeast Washington state; and as a research technician on carnivore interactions in Northeastern Oregon. Sierra is currently a PhD student in Dr. Gardner's Quantitative Ecology Lab in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at University of Washington where she is using hierarchical distance models to to synthesize long-term survey data of marine birds and mammals.

Tru was a MS student in Biology at NMU where she led the Yooper Wildlife Watch project, which is an interdisciplinary education, research, and extension initiative that uses remote cameras to examine wildlife spatial and temporal responses to seasonally diverse human activities (e.g., skiing, hiking, mountain biking, hunting, logging) across a mosaic of public and private lands at the rural-wildland interface in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Tru's graduate research focused on the impact of human recreation on black bear occupancy and detection across the Marquette-wildland interface and variation in carnivore community dynamics across across the United States. Beyond Yooper Wildlife Watch, Tru collaborated on SnapShot USA, a nation-wide initiative led by The Smithsonian and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to evaluate wildlife detections and occupancy across all 50 states. Tru continues to be an instructor for Principles of Ecology at NMU and coordinate Yooper Wildlife Watch activities and contribute to Snapshot USA. 

Sarah completed her MS degree in Biology in December of 2021. While at NMU, her thesis research focused on examining the ecological causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in brown bears across three national parks in Alaska (i.e., Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Her research was a collaborative initiative with scientists at NMU and North Carolina State University as well as researchers with the National Park Service, US-Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, thus enabling her findings to be integrated directly into federal decision-making regarding the conservation and management of brown bears and their microbes. Upon graduation, Sarah began serving as a wildlife biologist with US-Fish and Wildlife Service for the Mid-Columbia River National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Washington. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys backpacking, mountaineering, nature photography and spending quality time with her cat.