Eden Nitza

Eden grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and received her B.S. degree in Biology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2020. After graduating, she worked as a seasonal wildlife technician in several capacities, including: red-cockaded woodpecker population monitoring in Florida, mule deer surveying in Kansas, coyote collaring in Georgia, and pronghorn antelope collaring in Oklahoma. She joined the Wild Genomics lab at WVU in 2022 as an M.S. student and is studying the diet and population genetics of the reintroduced river otter (Lontra canadensis) population in West Virginia. 

Eden successfully defended her thesis July 2024!