Abigail Birdsell is currently attending Texas A&M University and is anticipated to graduate with a B.S. in Ecology and Conservation Biology in the fall of 2023. For the past 3 years she has had the privilege of working for Texas Parks and Wildlife running histological and serological diagnostic testing on cervids for Chronic Wasting Disease. Additionally, she has worked as a student researcher at Texas A&M's Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, with a focus on ichthyological specimens.