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Mary Clapp (she/her) Mary Clapp is an East Coast vagrant who, in 2010, found herself blown across the country to the Eastern Sierra, and decided to stay. She received her PhD in Ecology from UC-Davis in 2021, where she studied how trout introductions to historically fishless alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada alter bird diversity at their shorelines. She is now an acoustic biologist at the Institute for Bird Populations, and calls the Mono Basin home. She prefers the edge habitat where science, storytelling, and awe meet, and looks forward to seeing you there.