Oonagh Degenhardt

Oonagh is a high school student with experience in the biological sciences both professionally and from a hobbyist perspective. She specializes in work based around invertebrate and herpetofaunal subjects. Her skills include, but are not limited, to: field collection, husbandry, species identification, and morphological analyses.

In addition to these professional pursuits she also partakes in creative work in the form of wildlife photography and scientific illustration for the American Isopod and Myriapod Group (AIMG), and moderates their social media forum. Her work currently focuses on examining the biodiversity and phylogenetics of the native Armadillidae of western North America. She also works with Xystodesmid millipedes and Scolopocryptops, and hopes to publish her work in the future.

March 2025