Emily DeAlto
Graduate Student, Field Naturalist Program
Cohort AO, Class of 2026
BIO
Emily grew up in New Jersey and attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where she received a B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Tearing up the coast in search of cooler weather, she became an AmeriCorps intern in Vermont's Department of Environmental Conservation, where she fell head over heels with this green state. At the DEC, she planted trees, removed invasives, created stormwater education programs, and organized community scientists and their data. She went on to work in environmental consulting in Denver, Colorado, where she found passion in the study of wetlands. Somewhere along the way she picked up a sense of wonder towards the world of fungi, an interest that has followed along her career from the side lines, peeking in whenever possible. Back in Vermont as an FN, she is excited to be reconnecting with her roots in the East and expanding them deeper and wider by learning how to read her landscape and tell its story. Emily loves to move outdoors: hiking, skiing, practicing yoga on her porch, and now botanizing! Anything to take in a few extra breaths of cold morning air at the start of each day.
Bio
Emily grew up in New Jersey and attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where she received a B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Tearing up the coast in search of cooler weather, she became an AmeriCorps intern in Vermont's Department of Environmental Conservation, where she fell head over heels with this green state. At the DEC, she planted trees, removed invasives, created stormwater education programs, and organized community scientists and their data. She went on to work in environmental consulting in Denver, Colorado, where she found passion in the study of wetlands. Somewhere along the way she picked up a sense of wonder towards the world of fungi, an interest that has followed along her career from the side lines, peeking in whenever possible. Back in Vermont as an FN, she is excited to be reconnecting with her roots in the East and expanding them deeper and wider by learning how to read her landscape and tell its story. Emily loves to move outdoors: hiking, skiing, practicing yoga on her porch, and now botanizing! Anything to take in a few extra breaths of cold morning air at the start of each day.