Elise Torello graduated from URI in 1988 with a degree in Wildlife Biology and Management. She worked for many years at the Environmental Protection Agency laboratory in Narragansett, RI as a biologist performing wastewater toxicity testing and data management. She temporarily put her career aside to raise her two boys, now 12 and 10 years old (future pond watchers!), in South Kingstown within a mile or so of Pt. Judith Pond, Potter’s Pond, and the Atlantic. Elise has always been concerned with watershed and water quality issues and has been an active volunteer for the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association. She is excited to also be involved volunteering with the SPC, doing pond monitoring on Potter’s Pond, serving on the board, and soon to be assisting with data management and analysis. She is also (finally!) finishing her Master’s degree in Computer Science, working on a thesis project on using web-based mapping tools to make data collected by volunteer water-quality monitors accessible to the public (using WPWA data).