WPC Staff Member
Betsy Leppo
Invertebrate Zoologist
Betsy grew up with parents who taught high school science, in a home next to Gifford Pinchot State Park in York County, and was thus destined to become a biologist. Betsy started working with the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program as an intern in 1992, then as an assistant data manager with The Nature Conservancy in 1996, and finally as an invertebrate zoologist with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy since 2006. Betsy conducts surveys for terrestrial and aquatic insects and other invertebrates, maintains specimen collections and databases, and develops conservation recommendations for at-risk species and their habitats.
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