Ella Bradford

Ella graduated from Harvard University in 2024 with a BA in Integrative Biology, a secondary in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and a language citation in Spanish. At Harvard, she was a member of the Davies Lab in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. She worked on several projects related to animal-ecosystem interactions at landscape scales, including work in Kenya, Republic of Congo, and South Africa. For her undergraduate thesis, she worked at Odzala-Kokoua National Park, in the northern Republic of Congo, where she used camera trap data, remotely sensed landscape data, and GPS telemetry to provide evidence for a viable spotted hyena living exclusively in the rainforest regions of the park.

Bradford, E. M., Hockridge, E. G., Gibbon, G. E., Kibongui, G., Mouamana, A., Ngama, G., Osner, N., & Davies, A. B. (2025). Natural forest clearings enable the persistence of stable spotted hyena populations in Congo Basin rainforests. Biotropica, 57(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70065; Hockridge, Evan G., Ella M. Bradford, Katherine I. W. Angier, Beatrice H. Youd, Elijah B. M. McGill, Sylvain Y. Ngouma, Roger L. Ognangue, Gwili E. M. Gibbon, and Andrew B. Davies. 2024. “ Spatial Ecology, Biodiversity, and Abiotic Determinants of Congo's Bai Ecosystem.” Ecology e4419. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4419