Ashelee Rasmussen

Research Associate

Ashelee joins NRCC as a science communicator, educator, illustrator, artist and exhibit designer. She has led education programming at the Idaho Museum of Natural History and teaches such courses as botany and illustration at Idaho State University. Ashelee engages students, educators, and researchers in using illustration as a learning tool to observe, record, and communicate science and nature. She integrates science and art in her research, teaching, and projects. Ashelee has partnered with NRCC RAs and PPs Chuck Peterson and Andrew Ray to produce a series of images of GYE amphibians to educate about their unique beauty, life histories, and vulnerabilities. She earned a BS in Ecology and a MS and DA in Biology from Idaho State University.