Elisabeth Ammon served two terms on the WFO board of directors earlier in the 2000s and was re-elected in 2022. She has been the executive director of the Great Basin Bird Observatory since 2005. Elisabeth earned a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a project on the breeding ecology of montane riparian songbirds. Her career has covered habitat restoration planning for riparian birds, monitoring of landbirds including the development of a statewide landbird monitoring program for Nevada, and a wide variety of conservation planning efforts. Her interests today lie primarily in collaborating on bird conservation and monitoring.