Prior to wrapping up at MU and heading to grad school, Abby also worked as a Lab Tech in the Limnology Lab at MU, worked as a Marine Animal Rehabilitation Intern with harbor seals, gray seals, and Kemps Ridley sea turtles at the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, and worked worked as a laboratory technician in Lisa Webb's Waterfowl and Wetland Ecology Research Lab.