She is currently an Assistant Professor in Aquatic Ecotoxicology at Queen's University and Director of the QE3 Research Group.
[3][4][5] After funding cuts by the Canadian government,[6] Orihel put writing her PhD thesis on hold to spearhead the Coalition to Save ELA for most of 2012.
[2][3][4] Her efforts seemed to be in vain for months, and staff members had already started dismantling the site in spring 2013 when the IISD announced they had made a deal with the Ontario provincial government to keep the site open through the summer.
[3] In April 2014, the IISD announced that they had secured long-term funding for the ELA in cooperation with the Governments of Ontario and Canada.
[7] Orihel has received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her efforts to save the ELA[8]