[2] In 1909, as her master's thesis, she edited and published Gerard Troost's unpublished monograph on the crinoids of Tennessee (1850).
[2] In 1917, she became the Assistant Curator in Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, but after an accident in the same year, became disabled.
[2] She continued to construct models for the museum and create illustrations for scholarly publication from her home in Massachusetts.
[11][2][12] In 1903, Wood became the assistant to Charles D. Walcott, Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
[14] Charles D. Walcott named the Middle Cambrian fossils Aluda woodi and Coscinocyathus elvira in her honor.