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Ellie Sattler
Appearances	Jurassic Park The Lost World (mentioned)
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Role	Paleobotanist
Status	Alive
Family	Dr. Reiman (husband) Unnamed son Unnamed daughter
Born	c. 1965

Ellen "Ellie" Sattler is a paleobotanist in Jurassic Park. She was part of the endorsement team to inspect Jurassic Park. She was there when Dennis Nedry shut down the park, and she survived the incident.

History

Jurassic Park

Ellen "Ellie" Sattler is the only child of Terry and Diane Sattler. She was a graduate student at the Snakewater dig site. Her professor was Dr. Alan Grant. She was a paleobotanist, a paleontologist who specializes in the study of prehistoric plants. She was 24 years old and darkly tanned, most likely due to sun exposure during her digs. She was engaged to Dr. Reiman, a physicist from Berkeley.

Ellie was asked to come to the park by John Hammond, who hoped that she would endorse it. Sattler agreed, and was, like Grant, originally thrilled with the prospect of Jurassic Park and the large sum of money she was being paid to inspect it. However, she saw the dangers of mixing dinosaurs with humans. She first began to have her doubts about the park when she noticed that the Jurassic Park staff had paid no attention to the plant life around them. They had placed poisonous plants around the pools and other public places, and were unaware that the Stegosaurus were swallowing toxic berries. During the tour, Sattler helped solve this problem of what was ailing the park's Stegosaurus. She then took the Jeep with Gerry Harding and Donald Gennaro to the Visitor Center. She helped Harding take care of Ian Malcolm's injuries after he was rescued. During the final power outage, Sattler used herself as bait and distracted a number of Velociraptors trying to get into the Safari Lodge. After Tim Murphy restored power, she accompanied Grant and Gennaro to the raptor nest to document the number of animals that survived. She escaped the island alive.

The Lost World

While Ellie did not appear in The Lost World, it was mentioned in the novel that Lewis Dodgson had hired Ed James to follow her. James reported she married a physicist from Berkeley. They had two young children, a son and a daughter. Ellie lectures half-time at Berkeley. One of her lectures was about fossil pollen (Palynology) at the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary.