Alisa Samuelson Email & Phone Number

Alberta, Canada

• Constructed artificial nesting burrows and soft-release enclosures• Released and monitored SY burrowing owl adults and their offspring• Trapped and banded HY fledglings with USGS and A-craft bands• Performed bleeding and DNA sexing • Located and monitored wild individuals, pairs, and nestlings• Discussed grassland management strategies with landowners• Lived in shared trailer with coworkers

Carden, Ontario

• Area biologist for the Carden, Grey-Bruce, and Manitoulin regions• Surveyed public and private lands for endangered Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes• Monitored pairs of wild shrikes for breeding behavior and nesting success• Performed grassland bird inventories and crude habitat assessments• Led captive juvenile shrike care, release, and monitoring• Trained employees and volunteers on captive avian care protocols• Attached stainless steel and double-overlap darvic bands to captive shrikes• Created blog posts to encourage stakeholder and public engagement• Wrote monthly and annual reports for internal assessment• Arranged site access for surveys with private landholders • Performed facility maintenance and repair• Lived onsite with two coworkers without electricity or potable water for four months

Langley, Bc

• Cared for captive breeding pairs of Northern Spotted and Barred Owls• Performed artificial incubation and chick rearing• Sought out and applied for grant funding and community outreach opportunities

Ontario, Canada

• Performed fixed-radius point-count wetland bird surveys throughout the Ontario Great Lakes Region • Conducted wetland flora assessments• Contacted property owners to arrange land access for annual surveys

Toronto, On

• Conducted breeding bird surveys and inventories (grassland, forest, and wetland)• Performed monitoring of salamander boards• Liaised with landowners to arrange property access• Assisted with nocturnal amphibian monitoring and inventories• Entered records in database and conducted QA/QC

Toronto, On

• Conducted breeding bird surveys and inventories (grassland, forest, and wetland)• Performed monitoring of salamander boards• Liaised with landowners to arrange property access• Assisted with nocturnal amphibian monitoring and inventories• Entered records in database and conducted QA/QC

Mississauga, On

• Performed invasive species control by herbicide application and manual removal• Led volunteers and school groups in invasive species removal and tree planting events• Assisted with electrofishing, seine net surveys, and Asian carp removal• Regularly contributed to the set-up and monitoring of EAB traps to map distribution throughout the watershed• Performed monitoring and identification of grassland insects and arachnids (to family) for SAR Grassland Birds Monitoring Project• Assisted with various construction projects• Wrote monitoring protocols for both grassland birds and arthropods that were submitted for SAR grant funding• Conducted grassland breeding bird and wetland call-playback bird surveys• Mapped grassland bird monitoring records for the watershed using ArcView• Created materials to be posted online for public outreach

• Updated previous pages • Created new pages and streamlined information to improve search hits

Etobicoke, On

• Conducted forest, vegetation, and terrestrial salamander monitoring in forests throughout Ontario for the Ontario Forests Biomonitoring Network• Calibrated and maintained Song Meters, time-lapse cameras, precipitation gauges, soil metres, and meteorological equipment on site and via satellite • Classified soils and collected samples from contaminated sites• Located remote sites using orthophotos and handheld GPS units• Established baseline floral monitoring protocols for carbon-flux monitoring sites in the James Bay Lowlands and assisted with maintenance of carbon-flux equipment• Constructed battery housing for protection from extreme temperatures and flooding• Liaised with members of the public and parks representatives whom had study plots located on their property• Completed quality assurance/quality control for data and created statistical summaries• Provided recommendations for further research• Wrote summary reports and reviewed and edited government reports prior to publication

Master Of Science (Msc), Environmental Practice, 3.8

Anticipated completion in fall, 2016. Relevant courses include: • Endangered Species and Wildlife • Legal Aspects of Environmental.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Ecology

Relevant courses include: • Wildlife Conservation and Management • Natural Resources Policy • Forest Ecology • Field Ecology • Ecological.