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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Field ecologist specializing in instrumentation maintenance including eddy covariance systems

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Participated in field activities such as plant identification, plant phenology, entomology, mammalogy, and aquatic data collection following protocols. Contributed to all aspects of maintaining terrestrial instrumentation systems including troubleshooting, corrective maintenance, and preventative maintenance.

Stanford, Ca

Assisted greenhouse manager with duties relating to maintaining greenhouses, growth rooms and growth chambers by washing and organizing greenhouse supplies, operating and cleaning the greenhouse autoclave to sterilize plant waste, decontaminating greenhouses by using cleaners and pressure washers, routinely using pesticides for pest management, and preparing tanglefoot traps throughout the growth facility to monitor pests.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Supported scientific inventory and monitoring work during the 2018 field season by implementing established natural resource management projects and following instructions and standardized procedures. Completed forest and range monitoring duties including vegetation data collection, species identification (using botanical keys), individual plant characteristics measurements, plant cover estimation, and plant biomass measurements. Surveyed, identified, and mapped invasive exotic plants, and… Show more Supported scientific inventory and monitoring work during the 2018 field season by implementing established natural resource management projects and following instructions and standardized procedures. Completed forest and range monitoring duties including vegetation data collection, species identification (using botanical keys), individual plant characteristics measurements, plant cover estimation, and plant biomass measurements. Surveyed, identified, and mapped invasive exotic plants, and performed exotic plant treatments through chemical, manual and mechanical methods along roads and in sensitive wetland areas. Created maps using ESRI's ArcGIS and ArcMap. Show less

Santa Barbara, California

Managed membership activities for active members including responding to member questions, processing membership dues, managing email and mail correspondence, and ensuring accurate donor and gift data in Raiser's Edge.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Assisted in cataloging fossil specimens and entering information into the park’s database; completed annual inventory of collections as needed; helped organize and accomplish moving the 10,000+ fossil collection into a brand new storage area; supervised other interns during the collection move to ensure proper packing and organization; took the lead in reorganizing the collection after the move, a process that included developing a new organization plan based on collection sites and accession… Show more Assisted in cataloging fossil specimens and entering information into the park’s database; completed annual inventory of collections as needed; helped organize and accomplish moving the 10,000+ fossil collection into a brand new storage area; supervised other interns during the collection move to ensure proper packing and organization; took the lead in reorganizing the collection after the move, a process that included developing a new organization plan based on collection sites and accession numbers; created a collection organization protocol; assisted in adding and removing objects from loans (including packing cultural objects for a move to another park, updating database information for new object locations, ensuring all objects were photographed, and placing returned fossils correctly in the collection); digitized 1200+ herbarium specimens and began the process of editing (through Photoshop) the digital copies for database and public online use; digitized entomology collection and uploaded images to the database; assisted with ongoing inventory and monitoring project of fossil sites; and helped maintain park's collection database. Show less

Boulder, Co

Organized and cataloged invertebrate fossil specimens; entered individual specimen information into database; and assisted in identifying specimens to class and order

Denver, Co

Conducted research on a Chinese Pilgrim bottle in the collection for docents by researching various sources, compiling information in a PowerPoint, and scanning and saving sources for future use by the museum.

Bachelor'S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Bachelor'S Degree, Art History

Nanodegree Program, Programming For Data Science With R