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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Claremont, California, United States

Assists the Administrative Curator and herbarium curatorial staff with various aspects of herbarium operation, including specimen preparation; accessioning and barcoding specimens; sending and receiveing of loans, gifts, and exchanges; specimen filing; data entry and georeferencing; specimen imaging; and integrated pest management.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

San Marino, California, United States

Assist the Plant Records and GIS Mapping Specialist with maintaining plant records and producing labels and signage for the living collections. Help manage inventory and mapping of the living collections. Assist in other projects at the Huntington.-Worked on ARK 2023 project by updating Biological Recording Units (taxon range), ecoregion, CITES appendix.

Kenneth S. Norris Center For Natural History

Emptied, reorganized and labeled by Family & Order ethanol collection of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish. Organized and condensed entomology teaching collection of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera collections. Worked on pest control management of Mammal and Bird specimens by checking for desmids, freezing infested collections and sanitizing cabinets..

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Maintained daily and special watering schedules for orchids, mangroves, Joshua trees, cacti, and oaks. Provided plant care, including weeding, planting, transplanting, pruning, and fertilizing. Propagated plants by division, cuttings and by producing plants from seed, for research (restoration, physiology, conservation research), course instruction (Plant.

Kenneth S. Norris Center For Natural History

Created an Herbarium Teaching collection of the common plants of the UCSC campus by cross referencing the "The Natural History of UC Santa Cruz Campus" 2nd edition plant list with the common plants we have at the Norris center by checking if each species was within the CCH2 database. Worked with the Herbarium curator to identify which specimens on the list.

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Responsible for conducting seed bank increases for rare California native plants (Holocarpha macradenia, Trifolium spp., Plagiobothrys spp., Silene verecunda subsp. verecunda, Penstemon rattanii var.kleei and several others) in order to promote genetic diversity and for conservation purposes. Planned, executed, and monitored a long-term dormant seed.

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Worked with the Norris Center Herbarium Curator and volunteers in mounting pressed plants specimens, adding barcodes to plant specimens, digitizing specimens, merging digitized images with existing herbarium label information on CCH2, transcribed missing data, made annotations and added accessioning numbers on CCH2.

-Instructed students and faculty on how to sign up for COVID-19 testing and answered general questions about testing and turn around time-Guided students and employees to check in and through self -testing swabbing techniques-Ensure swabbing kiosk were properly stocked and that all swabs, gloves and waste material were properly disposed of-Adhered to all.

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Worked with the Norris Center and Cal Poly curators to learn the scientific use of herbarium specimens. Helped transcribe and interpret herbarium labels on Notes from Nature and CCH2. Learned how to digitize plant specimens and find current location on a map in a process called georeferencing within the Consortium of California Herbaria data portal (CCH2).

East Los Angeles, California, United States

Helped enrolled high school/ middle school students in College Level courses by assisting students with applications, collecting paperwork and hosting workshops. Organized and conducted campus tours, tabling events and presentation workshops highlighting campus programs, enrollment processes, financial aid and campus policies. Served as a liaison between.

Cudahy, California, United States

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General

Associate Of Arts - Aa, General Studies: Natural Sciences

Activities and Societies: ELAC Environmental Outreach Club ( President 2018- 2019 & Delegate 2019 -2020 ), Center for Community College.