Anna (Weyers) Blades Email & Phone Number

Watrous, Nm

Responsible for day-to-day operational aspects of coordinating, planning, and carrying out various duties at Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge

Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge

Responsibilities: • Cataloged progress and provided support for Big Muddy Visitor Contact Station Maintenance Action Team(MAT) project. • Published MAT project summary to 2015 Green Book for Congressional overview• Worked with engineering and contracting staff to organize facility projects on the Refuge.• Planned and implemented work assignments involving technical, biological and habitat restoration/development projects for the Refuge. • Prepared reports on progress and completion of studies and projects for the Wildlife Refuge Manager and other senior management.• Participated in interview process for selecting interns and served as secondary supervisor and mentor for Pathways Interns and Student Conservation Association Career Discovery Internship Program. • Served as Refuge Collateral Duty Safety Officer (CDSO). • Assisted Region 3 hydrology staff with maintenance, checked data loggers and recorded measurements using a flow tracker at Swan Lake NWR and Loess Bluffs NWR.• Archived FWS employee training information for Region 3 Heavy Equipment Coordinator.• Assisted with Refuge Annual Performance Plan (RAPP), Real Property Inventory (RPI), Pesticide User Permit System (PUPS), Geographic Information System (GIS).• Worked with Refuge staff and contractor to complete the Big Muddy NFWR Habitat Management Plan. • Operated heavy equipment for native grass and forb planting. • Represented Big Muddy NFWR/NWRS at meetings with partners and public events. • Managed the planning and execution of school group presentations and public events. • Proficient in records management and familiar with FOIA processes. • Facilitated partnership meetings and strategic planning for partnership development for the Urban Wildlife Conservation Program at Two Rivers NWR. • Editor for the Big Muddy NFWR website and Facebook page.• Aided Loess Bluffs NWR to edit and update kiosk panel information for visitors and Refuge.

Mingo National Wildlife Refuge

• Breeding bird surveys• Hack and Squirt tree management • Feral hog monitoring• Anabat bat surveys• Snake Mortality surveys• Pollinator surveys

Spring 2013 I taught two sections of Anatomy and Physiology II (BS 014) lab along with proctoring and grading for A&P I and II lecture instructors. Labs include the dissection of cow eyes, sheep kidneys, fetal pigs, pregnant rats and covered the circulatory, respiration, reproduction, digestive, renal. and sensory systems.

Greenville, Il

I assisted professors with lab preparations, lab exam set up and take down, proctored tests, and graded papers.

Rydell/Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

• Vegetation monitoring: Which included use of robel pole, modified belt transect• Collection and identification of plants • Participated in Western Prairie Fringed Orchid survey• Invasive Species control, which included hand pulling and mapping • Data entry of vegetation monitoring• Surface water monitoring using a Flowtracker• Ground water monitoring • Gave tours of the refuges to visitors• Helped with visitor service programs• Participated in Four Square Mile Bird Survey

Illinios River Refuge

• Data entry of water bird surveys • Participated in water bird survey• Collected and identified plants • Abnormal frog monitoring• Bald eagle surveys• Round goby, bighead and silver carp survey

Masters Of Natural Science, Biology

Thesis: ESTABLISHMENT OF FERAL HOGS ON MINGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Biology