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Bozeman, Mt, Us

Bozeman, Mt, Us

Performing and developing geospatial and quantitative analyses in support of country and global programs, such as improving diagnostic networks for disease testing and treatment;Refining and automating methods for increased efficiency and creating stronger deliverables

National Student Services Contract position managed by ORAUProcessing and analyzing various raster and vector files, including LiDAR and moderate to high resolution satellite imagery, for land cover classifications and change detection using Google Earth Engine and ArcGIS Suite along with open source codeWriting and editing Python scripts for downloading and organizing data as well as process automation, including interacting with APIsMaintaining data, metadata, and thorough… Show more National Student Services Contract position managed by ORAUProcessing and analyzing various raster and vector files, including LiDAR and moderate to high resolution satellite imagery, for land cover classifications and change detection using Google Earth Engine and ArcGIS Suite along with open source codeWriting and editing Python scripts for downloading and organizing data as well as process automation, including interacting with APIsMaintaining data, metadata, and thorough documentation of methodologies for managing and processing data for reproducibility Show less

Programmatically sorting and analyzing spreadsheets of survey data for a research program to identify trends and areas for improvementDrafting scientific publications for research showing outcomes of project-based learning

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Analyzing species distributions through ground truth images to understand the ecotone surrounding the Blake Ridge cold seep for implications towards deep sea disturbances such as mining and trawling

Meadowview, Virginia

Helped to maintain chestnut seedlings in a greenhouse setting, growing and maintaining chestnut blight cultures, and inoculating trees to test the blight resistance of various breeding crosses. I also assisted with the processing of pollen as well as bagging and pollinating flowers for controlled breeding.

Tropical Biology Lab

Studying the heat tolerance of tropical plants to by measuring physiological processes related to carbon sequestration at various temperatures to understand how rising temperatures affect photosynthetic rates and how this could impact the future global carbon flux and rate of climate change

Performing cell passages for staining with stains such as Alamar blue to measure metabolism of cells using a plate reader and Hoechst to stain nuclei to obtain cells counts through microscopic images using fluorescence to better understand the effects of Damselfish Neurofibromatosis

Cleaning and maintaining tanks of zebra fish

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Filtering and analyzing samples of algae using a fluorometer to determine causes of harmful algal blooms along the coast of Florida

Master Of Environmental Management, Ecosystem Science And Conservation

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Marine Sciences