Ann Rasmussen Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Aurora, Oregon, United States

Support the Vegetable and Specialty Seed program, which covers over 100 crops. Develop a Swiss army knife of skills as needed with responsibility for 5-8 concurrent experiments. I pilot our small unmanned aircraft (drone), process a variety of imagery and numeric data, and host an occasional podcast.

Central Point, Or

Molecular and culture-based work to understand diseases of pears and wine grapes.

Oxford, Ms

• USDA National Needs Fellow – Forest Restoration Ecology• Conducted independent research on fungal community response to restoration• Internship in restoration and fire ecology (East Kootenay, British Columbia)• Analyzed data• Supervised undergraduate assistants

Portland, Oregon Area

Assisted in invasive plant management and restoration monitoring, including mapping treatment areas, plant identification (native, invasive, and otherwise), herbicide application, and improving and standardizing data collection tools. Guided contractors in identifying treatment areas in the field and maintained herbicide use records for internal reports.

Portland, Oregon Area

I supported the Northwest Region's Service Excellence Department - taking minutes, scheduling meetings, and preparing reports.

Guam

I coordinated UOG's sustainability programs, including solid waste management, alternative energy, student/community activities, and grantwriting.

I supported twelve directors, managers, and supervisors in the operations departments of Kaiser Permanente Northwest (supply chain, logistics, food service, etc), as well as a ton of "other duties as assigned" - project management, administering room scheduling software, maintaining web sites. I coordinated the Green Team, including setting up a carpool program and writing a grant to fund bike lockers.

Worked for an organic farm producing plant starts, vegetables, and dried flowers. Specialties included garlic and tomatoes. Cared for farm in absence of farmers, alone over weekends, with a coworker for a week.

As an Americorps member, I planned a study of Oregon's emergency food system, began data collection, and made preliminary reports using census data and mapping software.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biology, Forest Ecology

Activities and Societies: Assisted in planning campus native plant garden. Judged local and regional science fairs at all grade levels..

Biology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Assisted with research involving arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Completed coursework including Genetics.

Permaculture Design Certificate

Completed an internationally recognized program in sustainable design under Toby Hemenway. Coursework included a redesign of a Portland.

Ba, English, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Debate team, Model UN, band, county symphony, mentored elementary students