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Panama

• Assist with field (e.g. transplanting, weeding, harvesting, etc.) and lab work (e.g. seed processing, data collection, etc.) alongside staff scientists
• Ultimately working to develop a regenerative agriculture system based on perennial grains and polycultures (intercropping of several crops within the same field)

Alamosa, Colorado

• Full-time (40+ hours/week) volunteer through Mennonite Voluntary Service
• Developed and lead environmental education curriculum for three one-week Summer Adventure Camps for participants Grades 4-12
• Led activities related to watersheds, pollinator conservation, and soil health for the San Luis Valley Boys & Girls Club
• Organized bilingual farmer trainings on topics ranging from marketing to crop planning
• Developed a legally-recognized service cooperative for commercial farmers renting farming plots on the Rio Grande Farm Park
• Coordinated the maintenance, stewardship, planning, and implementation of projects and tasks on the Rio Grande Farm Park

Alamosa, CO

• Pick up food products from local producers
• Organize and palletize orders from individual restaurants/grocers
• Package and prep bulk products (e.g. making 25-lb bags of beets, chop carrot sticks)
• Deliver orders directly to customers

North Newton, KS

Prepared labs to be performed each week for the BIO120 students and assisted students throughout lab period.

North Newton, KS

Helped students struggling in biology, chemistry, physics and Spanish courses on an individual, as-needed basis at the Center of Academic Development for Bethel College.

North Newton, KS

- Maintained analytical equipment (e.g. Flame Emission Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, IR Spectrophotometer, Gas Chromatograph, etc.) - Graded General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry assignments- Prepared labs for General and Organic Chemistry courses

Panama City, Panama

Helped work on a research project entitled, "What are the consequences of shared enemies for the community structure of a tropical forest?" under Principle Investigator Dr. Brian Sedio.

Avondale, Pennsylvania

Designed my own research project entitled "Optimization of qPCR Techniques to Determine Environmental DNA Transport in Stream Systems" (Principle Investigator: Dr. William Eldridge)At the end of this 10-week research period, I presented my research at a poster presentation for the Consortium of Universities of the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc..

Bachelors, Biology, General

Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Studied abroad in the Galápagos Islands while taking courses in Tropical Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Marine Ecology, and Novel.