Catherine Stolfi Email & Phone Number

Medford, Ny, Us

Bohemia, Ny

• Leads employees for the development of chemical/biological testing specifications for labs globally to ensure that natural products and raw materials are tested to regulation, safety and environmental standards • Technical department documents development including Standard Operating (SOP) and Quality (QP) Procedures• Department system development lead of Oracle program to streamline workflow• Investigates quality issues and solves through project completion, risk and statistical analysis

Hampton, Va

For NASA at Langley Research Center (LaRC), collaborated with team members at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on a project to synthesize water quality trends in the Mississippi Sound for mapping environmental conditions affecting oyster reef health to aid partners in conservation efforts. Utilizing NASA’s Earth observation systems data, our team acquired, processed and analyzed batch data and presented project reports to the NASA DEVELOP National Program Office and NASA Science Directorate. As a NASA DEVELOP Ambassador, responsible for amplifying the presence of DEVELOP and NASA Applied Sciences Programs at Universities and Research Conferences in New York.

Project culminating in a thesis research paper under the direct supervision of Dr. Beth Christensen, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Program Director, Environmental Studies Department• Analysis of oxygen isotope variation mass spectrometry data to determine sea surface water temperature• Presented complex environmental concepts to audience at AGU Fall international research conference in San Francisco Dec 12th – 16th

Hauppauge, Ny

• Provided resolutions for employees, field service engineers, and end-users that included universities, private clinics, and medical & cancer research facilities for an international biotechnology company through review of blue prints, technical documents and manuals for bio equipment• Analyzed shipment trends and worked with logistics to ensure timely shipment of orders o Received extensive training on pipettes, automated workstations, centrifuges, PCR machines, incubators, fermentors, bioreactors, photometers and more

Stony Brook, Ny

• Project to evaluate ecological and evolutionary factors influencing hummingbird diversity in South America under the direction of Dr. Catherine Graham, Ph.D. in the Biology—Ecology Department o Data entry, statistical analysis and organization of species morphological measurements as they related to climate data, locality records, GIS data and phylogenetic relationships o Assisted in hypothesizing on community organization, roles and phenotypic traits utilizing bioinformatics • Project to study the evolution of spatial learning behavior and its underlying neuroanatomy under the direction of Peter Park, Ph.D. Student in Dr. Michael A. Bell’s Lab o Collecting, organizing & analyzing phenotypic trait data of the Threespine Stickeback Fish through measurement of digitized landmarks on captured images using SigmaScan pro program

Town Of Hempstead, Pt. Lookout, Ny

• Intern for the Conservation Biologist III o Analyzed data on water quality and conducted historical research on the bay to translate into a written form for the general public for the Hempstead Waterways Bay Study publication, 2010 o Focus, precision and systematic approaches used to conduct research for the ongoing Shellfish Management Project through daily clam collection from sites in the Bay & data recording of specimen measurements and their classification

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, Ecology & Evolution Concentration

Additional coursework in Physics, Astronomy and Graduate-level Biology courses

Master’S Degree, M.S. Environmental Science, 3.89 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Pi Epsilon - Environmental Sciences Honors

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: College Honors, Cum Laude