Responsibilities:• Prepared and manufactured equipment for field research• Obtained crew chief status to operate airboats• Collected structural and compositional data on endemic plants and trees• Collected elevation, soil, and water data• Assisted in developing field methodology• Established new research sampling plots• Established airboat trails to navigate the Everglades, via GIS and Google Earth Pro• Operated research vehicles and airboats (both for over 100 hours)• Scanned, organized, and entered collected data via Excel• Assisted any lab personnel with miscellaneous objectives• Filed float plans with ENP• Read, understood, and presented scientific literature

Responsibilities:• Fieldwork: collected data, operated airboat, operated research equipment• Identified over 50 species• Collected relevant certifications• Studied GIS and R• Read relevant scientific literature