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Albany, NY, US

New Paltz

Capture and tag striped bass, Atlantic sturgeon, and shortnose sturgeon for population estimates and management using gill nets and electrofishing equipment throughout the Hudson RiverProficient installing PIT and internal anchor tags, removing scale samples, and operating 500-foot fishing nets for fish captureTrack sonic tagged diadromous fish via Lotek™.

New Paltz, NY

Served as the program coordinator for Mohonk Preserve's volunteer-based deer management program.Annually applied for Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) permits and distributed to effective huntersAnnually coordinated the operation of the Preserve’s deer check station.Evaluated biological impacts of Preserve activities in written reports.Drafted.

Albany, New York Area

Mist netted and banded passerine bird species for USGS MAPS and fall migration projects.Conducted passerine bird point counts to evaluate avian population responses to management.Re-sighted color-banded prairie warblers to conclude a 5-year survivorship study.Executed distance sampling for generating Karner blue butterfly population estimates.Evaluated.

Constructed predictive models of emergence phenology for the invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, their native congeners, and their associated parasitoid guild based on degree-day accumulation throughout New York State. Examined ecological interactions between S. noctilio, native woodwasps, and their shared guild of parasitoids using general linear models.

Quincy California

Examined habitat selection by spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Executed call back and reproductive status surveys, banding, and forest inventory analysis plots.

Henderson, Nevada

Examined tortoise habitat selection and survival rates of translocated individuals and modeled the distribution of black brush across the Mojave Desert. Employed radio telemetry to track tortoise movements, behavior, and associated vegetation. Traversed the Mojave to map the distribution of black brush. Supervised SCA interns.

Quincy California

Examined habitat selection by spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Executed call back and reproductive status surveys, banding, and forest inventory analysis plots.

Baring, Maine

Conducted fieldwork for maintaining/increasing waterfowl and American woodcock populations. Duties included mist netting, trapping, banding of waterfowl, woodcock and common nighthawks, establishing forestry plots and adjusting water impoundment levels for habitat manipulation, translocating problematic species, and vernal pool assessment and indexing. Led.

Orono, Maine

Provided Section 7 Environmental permit reviews under the ESA, screening all new development projects coming into the state against critical habitats of endangered species. Provided letters of concurrence if project proposals were not deleterious to listed species or critical habitats. Also conducted literature searches for projects under review (Eastern.

Bangor, Maine

Aided with population recovery of Atlantic salmon to historically native rivers and streams. Electrofished, trapped, PIT tagged, and transported adults to Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery (broodstock) and took scale samples. Colloborated with USFWS for broodstock program.

Master Of Science (3.7), Fish & Wildlife Biology And Management

Bachelor Of Science (3.6), Wildlife Ecology (Concentration In Conservation Biology)