Cole Oost Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Supervise and administer one of the largest volunteer programs in Los Angeles at a beloved, conservation-focused Zoo and Botanical Garden.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and coordinate over five hundred personnel for essential assignments ranging from education ambassadors to animal food preparation and more.
• Utilize proficiency with various software programs to manage and maintain volunteer databases.
• Write, edit, and distribute weekly newsletters and other crucial… Show more
• Write, edit, and distribute weekly newsletters and other crucial communications.
• Provide creative and scientific input for a wide variety of special events, such as education stations, native garden installations, and member walks.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Served as a leader in education, outreach, and communications at the nation’s top public university.
• Revived and reinvigorated all outreach activities including science education, K-12 field trips, public tours, lectures and events, volunteer programs, and garden membership following pandemic-related closures.
• Guided all internal and external communications ranging from website/social media to public presentations.
• Collaborated with world-renowned scientific researchers to… Show more
• Collaborated with world-renowned scientific researchers to promote public engagement with plants.
• Developed and taught original, engaging science curricula to UCLA students and local community members.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Examined thousands of herbarium specimens and citizen science records to determine how the flowering behaviors of Southern California’s native desert wildflowers are responding to climate change.
• Utilized R and other advanced software to analyze data, create maps/figures, and generate publication-quality reports.
• Earned an MS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation with highest honors.

La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States

• Delivered friendly frontline customer service at a 165-acre living museum of plants.
• Executed crucial operations such as daily admissions, guest assistance, new employee trainings, communications, first-aid response, technical support, office administration, and more.
• Crafted interpretive materials and assisted with numerous special projects and educational events as needed.

Los Angeles

• Led educational tours through a diverse 7.5-acre garden for mixed audiences including 1st-12th graders, UCLA students, and visiting adults.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed customized lesson plans geared toward K-12 students covering a variety of different subjects including biology, mathematics, and the humanities.
• Utilized Socratic and Dialectic teaching styles to target specific problem areas while cultivating critical thinking and organizational skills in young learners.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Collaborated on a multimillion-dollar government project, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, as part of the upcoming Eisenhower Memorial honoring the 34th President of the United States.
• Constructed complex metalwork using custom spot-welding machinery alongside a team of skilled artists and engineers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Worked on a six-month-long joint project in collaboration with the U.S. National Park Service to inform federal conservation practices following the Woolsey Fire.
• Responsible for managing a small group of volunteers in establishing a field transect and constructing quadrat sampling stations at a remote site in the Santa Monica Mountains.
• Oversaw detailed analyses of fire severity and documented the short-term, post-fire recovery of native and invasive plant species as well as… Show more
• Oversaw detailed analyses of fire severity and documented the short-term, post-fire recovery of native and invasive plant species as well as terrestrial invertebrate populations. Show less

University Of California, Los Angeles

• Utilized perspective as a past facilitator to help current student educators better prepare to lead their own seminar courses at UCLA.

University Of California, Los Angeles

• Undergraduate Student-Initiated Education (USIE) is an innovative program designed to provide a select group of juniors and seniors with the opportunity to develop and teach a lower division seminar course for their.

Los Angeles

• Contributed to the work of senior researchers in the lab through experiment set-up and cleanup, organizing reagents, preparing solutions, handling hazardous waste, running western blots and more.
• Later, conducted my own experiments on host-pathogen interactions in HIV.
• Through this, gained skills in operating equipment such as spectrophotometers, centrifuges, autoclaves, and biological safety cabinets, as well as in practices such as performing DNA digests, tissue culturing… Show more
• Through this, gained skills in operating equipment such as spectrophotometers, centrifuges, autoclaves, and biological safety cabinets, as well as in practices such as performing DNA digests, tissue culturing.

Northridge, California

• Facilitated field research by collecting and preserving samples of invertebrate and algal populations from intertidal communities along the coasts of Northern California and Oregon.
• In the laboratory, prepared specimens for genetic analysis and assisted senior lab members in performing various DNA extraction protocols.

Master Of Science - Ms, Ecology, Evolution, And Conservation

Degree with Distinction

B.S., Biology, General

Honor's Collegium Departmental Honors Latin Honors (Cum Laude) Deans Honors UCLA Achievement Scholar

Intensive Physics Program