Dana Samelson Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Serves as a Project Scientist responsible for completing site assessment projects in accordance with the ASTM Standards for various clients, including land developers, lending institutions, and private property owners. Projects entailed evaluation of commercial sites such as automotive repair facilities, commercial/industrial properties, multi-family residential sites, manufacturing operations, and undeveloped lands, thereby providing a broad range of experience with differing site characteristics, requirements, and locales. • Conducts PCAs at various locations to evaluate the condition of site improvements and estimate short-term and long-term repair and maintenance costs. Tasks have included field reconnaissance, historical research, building materials and cost research, communication with local zoning authorities, and the production of associated site plans and reports.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Served the Environmental Services line of the Building and Construction department conducting Phase I ESAs for primarily commercial and industrial sites, and assisting with Phase II/soil & groundwater sampling, and IAQ monitoring.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Served the Building & Construction department conducting proposal and report writing and site reconnaissance for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments. Report writing includes the review and interpretation of aerial photographs, city directory information, topographic maps, USGS soil survey maps and wetland maps.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Provided prompt and courteous organic waste removal services for customers on my designated route. • Maintained consistent communication with customers via email and phone.• Communicated operational issues and changes to supervisor on regular basis.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Developed and facilitated environmental stewardship and outdoor activities for girls and training modules for volunteers to increase their comfort level in leading outdoor activities.

Riverview, Florida

• Assembled waste stations at events to achieve zero-waste efforts.• Educated and interact with curious visitors on composting and help them sort their waste.• Collected data at the end of events by recording final weights of each waste stream.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Facilitate groups along low and high rope courses at USF’s Riverfront Park for various groups of people, ranging from elementary schoolers to corporate groups.• Plan activities according to each group’s needs/goals (i.e. team building, communication, ice breakers, etc.).• Conduct safety demonstrations and equipment checks.• Has facilitated a total of 2400+ participants over 400 hours.Accomplishments: -Awarded Employee of the Year for 2019 for USF’s Campus Recreation program -Created a self-directed sustainability internship in order to work on reducing outdoor recreation’s waste

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Conducted surface water quality sampling of the Tampa Bay watershed and checked samples into the chemistry and biology laboratories according to standard procedures. This entailed using a beta water sampler to collect the samples and using the secchi disk to measure water quality.

Jerusalem, Israel

• Worked as an intern at this non-governmental organization that works to bring together people from different religions/cultures to talk about environmental issues. • Attended the Religion and Sustainable Consumption Workshop at Hebrew University.• Attended the Interfaith Climate and Energy Conference.• Managed the social media pages and website.

Maitland, Florida

• Helped facilitate a variety activities for campers (5-6 year olds). Includes food prep, swimming, playground time, reading/puzzles, and other enrichment activities. • Assisted with carpool mornings and afternoons.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Science And Policy

Activities and Societies: Student Environmental Association, USF Hillel, Chabad at USFRelevant Courses: General Chemistry, Biology, Global.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor's Society, Varsity Girl's Tennis, Junior Civitan Club, One Earth Club