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Charlottesville, VA, US

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

As Director of Policy Initiatives at the Center for Open Science, I oversee and implement strategies to improve policy in scientific publishing and funding, summarized in the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines, TOP. These policies include data sharing, comprehensive reporting, and registering empirical research to address biases in analysis and.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

In this position, I worked with researchers, editors, and software developers to increase transparency and reproducibility in research outputs. I worked to encourage the practice of preregistration: specifying study details before results are known. This position required detailed project management, and identification of technical, legal, or educational.

Charlottesville, VA

In my role as Citizen Science Project Coordinator, I designed online collaborative spaces at www.collaborativescience.org. These spaces allowed volunteer citizen scientists to first learn about scientific investigations, and then to create projects based on student need and interest. The citizen scientists were members of the Virginia Master Naturalists, a.

Division Of Life Sciences, Rutgers University

While working as the Director of Advising, I was the primary advisor to undergraduate students majoring in the Biological Sciences. I managed the undergraduate mentorship and research program between faculty and students, served on undergraduate honors research committees, and coordinated award nomination processes. I taught "Biology, Society, and.

Graduate Program In Ecology And Evolution

My dissertation research included work in sexual selection, African cichlids, behavioral ecology, and undergraduate student retention in the sciences. My research in behavioral ecology required both field and lab work with African and Costa Rican cichlids. While working on my dissertation, I managed teaching assistants in General Biology in my role as Head.

Rutgers University

Working with faculty in the Program in Science Learning, I investigated the role of mentorship styles on undergraduate perceptions of science. I also designed a program for increasing broad scientific literacy through undergraduate research. In my role as graduate mentor (switching to Faculty Mentor in May, 2011), I oversaw undergraduate research projects.

New Hampshire

As a field biologist, I monitored the reproductive success of breeding Common loons in central New Hampshire. I also provided outreach and education to informal learners through summer programming.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology And Evolution

Dissertation Title: Implications of Intraspecific Behavioral Interactions on the Evolution of the Mbuna Cichlids of Lake Malawi and the.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology

High School