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San Marcos, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Stephenville, TX

Assisted with identifying and applying to grants for a recently created nonprofit with a mission of creating sustainable harvests, promoting research, and supporting landowners in Africa. Future work will entail development of research programs giving undergraduates and graduate students the opportunity to investigate ecological and natural resource issues.

San Marcos, Texas, United States

Designed ecological research projects. Performed arthropod and herpetological surveys in the field for use in own projects and those of colleagues. Analyzed data collected in the past to examine negative synergistic effects of invasive insects and habitat disturbance on arthropod prey utilized by an endangered amphibian.

Greater New Orleans Area

Set up labs, ensured consistent curricula, and taught a mid-level biology course for undergraduates at UNO. Duties included coordinating teaching assistants, giving short lectures, guiding students through computer simulations and live-animal experiments, grading student worksheets, and recording/keeping grades.

Greater New Orleans Area

Taught an introductory biology laboratory to undergraduates at UNO. Duties included short lectures, guiding dissections, guiding students through an independent research project, writing and administering practical exams and quizzes, and recording/keeping grades.

Greater New Orleans Area

Received, annotated, and submitted genetic sequences isolated from various Herichthys (cichlid) species to Genbank using the submission tool BankIt for Dr. Darrin Hulsey. The accession numbers will be published in the research paper Population Genomic Evidence Reveals Subtle Patterns of Differentiation in the Trophically Polymorphic Cuatro Ciénegas.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Taught human anatomy and physiology to undergraduates at Texas A & M University. Duties included short lectures, facilitating dissections and power labs, writing and administering practical exams and quizzes, and recording/keeping grades.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Taught introductory biology to undergraduates at Texas A & M University. Duties included lecturing, facilitating hands-on activities, writing and administering practical exams and quizzes, and recording/keeping grades.

San Marcos, TX

Assisted genetics laboratory with field and lab work. These duties included contributing to a literature database, cataloguing genetic samples for curation in an on-campus repository, and collecting, measuring, and recording specimens from drift fences and pitfall traps in the field.

San Marcos, TX

Monitored debris removal efforts in Bastrop, TX by chainsaw, knuckle boom, and skid steer crews in order to ensure best management practices and compliance with additional guidelines outlined in a debris removal consultation generated by a collaborative group of federal, state, county, and private elements.

San Marcos, TX

Conducted roadway audio surveys for native Texas herpetofauna via recognition of breeding call acoustics to determine relative abundance for a long-term monitoring project. This work occurred during Summer months only.

San Marcos, TX

Taught a genetics lab to undergraduates at Texas State. This included making presentations, doing hands-on work with laboratory equipment, making/grading quizzes, grading papers, and calculating/recording final grades.

San Marcos, TX

Taught an anatomy and physiology lab to undergraduate students at Texas State. This included lecturing on dispensed material, making/grading quizzes, papers, and practicals, and keeping grades.

Sherman/Denison, Texas Area

Created and taught curricula for a month-long course in field biology for advanced 10-12 year old students through the Duke Talent Identification Program. The curricula involved exceptional education of students in taxonomy, field identification, field collection, sampling techniques, and statistical analyses of plants, arthropods, herpetofauna and mammals.

San Marcos, TX

Taught a herpetology lab to undergraduate and graduate students at Texas State. This included making presentations, inventorying and maintaining a collection of preserved herpetological specimens, making/grading quizzes and practicals, and recording grades.

San Marcos, TX

Taught a genetics lab to undergraduates at Texas State. This included making presentations, doing hands-on work with laboratory equipment, making/grading quizzes, grading papers, and calculating/recording final grades.

Moravia, IA

Assisted with the production of channel catfish and walleye for stocking in Iowa’s public water bodies. Conducted water sampling (D.O., temperature, turbidity, pH, chlorine levels, ammonia levels), transferred fish from starting tanks to ponds to public water bodies, assisted with treating water with potassium chloride and formalin to avoid the spread of.

Miller, MO

Worked in Southern Missouri to manage a 900-acre tract of private land for wildlife habitat and aesthetics. Duties included sampling water quality, assisting on controlled burns, conducting forest inventory plots, preparing reports, controlling invasive species, and reviewing management plans.

West Plains, MO

Worked with Missouri Dept. of Conservation employees taking inventory on forested state and private land using a Trimble and GPS unit; marked timber; conducted TSIs (thinning using a chainsaw and herbicide); attended interdivisional meetings; became familiar with MDC book keeping activities (keeping a time sheet with correct work codes, properly recording.

Columbia, MO

Sampled Missouri River for assessment of certain species, with particular interest in pallid sturgeon. Sampling field duties included working with setting nets, drift nets, and shocking. Measuring/lab work included weighing/measuring fish, PIT tagging fish, scale aging, and sampling habitat sediment, current speed and turbidity of local waters.

Columbia, MO

Processed insect samples (identified to order and counted insects in sampling traps), conducted field work (laying traps, collecting insects), and maintained artificial habitat for insect culture in a greenhouse.

Columbia, MO

Traveled extensively in northern Missouri to forested areas, often in inclement weather and among nuisance wildlife. Used GPS backpack units to establish plots, then sampled the number of individual trees in an area, the amount of basal area per acre, the average diameter at breast height of each tree species in a sampling area, and cored to determine the.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Integrative Biology

Activities and Societies: Association of Southeastern Biologists Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biology, General

Activities and Societies: Texas Herpetological Society Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Discussion Group Animal Behavior Society Southwest.

Bachelor'S Degree, Fisheries And Wildlife

Activities and Societies: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Society Society of American Foresters

Bachelor'S Degree, Forestry

Activities and Societies: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Society Society of American Foresters