Emily Perry Email & Phone Number

Honolulu, HI, US

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

• Building the capacity of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Urban Forestry Community Forestry Program to improve the overall health of the urban forest on O'ahu.
• Established and maintained relationships with over 25+ community groups and organizations.
• Planned and executed a series of Arbor Day celebration events for over 1,000 members of the public annually.
• Provided over 50 presentations and lessons about urban and community forestry across the island of Oʻahu.
• Developed and executed communications plans with key messaging to target audiences.
• Drafted press releases to media outlets and communicated messages to the community through press interviews.

Honolulu, Hawai'i

Working as an AmeriCorps VISTA with the City and County of Honolulu in their Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency building the community forestry capacity in an effort to increase the resiliency of O'ahu's communities, especially those vulnerable in the face of climate change. This position focuses on reaching the goal of planting.

Durham, New Hampshire

Assisted graduate students and post- doctoral researchers in their projects associated with forest ecosystems and the relation to global change and management. This includes sorting, weighing, and logging data from Eastern White Pine needle samples from various sites to determine the effects of White Pine Needle Damage in the Northeast. As well as sieving.

Durham, New Hampshire

Aided Masters and Post-Doctorate Researchers in the Terrestrial Ecosystems Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. Focused on the diversity of tree function with carbon cycling and other ecosystem processes. Diversity included tree species, forest structure, functional diversity and more.

Northland, New Zealand

I was part of a small, five-person team that conducted the first nocturnal study of the endemic and threatened Kauri snail (Paryphanta busybi spp.) in the Waipoua Forest Trust to determine population abundance of the species. We established the abundance of the snail species in a study regenerative forest and mature forest through nocturnal and diurnal.

Durham, New Hampshire

As part of UNH's Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, a research proposal was created, developed, and executed studying hydraulic conductivity of White Pine and Red Oak tree species in a drought stimulated and control plot to construct vulnerability curves. The drought tolerance of these two species was determined to aid in the creation of.

Ecoquest Te Rarangahau Taiao

Attended a semester-long academic program based in Aotearoa for applied studies in ecology, resource management, and environmental policy.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Conservation And Sustainability

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega, Amnesty International - Secretary (Fall 2017) and Treasurer (Fall 2018), Student Environmental.

High School

Activities and Societies: Vice President of the Class of 2015, Student Council Secretary, National Honors Society Secretary, Math Team.