Hayley B Email & Phone Number

• Brought into this role prior to the winter overseed process. Quickly developed the irrigation program to water tee boxes and fairways after seeding. This is a 9-hole golf course with a two-person maintenance crew.
• Maintain irrigation system including cleaning sprinkler heads, clearing dirty lines, fixing leaks, leveling sprinkler heads, maintaining pond and pump cleanliness, etc.
• Developed watering programs on 11 different clocks throughout the golf course.
• Mow golf course greens, tees, fairways, rough, and driving range tee.
• Edged and maintained overgrown sand traps.
• Assisted in the overseed process, including verticutting the greens and seeding tees, greens, and collars.

• Was brought in as a second irrigator at an 18-hole golf course. Learned the basics of golf course irrigation and maintenance and was able to learn about evapotranspiration and turf management. Used the Toro Lynx system.
• Maintained golf course irrigation system by locating leaks and shut-off valves, digging and repairing leaks, then covering them with minimal damage to play areas.
• Adjusted and fixed sprinkler heads when needed.
• Assisted superintendent to determine proper water requirements needed throughout the course.
• Monitored pump stations to assure they were running properly and maintained log of water and electric usage.
• Began locating and mapping all shut-off valves on the course to reduce the time it takes to locate one when irrigation line breaks occur.

• Learned how to create beverages as a Starbucks barista.
• Always maintained Starbucks-level customer service.
• Maintained store cleanliness and followed covid-19 protocols.

• Researched innovative approaches to manage cucumber beetle pests, specifically the striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatum), in South Carolina. Objectives include filling in missing life history information.
• Assisted in organic vegetable pest research collecting data on beneficial/pest insect count on various crops under different cultural management practices.
• Started squash seedlings in a Clemson University greenhouse for cucumber beetle research, then transplanted seedlings to an acre of research plot. Collected data on pests/predators present and crop yield with or.
• Spoke with farmers and the public about common agricultural pest problems and integrated pest management approaches to mitigate such problems.
• Assisted in writing project proposals for pest management research.

• Assisted in researching brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halymorpha halys, management tactics for vegetables and overwintering structures while completing M.S. research under the advisement of Dr. Thomas Kuhar.
• Managed experimental setup and data collection for BMSB trapping studies.
• Implemented studies for improving BMSB IPM in vegetable crops including developing a trap-based action threshold for BMSB in bell peppers and deploying insecticide-incorporated netting to reduce the need for.
• Evaluated the efficacy of tactile repellents formulated by Bedoukian Research to reduce home invasions by overwintering BMSB.
• Assisted in numerous vegetable pest management lab, greenhouse, and field experiments while in Tom Kuhar’s vegetable entomology lab.
• Communicated research at outreach/extension events, conferences, and in written thesis.

• Served as a lab assistant in Dr. Tracy Leskey’s fruit entomology lab. Involved in experiments studying behavioral and chemical ecology of invasive fruit pests including the spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii).
• Maintained the spotted wing drosophila colony.
• Prepared and maintained raspberry plants used in spotted wing drosophila studies.
• Assisted in spotted wing drosophila foraging and behavioral studies.
• Assisted with set-up and maintenance of brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, behavioral experiments in the laboratory and field.
• Maintained cleanliness of laboratory and storage spaces.

• Part of a West Virginia state-wide mosquito surveillance study deploying gravid and CDC light traps throughout the eastern panhandle of West Virginia (Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan Counties). This study monitored for.
• Solely responsible for deploying and collecting specimens from mosquito traps in WV’s eastern panhandle as part of a state-wide mosquito surveillance study.
• Maintained trap cleanliness and working ability.
• Performed tick drags to determine the distribution of Lyme Disease in WV’s eastern panhandle.
• All collected specimens were stored and shipped appropriately so they could be identified and analyzed for viruses by the state entomologist Dr. Eric Dotseth.

• Completed senior capstone research, working under Dale Nisbet, monitoring the populations of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) around Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Compared efficacy of standard purple.
• Conducted trapping studies to monitor the presence of the invasive emerald ash borer in Harpers Ferry.
• Assisted in various projects in the park that assessed vegetation consumption by deer, water quality of streams, and karst geology.
• Collected GPS data for different studies and mapped them using ArcGIS.

• Performed weekend receptionist duties and other real-estate office assistance duties.

• Primarily chopped wood for park visitors and maintained park cleanliness.

M.S., Entomology

Ph.D. - Degree Not Received, Entomology

B.S., Environmental Studies : Resource Management Concentration