As a USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program intern, I utilize geographic information systems, R programming language, Microsoft Excel, vegetation sampling, and plant identification to study landscape dynamics of Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) and visitor impacts on vegetation of the Indiana Dunes National Park

Executed data analysis and conducted ecological laboratory experiments to further current understandings of coastal wetland conservation and invasive species management in Michigan

Applied R Programming Language to model interannual and decadal ice coverage trends in the Green Bay, Lake Michigan and Western Lake Erie regions of the Great Lakes from 1973-2023.Co-authored a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Technical Memorandum.Presented project’s findings during the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory’s Summer Fellows Final Presentation Seminar.

Facilitated data cleaning, outlier analysis, and temporal autocorrelation analysis on water sensor data collected from 24 households in Detroit, Michigan, employing R programming language to study water quality in these neighborhoods

Employed Microsoft Excel to compare 849 sustainability reports from 104 corporations between 2008 and 2012 to analyze if changes in one company’s disclosure method influence other companies’ disclosure methods.

Advocated for mental health counseling, housing assistance, financial assistance, and other necessary resources to enhance client well-being and support clients’ on an individualized basis. Collaborated with supervising attorney to fulfull investigational and logistical requirements for over 20 clients prior to each weekly court hearing.

Oversaw a team of three colleagues to develop and implement a Community-Based Social Marketing campaign to decrease compost contamination rates across campus, furthering university goals to reduce waste sent to landfills by 40% by 2025. Project was conducted in collaboration with the University of Michigan Office of Campus Sustainability.Co-compiled final report to communicate project’s findings, reflect on the project’s successes and shortcomings, and to advocate for a more student-feedback-oriented composting education program at the university. Co-presented a report summary to university sustainability faculty at the 2021 Planet Blue Student Leaders End of Year Symposium.Co-hosted bi-weekly episodes of Season 2 of the PBSL Podcast (Spotify) to educate listeners about sustainability and sustainable living practices.

Assisting customers with technology purchases and device troubleshooting, and aiding other sales departments as needed. Cross trained to work in the Copy and Print department.

Assisted with developing simulation and data analysis software on the Michigan Cluster of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment utilizing C++ and Python programming languages.Summarized findings about the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment’s potential to directly detect and document dark matter interactions with Xenon via Zoom at the UROP 2021 Spring Research Symposium.