Jesse Victor J. Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, Canada Area

North Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Assessment of water courses for quality as fish habitat, assessing fish population status via seining, trapping, and electrofishing
• Collection, identification, and PIT tagging amphibians and fish, including red-listed species such as the Oregon spotted frog, and the Salish sucker
• Construction-monitoring on agricultural projects, and salvage of fish and amphibians from sites pre-construction
• Riparian habitat restoration and improvement

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Instructing students in a wide array of biological techniques relating to botany, microbiology, and ecology, including: microscopy, water and soil sampling techniques, experimental design, use of clinometres, methods.
• Design and preparation of teaching materials, including: advanced ordering of necessary chemicals, production of plants under greenhouse settings, calibration of equipment (pH metres, microscopes, autoclaves, growth.

• Using standardized environmental assessment protocols to monitor Alberta's northern Boreal forest
• Working long hours, under adverse conditions (dense forest, poor weather, extreme insects)
• Organization of field data, both numerical and descriptive, into coherent databases that can be used for later statistical analysis; performing QA/QC on data independently and with supervisors
• Location and navigation to remote field sites by truck, quad, argo, and helicopter
• Identification of aquatic invertebrates

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Collection of soil and plant samples from remote forest locations on Vancouver Island
• Assessment of soil samples using a variety of laboratory protocols to determine carbon sequestering potential of forest soils related to different logging practices
• Interpretation of laboratory results, report writing
• Use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and R Software
• Maintaining an electronic system for storing all research data

Halifax, Canada Area

• Researching the functional ecology of soil microorganisms, including: protein use and host selection in ectomycorrhiza, and ability of arbuscular mycorrhiza to improve re-vegetation of engineered and degraded soils
• Managing and analyzing environmental data via Microsoft Excel and R; performing QA/QC on data independently and with the principal investigator
• Development of environmental sampling protocols (plant, soil, microbial)
• Communicating research during conferences and public lectures
• Preparation, publication, and delivery of technical research reports

Halifax, Canada Area

• Preparing and delivering 2-hour lectures each week
• Designing lesson plans and assignments
• Grading assignments and lab reports
• Mediating student complaints

Halifax, Canada

• Installation and maintenance of experimental vegetation plots
• Microscopic analysis of plant samples for mycorrhizal colonization
• Quantitative data recording and analysis
• Identification, harvesting, and propagation of native plants
• GPS mapping of plant sample locations

Master’S Degree, Environmental Studies

Conducted novel research into the functioning of symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi within the engineered substrates of.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Biology

Bachelor’S Degree, Physical And Biological Anthropology