Jeff Guertin Email & Phone Number

• Capture sea turtles from the Florida Power & Light St. Lucie Nuclear Plant’s intake canal via tangle nets, dip nets, and hand capture methods
• Record morphometric data and insert inconel and PIT tags to captured sea turtles before release
• Conduct nesting surveys on 16km of beach to record data for leatherback, loggerhead, and green sea turtles
• Assisted in the collection, transport, and rehabilitation of sea turtles affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010

• Laboratory Instructor for Biodiversity (4 semesters)
• Laboratory Instructor for Biological Principles (3 semesters)
• Laboratory Instructor for Comparative Vertebrate Morphogenesis (1 Semester)

Boca Raton, FL

• Assisted Ph.D. student Christine Bedore with the collection, transport, and husbandry of cownose and Atlantic stingrays
• Techniques used include collection of elasmobranch species using a gill net, transport and acclimation to the laboratory environment, and daily monitoring, feeding, and medicating of captive research animals

• Assisted graduate student Cody Mott with the collection, transport, and husbandry of juvenile green turtles from shallow reefs in Palm Beach County, FL
• Utilized SCUBA equipment to facilitate the collection of turtles by hand

• Tutored junior high through college level students in all academic subjects, with a concentration in the areas of math and science
• Assisted in developing and compiling test preparation materials for workshops, focusing on SAT preparation

• Assisted the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program with their monitoring efforts of the Sarasota Bay population of bottlenose dolphins
• Assisted Ph.D. candidate Katherine McHugh with behavioral observations of focal juvenile bottlenose dolphins within Sarasota Bay

Washington, DC

• Managed and allocated funds for a six-figure budget for the Telephone Outreach Program
• Oversaw the training and supervision of more than eighty employees
• Raised over $600,000 in one fiscal year for the University through direct telephone fundraising
• Analyzed financial and performance statistics for future improvements to the calling program
• Successfully increased the average call time, average gift amount, overall pledge percentage, overall total dollars raised, and overall total number of donors compared to previous fiscal years

• Streaked and cultivated patient specimens to isolate a variety of infectious diseases
• Managed database of specimens for testing and reporting of results
• Assisted laboratory personnel with gram staining and other testing procedures as needed

M.S., Biology

· Adviser: Dr. Michael Salmon · Master's Thesis Topic: Regional differences in migratory activity by hatchling loggerhead sea turtles.

B.S., Biology

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, University Honors Program

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