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Clackamas, Oregon, United States

Clackamas, Oregon, United States

• Operate automated trailers used to clip adipose fins and inject coded wire tags into the snouts of juvenile salmonids at ODFW hatcheries
• Troubleshoot and repair complex network of computers, cameras, motors, and other electrical and mechanical equipment
• Coordinate with hatchery staff on clipping/tagging operation logistics
• Supervise crew of up to four hand clippers to ensure fin clip quality and efficiency
• Recover coded wire tags from snouts, then read, record, and verify the codes

Clackamas, Oregon

• Operated electrofishing boats in the Columbia and Snake rivers near the shore, at night, in swift water
• Netted and tagged northern pikeminnow for sport-reward fishery, using pit, floy and spaghetti tags
• Collected diet samples from northern pikeminnow by euthanizing and removing digestive tract, and from smallmouth bass and walleye using gastric lavage
• Measured, weighed, and collected scales from northern pikeminnow, walleye, and smallmouth bass
• Trailered, repaired, troubleshot mechanical issues and performed maintenance on boats
• Assembled, organized, checked, maintained and loaded equipment before and after fieldwork

Bering Sea; Gulf Of Alaska

• ~620 days deployed in the field
• Independently created and implemented sample designs on commercial fishing vessels to collect species composition data and biological samples used for fisheries management
• Trained new observers in the field and ensured quality sampling protocols, data entry and safety
• Identified, counted, measured and weighed fishes, invertebrates, seabirds, and marine mammals
• Determined sex and collected samples (i.e., otoliths, scales, fin clips, and snouts) from fishes
• Maintained sampling gear

Clackamas, Oregon

• Operated electrofishing boats in the Columbia and Snake rivers near the shore, at night, in swift water
• Netted and tagged northern pikeminnow for sport-reward fishery, using pit, floy and spaghetti tags
• Collected diet samples from northern pikeminnow by euthanizing and removing digestive tract, and from smallmouth bass and walleye using gastric lavage
• Measured, weighed, and collected scales from northern pikeminnow, walleye, and smallmouth bass
• Trailered, repaired, troubleshot mechanical issues and performed maintenance on boats
• Assembled, organized, checked, maintained and loaded equipment before and after fieldwork

Zion, Illinois, United States

• Sampled Lake Michigan nearshore fishes, benthic invertebrates and plankton using gillnets, plankton nets, Van Dorn sampler, Ponar sampler from ~30 ft. boats in Lake Michigan
• Assembled, organized, checked, maintained and loaded equipment before and after fieldwork
• Worked in a small team to dissect fishes to collect stomach, otoliths and anal fin spines
• Prepared and read otoliths and anal fin spines to determine age of fish
• Prepared, catalogued and organized fish and invertebrate samples
• Identified macro invertebrates found in benthic samples

Flagstaff, Arizona, United States

• Wrote protocols, created identification guides and data entry spreadsheets
• Identified terrestrial arthropods, using dichotomous keys and a reference collection
• Wrote quarterly progress reports for Dugway Proving Grounds ecological survey
• Managed, organized, proofread, then entered data collected from projects in the field and in the lab, into Microsoft Excel and Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)
• Utilized Microsoft Excel to manage and manipulate large data sets