Conducted passive acoustic monitoring for a geophysical survey collecting core samples for a potential offshore wind farm in the North Atlantic Ocean. In charge of passive acoustic monitoring field operations for duration of project. Conducted acoustic monitoring to detect and identify cetaceans in the mitigation zone. Responsible for set-up and maintenance of towed hydrophone array and acquisition and monitoring hardware and software. Responsible for compiling and writing the acoustic… Show more Conducted passive acoustic monitoring for a geophysical survey collecting core samples for a potential offshore wind farm in the North Atlantic Ocean. In charge of passive acoustic monitoring field operations for duration of project. Conducted acoustic monitoring to detect and identify cetaceans in the mitigation zone. Responsible for set-up and maintenance of towed hydrophone array and acquisition and monitoring hardware and software. Responsible for compiling and writing the acoustic detection summary and daily reports. Worked closely with drill crew, marine crew, and visual operations crew to actively clear areas and monitor during operations. Show less

Contracted as the co-lead for the acoustics portion of the survey. Responsible for set-up and maintenance of towed hydrophone array and sonobouy system. Conducted acoustic monitoring to detect, identify, and localize marine mammals along line transects in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Operated tracking software consisting of data-acquisition and geographic plotting software (VisSurvey), and acoustic data acquisition and localization software (ISHMAEL and PAMGuard). Responsible for quality… Show more Contracted as the co-lead for the acoustics portion of the survey. Responsible for set-up and maintenance of towed hydrophone array and sonobouy system. Conducted acoustic monitoring to detect, identify, and localize marine mammals along line transects in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Operated tracking software consisting of data-acquisition and geographic plotting software (VisSurvey), and acoustic data acquisition and localization software (ISHMAEL and PAMGuard). Responsible for quality assurance/quality control of all data collected. Responsible for compiling and writing of the acoustic detection summary and the acoustics survey report. Assisted in visual operations throughout the survey to locate and identify marine life. Performed XBTs and CTDs daily. Show less

In office Acoustics Project Manager:Acted as the in-office manager of various acoustic data analysis projects, such as whistle and click classifiers and cetacean response to noise. Experience inventorying and managing large data sets. Responsible for supervision of data analysts and interns. Responsible for quality control/quality assurance on large data sets. Experience performing statistical analysis using R. Experience using R for calculating summary statistics, and creating… Show more In office Acoustics Project Manager:Acted as the in-office manager of various acoustic data analysis projects, such as whistle and click classifiers and cetacean response to noise. Experience inventorying and managing large data sets. Responsible for supervision of data analysts and interns. Responsible for quality control/quality assurance on large data sets. Experience performing statistical analysis using R. Experience using R for calculating summary statistics, and creating histograms, and box plots. Assisted in writing reports, publications, and presentations Field Acoustician:Contracted as a field acoustician for 5 NOAA research surveys, including sperm whale tagging, killer whale tagging, and line transect surveys. Main responsibilities include assisting in set-up and maintenance of towed hydrophone array. Conducting acoustic monitoring to detect, identify, locate and track killer whales. Operating tracking software consisting of data-acquisition and geographic plotting software 
(Whaletrack II and VisSurvey), and acoustic data acquisition and localization software (ISHMAEL and PAMGuard). Monitoring Sonobouys using both ISHMAEL and PAMGuard using the DIFAR module. Assisting in visual operations throughout the survey to locate and identify marine life. Bioacoustic Data AnalystResponsible for analysis of various types of acoustic data. Main responsibilities include identification and logging of marine mammal calls from autonomous recorders using Triton (custom Matlab software). Additionally performed analysis for species 
presence/absence and diel patterns. Assisted in development of PAMGuard click classifiers. Assisted in sperm whale coda classification using PAMGuard software. Show less