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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Manages annual sensor swaps at three aquatic sites and five AOS protocols including groundwater chemistry, sediment chemistry, riparian habitat assessment, rapid habitat assessment and reaeration.Manages temporary aquatic field staff; taking part in the hiring, training, leading and providing technical guidance and constructive feedback to field crews.Collaborated with NEON’s Engineering and Science departments, communicating and organizing efforts and materials, to implement a new ISCO water sampler at ARIK.Led Domian 10.13’s Maximo TIS and AIS sensor inventory audits in 2023 and 2024, and I help led the annual inventory of AIS and AOS sampling supplies including purchasing.Regularly completes monthly schedule statusing for D10.13 aquatics subsystem.A Facilitator of bi-weekly aquatic staff meetings that provide a venue to communicate updates, changes and questions related to field operations across all NEON’s aquatic departments.Domain 10.13 Safety and Security OfficerOutstanding Performance Award May 2024 NEON Employee of the MonthCertifications Ecological Society of America certified Ecologist: August 2023 NEON Electrical Safety Trainer

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Served as the liaison between Aquatic Field Ecologists and Aquatic Temporary Field Technicians and assisted in their training, hiring and day to day management.Supported external research by taking on the management of one the aquatic NEON Research Support Services protocols.Regularly performed data QA/QC for Surface water chemistry protocols, discharge measurements and reaeration, and uploaded the data to the SOM after QA/QC.Assisted with AIS daily remote monitoring of aquatic sensors and ServiceNow ticket writing and commenting to report the troubleshooting steps taken and work completed on AIS tickets. Domain 10.13 Safety and Security Officer

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Took part in regularly maintaining and troubleshooting in-situ stream sensor sets.Assisted with plant phenology, plant diversity, vegetation structure, and leaf area index measurements, plot maintenance and ground beetle sampling protocols.Supervised and trained technicians in aquatic protocols during cross subsystem bouts.

Boulder, Colorado

Part of the team who completed the sampling season for a lake at Niwot Ridge at the top of the Boulder watershed. Data collected was analyzed and published as part of a long-term dataset to http://niwot.colorado.edu/data/data/flowcam-based-phytoplankton-community-composition-for-green-lake-4-2008-ong supporting global science.Mentored 2 REUs in project design and the use of SOPs. At the end of the summer they completed and presented their own independent research project.

Boulder, Colorado

Part of the team who completed the sampling season for a lake at Niwot Ridge at the top of the Boulder watershed. Data collected was analyzed and published as part of a long-term dataset to http://niwot.colorado.edu/data/data/flowcam-based-phytoplankton-community-composition-for-green-lake-4-2008-ong supporting global science.Oriented to the project design, ran and analyzed phytoplankton samples from previous sampling seasons, formatted the data for online publishing in preparation for starting my own independent Master’s research project.

Boulder, Colorado

Processed soil samples from the Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research station so they could be analyzed by graduate students for their independent research.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Master'S Of Science, Environmental Studies

Completed required and relevant course work along with a Master's Thesis Titled: The Effects of Climate Change on an Alpine Lake System.

Graduate Certificate, Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program

Completed prerequisites in advanced-level knowledge of mathematics, calculus through linear algebra and differential equations.

Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Environmental Studies, Magna Cum Laude

Minored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Graduated magna cum laude based on GPA. and completion of an honors thesis. Completed.