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San Francisco Bay Area

Sacramento, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

-Wrote lectures and graded exams and other assignments.-Held office hours to assist undergraduates with comprehension of material.-Taught fundamentals of taxonomy and systematics of animals and the fundamentals of biologicalprocesses to class sizes of ~25 to 30 undergraduate students.-Aided and accommodated lectures, exams, and office hours for special.

• Fostered and created relationships between students, faculty, and staff at San Diego State University and scientists at other academic, governmental, or private institutions with the goal of enhancing collaborative.
• Coordinated and managed speaker visits to SDSU, including travel to and from San Diego, and budgeted travel costs, meals, and hotel stays.

• Led a team of 20 graduate students and 30 volunteers, I was responsible for coordinating MEBSA’s largest public outreach initiative that attracted over 800 attendees from the San Diego community.
• Organized presentations, kid and adult friendly lab activities, and donations during San Diego States Coastal Marine Institute open house.

La Jolla, CA

• Aided in field sampling operations by gathering biometric data, collecting blood and tissue samples, and attached tags to Thresher sharks, Mako sharks, and Yellowtail on various research cruises
• Processed and analyzed catch composition, diets, migration, and reproductive states for various fish species including Tuna’s, Yellowtail, Swordfish, Lancetfish, and King of Salmon. Stomach contents of fish were.
• Identified prey species using reference guides and cataloged species to the lowest possible taxon.
• Aided in developing an ecosystem-based approach to sustainably manage and monitor highly migratory species.
• Maintained accurate and organized datasheets in Microsoft Excel.

La Jolla, California

• Participated on a project aimed at aging fish to identify metrics necessary for rebuilding and maximizing reef fisheries in the tropical pacific.
• Helped to process and identify stomach/otolith samples of various fish species including snappers, grouper, parrotfish, damselfish, and tangs collected from the tropical pacific.
• Created maps of coral reefs surrounding pacific islands using ArcGIS.
• Worked with photoshop to identify coral recruits/juveniles within a section of a coral reef on Palmyra Atoll.

Honolulu, Hawaii

• Analyzed and Participated in field research experience by collecting and identifying specimens from native Hawaiian forests.
• Handled, and Processed collected Specimens in a lab, to properly organize for further DNA analysis and data basing using excel.
• Use Photoshop to digitalize pictures of specimens to arrange in journals or presentations

• Cleaned pelagic tuna tank thoroughly to insure a clean environment for experiments to be conducted in.
• Keep accurate log of food type, weight, time of feeding, and overall food consumption with excel for all sharks and tunas to insure that the fish were healthy for experimentation.
• Fed all Sandbar, Hammerhead, and Black Tip Sharks as well as Yellowfin tunas.
• Observed and noted any irregular behavior and unusual physical appearance of sharks/tunas.
• Responsible for a clean work environment.

San Francisco Bay Area

Master'S Degree, Ecology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General