Marie Reil Email & Phone Number

Vargas Plateau Regional Preserve And Mission Peak Regional Preserve

Park Ranger for Vargas Plateau Regional Preserve and Mission Peak Regional Preserve. Specific areas of work are summarized below.• Maintain park grounds and infrastructure. • Provide assistance to the public. • Weekly test potable water sources (3) with Hach Pocket Colorimeter; treat with bactericide. • Weekly check and maintain Reconyx security cameras (6).• Weekly check and maintain TraFx people counters (4). • Monitor grazing operations and annually collect Residual Dry Matter (RDM) data using field data sheet and, more recently, an iPad collector. • Conduct general vegetation survey at RDM sites. • Generate RDM data summary reports using Excel spreadsheet and EBRPD Parkview Geographic Information System (GIS) software. • Monitor and manage invasive vegetation species with Integrated Pest Management (IMP) practices (e.g., mow, line trim, spray, hand scythe, etc.). • Track and report implemented IMP practices using iPad collector, Parkview, and Excel spreadsheet. • Use PowerPoint software to display photos for reports to supervisor and other EBRPD managers.

Mission Peak Regional Preserve

Temporary Park Ranger for Mission Peak Regional Preserve.• Maintain park grounds and infrastructure. • Provide assistance to the public.

Diablo Foothill Regional Park - Castle Rock

Summer Gate Attendant.• Greeted visitors and collected park fees for pool. • Maintain visitor and revenue logs. • Answered park user questions and provided maps, brochures, and directions as needed. • Maintained kiosk area.

Work gap - used opportunity to travel and explore. Helped others by volunteering and assisting with a variety of tasks. The following is a summary of the skills I have applied or honed during this period of time plus other voluntary duties performed. • EBRPD Park Volunteer: assist Park staff with daily duties including replacing sign post, repairing fence and automatic sprinkler system, trash pick-up, and clean/stock restrooms. • Construction Laborer: assist building panel fence, sheetrock work, and interior painting.• Landscape Laborer: assist with cleaning debris and weeds from property including cane grass.• Cost Analysis Researcher: research and provide detailed cost analysis for services including gravel delivery, wood fencing, funeral homes, home security systems, personal help alert systems, tree work, and shower conversion.• Personal Home Organizer: work with client to organize home interior including filing paperwork, packing breakables for storage, as well as consolidating collections and photographing art pieces.• Driver: provide client transportation to doctor’s appointments, grocery shopping, and day trips.• Photographer: photograph weddings, birthday parties, and private get-together's plus some video camcorder recordings.• Hospice Assistant: provide human resource support for dying patients and other family members as needed including transportation, food preparation, and companionship.• Computer Knowledge: Windows 7; MS Office including Word and Excel with some PowerPoint and Access experience. Some knowledge of Windows 8.

Duties included assisting with various field surveys and managing the field equipment for the Berkeley and Davis offices. Specific areas of work are summarized below.• Collect, synthesize, analyze, and manage environmental data.• Write memos, summaries, and reports using data generated spreadsheets, tables, and graphs.• Measure, record, and monitor vegetation restoration sites for multiple-year plant survival/growth. Growth was calculated by measuring stem growth, height and dripline area.• Carry out Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) invasive species eradication monitoring study by measuring vigor and plant growth over time.• Survey stream long profiles and cross-sections using self-leveling level. • Conduct pebble counts at cross-sections as well as fine sediment evaluations and photos documentation. • Assist with particle size analysis using sediment sieves on site and in the lab with an electric shaker.• Conduct fish surveys using a variety of field methods. Data collection included identifying and measuring each captured fish before releasing it back into sample area.• Test and analyze water samples in the field to determine their content and characteristics with YSI multiparameter water quality sonde. Also, monitor sediment pass-through test with turbidimeter.• Survey stream cross-sections for instream flow study by taking velocity flow measurements with a Marsh-McBirney flow meter. Record cross-section substrate and photo document sites. • Purchase and maintain field equipment inventory; test and calibrate instruments following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques; Company-wide management of field equipment including inventory, purchasing, and equipment repair.• Monitor ground water level with level logger; monitor and maintain crest gauges with ground cork.

Berkeley, Ca

Performed timed counts of dehiscing catkins (cottonwood and willows) for a phenology study on Tuolumne and San Joaquin Rivers. Assist with sandbar transect vegetation survey and ground water monitoring. Collect tree ring bore samples with increment borer for sugar pine and white fir tree ring study. Entered data into Access database and Excel spreadsheets.

Walnut Creek, Ca

Oversee team of contractors and laborers during remodel and preparation for sale of four (4) residential houses. Preformed some painting and small construction work.

Davis, Ca

While a student, work part-time for two separate professors (J. Mount and D. Sumner) and two separate graduate students (M. Rains and N. Stevens). Assist with vegetation survey, soil pit evaluation, ground water measurements, pebble counts, sediment sieving and particle size analysis, literature research, and data entry using Geographic Information System (GIS) software.

Duties included the following:• Propagate trees and shrubs from seed and cuttings for wildlife habitat program.• Water, fertilize, and control weeds in greenhouse and shade-house facilities.• Maintain grounds by mowing (using tractor, lawnmower, and gas-powered weed eater), spraying, using mulch and competing plants or hand weed control. • Plant grasses and vegetation on stream banks for erosion control projects. • Recruit, coordinate, and direct large volunteer work force for nursery program (100 plus). • Teach elementary students about soil, water, and/or wildlife with hour-long, hands-on activities.• Assist public by answering questions and provide natural resource information. • Conduct field surveys of wildlife habitat and wrote management plans for private landowners.• Develop, write, and distribute factsheets about local plants and wildlife habitat. • Reviewed and commended on local County development plans to address adverse effects to the area’s natural resources.• Perform all aspects of office management including word processing, report preparation, and document production.

Worked on common, joint programs for the three resource conservation districts. Additional time was roughly split three ways on specific district programs. Duties included the following: • Manage all aspects of plant production for local wildlife habitat program which included propagating trees and shrubs from seed, coordinating large volunteer work force, distributing plant material to local participants, and maintaining greenhouse and lath house facilities.• Provide resource management recommendations to District landowners. • Provide hour-long, hands-on, environmental education program for elementary school-age students about soil. • Assist USDA Soil Conservation Service (aka: Natural Resources Conservation Service) biologist in waterfowl nest search in the Yolo Bypass. • Attend monthly district meetings to report work progress.