Michael Chase Email & Phone Number

Albuquerque, NM, US

• Supervised one of the first NGO-led obsolete river barrier removal projects in Portugal in collaboration with ANP|WWF (Associação Natureza Portugal & WWF Portugal) and the Municipality of Santarém.
• Complete scoping and impact assessments for all construction and development planned on site for potential impacts to biodiversity and habitat quality, recommending alternatives if necessary.
• Oversee data management for a biodiversity surveying and documentation program, across 27 hectares.
• Assist in grant and funding applications as well as partnership outreach.
• Handle the recruitment and training of new interns and volunteers in the department.

Portugal

• Developed a biodiversity action plan to guide future work of SOS Animal-Portugal.
• Implemented biodiversity surveying and documentation guidelines for a 27 hectare property, utilizing camera traps and AI-assisted identification methods, that is both easy to learn and trainable across language.
• Developed intervention strategies to mitigate livestock-vegetation disturbances in areas of high priority growth.
• Improved streambank health and surface water flow through the removal of accumulated plant material and root systems of the invasive 'giant cane' (Arundo donax).
• Carried out field work and planting to promote shorter-term biodiversity gains as tree planting and reforestation work continues.

• Completed Preliminary Green Status of Species assessments for European freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida)
• Synthesized results to inform EU conservation policy on the most important conservation actions for bivalve recovery and the protection of provided ecosystem services.
• Collaborated with members of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Mollusc Specialist Group and Green Status of Species Integration Task Force.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Served as a teaching assistant for a general biology course of 90 students (Fall 2021) and a microbiology research lab course of 32 students (Fall 2022).
• Assisted students approach coursework by promoting critical thinking of course material.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Educated guests about resident animals and the rehabilitation and conservation work of the organization through educational talks and personal interactions.
• Promoted animal and guest safety at several open water animal habitats across the facility.

Virginia, United States

• Conducted over 300 fecal hormone extractions on samples collected from a male-female pair of Guam Kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus).
• Conducted competitive immunoassays to measure corticosterone concentrations in extracted samples.
• Utilized existing and collected concentration data to help determine pair compatibility through hormone concentration patterns and reproductive success.
• Research process and data was presented during a virtual research conference of Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation students and conservation professionals.

Sarasota, Florida, United States

• Awarded a grant from Mote Marine Laboratory to complete a REU internship (Research Experience for Undergraduates).
• Worked in the Marine Microbe Research lab to characterize a carapacial dermatitis affecting nesting female green sea turtles in Sarasota County.
• Bacterial samples were collected from “healthy” and “affected” areas of individual nesting turtles and isolate intensity were quantified using math from serial dilution to identify potential suspect species. Antibiotic.
• Carried out the culturing, isolating, characterizing, and purifying bacterial samples collected from sampled nesting female green sea turtles on Sarasota County beaches.
• Presented findings during a poster session highlighting the work completed by Mote Laboratory interns during the summer of 2021.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Promoted from a volunteer to paid associate.
• Educated guests about the animals and work of the aquarium by giving public presentations, leading private tours, and interacting with guests by showing them educational animal anatomy props teaching them educational.

Master Of Science - Msc, Global Change: Ecosystem Science & Policy

Joint university program with Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. GPA: 3.79

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Science & Policy

Degree GPA: 4.00

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Integrative Animal Biology

Degree GPA: 3.68

Certificate, Endangered Species Conservation

Associate Of Arts - Aa

All 60 A.A. credits were earned while enrolled in high school and taking a full course load of high school classes.

High School Diploma, 3.7 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Science National Honors Society (SNHS) National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Helping to tutor chemistry and.