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City Island, Sarasota, Fl

Guest/educational docent for Mote Aquarium - provide a welcoming and informational experience for guests from all over the USA and overseas, at each of the Aquarium's open water and touch experience habitats; specializing in guiding school groups and Spanish speaking guests. Also carry out logistical support for Fisheries Electronic Monitoring program; managing inventory information for staff fisheries monitoring equipment, and processing individual fishing trawler voyage catch reports. Am on call as a marine science educational assistant, at programs with students from traditionally underserved and Spanish speaking ELL communtities.

Groton Ct

Volunteer teaching assistant 4 days a week - assisted Project O marine educators on board their 50 foot school research vessels, with programs that providing field learning experiences in Long Island Sound for regional school science classes. Assisted class teachers and Project O staff in all on board activities, including teaching about the geography and hydrology of the LI Sound and Watershed, setting and retrieving full size tow net, sampling seasonal populations of aquatic organisms and associated class activities, and assisted in carrying out abiotic physical and probe based sampling and analysis with students. Specialized in field trips with students from traditionally underserved and primarily Spanish speaking communities. Also assisted in providing assistance in teaching techniques and learning modalities, as well as grant resources. Awesome people and program!

Mystic Ct

Renovated and completely re-organized Collections Research Center's storage center. Reviewed 160,000+ images from historic Rosenfeld photo archives of B & W 20th century boat, yacht, ship, racing, and interior boat design images - selecting 500 images as candidates for future fine art publication.

Mult, Assign; Retired From Thomas Edison Cte Hs, Jamaica Hills, Queens, Ny

Developed, implemented, and taught Marine/Env Science, and Maritime History program; built a dedicated classroom and fish hatchery lab. Program featured hands on, real life, current exploration, research and historical information based curriculum - covering foundation of earth, atmospheric and oceanic structure and processes; maritime history, history of navigation, maps, and their evolution. Surveyed of coastal and oceanic ecosystems from ocean to shore/breadth of water column; unique anatomical features, specialization and behaviors of significant genera and species such as cephalopods, and ocean mammal evolution. Examined environmental impacts, historic and current fisheries and aquaculture practices around the world; issues such as counterfeit seafood marketing in food stores and restaurants, and mercury levels and seafood choices. Students maintained and operated four 40 - 60 gallon fresh and salt water thematic habitats and a 200 gallon trout hatchery, conducted weekly water testing; creating semi annual water quality reports for each system. Cap field project - day long marine science sailing/sampling voyage onboard restored 1887 sailing oyster boat SSV Christine, field trip to Frank Flowers Oyster aquaculture farm, and surveying and collecting organisms on the beach; all in West Harbor - Oyster Bay, Long Island. Cap final activity - from acquired year long knowledge, packets of 17th and 18th century historic documents, maps, and selections from the book "Mannahatta" by Sanderson et al, students simulate a world wide ship voyage in the year 1600, making landfall on Manhattan Island. Students identify wind systems, currents, names of land forms; then make informed decisions of where to land, what to salvage, identify specific local natural resources, how to survive, and interact with native peoples - defending their choices with information and reasoning.

Nyc/Houston/Austin

Fine Art Publisher/Private Dealer/Gallery Owner of contemporary and collectible Native American Art and Antiquities; galleries in SOHO/Austin/Houston, contacts, trading, and sales along 3,000,000 miles of back roads across the American southwest, northwest, the Smoky Mountains, and the Gulf Islands, BC.

Soho Nyc

Handled day to day operations, exhibition curating, and sales at major SOHO contemporary Native American Fine Art gallery; bilingual liason to South American ndigenous artists.