• Program management of multiple Reclamation WaterSMART financial assistance programs simultaneously, including the Environmental Water Resources Projects and Cooperative Watershed Management Program. • Develop program funding opportunities and facilitate multidisciplinary teams to review grant applications.• Evaluate programmatic impacts of current/proposed policy, regulatory requirements, and proposed and existing legislation on the WaterSMART Program. • Use analytical techniques to develop, evaluate, and revise directives and standards, guidelines, and programmatic processes to ensure the effectiveness of the WaterSMART Program.• Represent Reclamation in multi-agency coordination and interagency task forces, and coordination and outreach to stakeholders via one-on-one inquiries, conferences, workshops, and webinars.• Brief Reclamation senior management, Reclamation and Department of the Interior leadership, and the Office of Management and Budget.• Prepare and manage multi-million-dollar annual appropriations and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law budgets.• Coordinate various programmatic activities within Reclamation, including post-selection grant management, compliance, and trainings.

• Served as the Program Coordinator for Reclamation WaterSMART Small-Scale Water Efficiency Projects funding opportunity. Co-coordinated the Cooperative Watershed Management Program and Environmental Water Resources Projects funding opportunities.• Managed competitive grant selection processes, including coordination across Reclamation and briefing leadership on grant selections and outcomes.• Represented Reclamation in outreach to stakeholders and the public via one-on-one inquiries, conferences, workshops, and webinars.

• Assisted with coordination of several WaterSMART programs simultaneously, including development of funding opportunities, facilitation of grant reviews, review of grant modifications, budget management and reconciling expenditures, and briefing leadership.• Completed programmatic outreach through presentations and answering one-on-one programmatic inquiries.

• Served as a host for the Friends of the Zoo Snore & Roar overnight camping program with participants ranging from six years to adults• Provided educational tours focusing on species life history traits and conservation efforts and successes • Organized and facilitated zoo themed games

• TAed for Calculus for Life Science Majors, Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology I• Communicated science and mathematics concepts to undergraduate students both in a classroom setting and individually during office hours• Graded assignments in timely fashion and maintain organized records of grades and attendance• Collaborated with professors and other TAs to prepare for discussion and laboratory sessions

• Conducted plant invasive species surveys in the Frederick Municipal Forest to assess the impacts of roads and trails on the spread of invasive species• Results suggested roads the major pathway for invasive plant species • Performed literature research to determine the potential ecological impacts of the invasive species• Presented findings and recommendations to the Frederick City Board of Aldermen

• Reviewed federal documents (ESA listings, species five-year review, recovery plans), scientific literature, and species distribution data in order to define an area that should be listed as critical habitat for endangered species• Mapped proposed critical habitat areas and endangered species ranges using ArcGIS• Wrote endangered species biological profiles for petitions and comments submitted to federal agencies

• Collaborated with two other graduate students to complete quantitative risk assessment to determine the risk of spreading chytrid fungi through amphibian imports and the impacts of various regulatory actions• Performed literature research, interviewed stakeholders and experts, and summarized amphibian import data from the Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS) to inform this risk analysis.• Provided regulatory recommendations to USFWS via formal presentation and written report

• Received National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate grant for work done during summer of 2010• Collaborated with graduate student to design experimental protocol and complete experimental trials trials• Examined changes in gene expression in the female guppy’s (Poecilia reticulate) brain using small animal microscopy and RNA extraction due to exposure to novel stimuli• Performed preliminary observations on sexual behaviour of P. picta

• Designed and conducted studies and wrote an undergraduate thesis investigating the maintenance of genetically based color polymorphism via female mate preference in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)• Found significant evidence that a female guppy prefers males that are different than the one that most recently courted her• Presented research at the 2012 International Conference of Poeciliid Biologists and the 2010 joint Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society and the International Ethological Conference• Result in published journal article in Ethology