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San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

Wetland delineationResource agency permitting and environmental complianceProject managementVegetation community mappingCEQA/NEPA technical report drafting and submissionFocused sensitive plant and wildlife species surveys and reportingHabitat management planningData analysis

San Diego

Surveys and mappingRestoration planning and implementationReport writing and research

Worked on a variety of research projects focused on impacts of climate change on local San Diego ecosystems, including rising temperatures, altered rainfall regimes and nitrogen deposition.Conducted research into the effects of rising sea levels on Southern Californian salt marsh communitiesCollected and analyzed data for the Nutrient Network Collective. A global research collaboration interested in the effects of climate change on plant communitiesGained experience with plant identification, vegetation mapping, experimental design, instrumentation to quantify local climate conditions, and soil analysis for chemical and organic content

Assisted in teaching the Biodiversity and Evolution lecture courses and Ecology Laboratory course (three quarters)Led discussion sections and held office hours to expand students’ understanding of course materialMentored students in field data collection, data analysis (using the R statistical software), and scientific writing

Researched conservation and restoration methods for the coastal cactus wren (California Species of Special Concern)Participated in implementing, quantifying and analyzing results from multi-species restoration projectsUsed GIS to locate and map cactus wren nests and territories on the Wild Animal Park natural reserve.Participated in riparian restoration projects and helped design them for multi-species conservationResults presented at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research's yearly seminar of land managers, biologists, consultants and restoration ecologists hosted by the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research

Received a competitive summer fellowship based on an independently written grant proposal to investigate whether growth of native and invasive plant species were limited by different soil resources.Conducted a greenhouse experiment and subsequently collected and analyzed soil samples for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contentPresented final results (published on the Kearney website: http://kearney.ucdavis.edu/)

Master'S Degree, Environmental Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Aa, Chemistry