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Sacramento, California, United States

• Create conceptual model of soil health identity for California, reflecting regional groupings of soils that share similar suites of soil properties to diagnose soil health
• Create a conceptual model of soil health response to various management practices and their effect on ecosystem services

• Solved challenging problem of parameterizing a statewide hydrologic model
• Designed and wrote R code for a regional scale resource analysis integrating large geospatial datasets to identify agricultural water savings
• Investigated how watersheds are responding to climate change through data visualization of complex spatial and temporal datasets, multiple non-linear regression, and trend analysis
• Developed experimental design to understand relationship between environment and plant growth at a California rangeland site using network of sensors and data loggers NSF-IGERT trainee in "Climate Change, Water, and.

Gazelle, CA

• Developed and supervised GIS based multivariate analysis of suitable land to guide short and long-term land acquisition strategy to meet company growth forecasts
• Conducted cogent financial analyses for 20,000 acre farm and ranch to justify projects to stakeholders
• Solved wide variety of technical problems related to irrigation system control, farm operations, and multi-species grazing logistics
• Guided 40% increase in annual forage/hay production on 800 irrigated acres from 2011 to 2014 during historic drought
• Overhauled irrigation system by improving pump efficiency and control at 11 groundwater pump stations

Athens, GA

• Used multivariate analysis techniques for estimation of soil properties in the field
• Quantified deep soil water uptake in forests with hydrologic modeling software
• Used ArcGIS and GPS technologies for precision forestry applications

Athens, GA

• Evaluated the long-term effects of varying land management strategies on soil properties and nutrient fluxes, writing MS Thesis entitled, “Soil change after three decades of conventional till, no-till and forest.
• Taught Soils and Hydrology undergraduate labs for two semesters
• Developed computational and coding skillset with Statistical Analysis Software

Newton, GA

Ecological research work, such as tree identification and measurement, plot fertilization, soil sampling, plant tissue drying and grinding, root anatomy, mycorrhizal fungi sampling, and mini-rhizotron photography.

Carazo, Nicaragua

Established 2 acre multi-species fruit orchard, assisted in restoration of 20 acre coffee plantation, developed home vegetable gardens, and designed and planted a 6 acre forest restoration project using native Central American tree species.

Wales, North Carolina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, And Virginia

Included 4 week internship in CSA based vegetable production in Wales, 8 week internship in organic agriculture and sustainable ag research at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in North Carolina, 5 month internship in all aspects of organic vegetable and fruit production in Virginia, and volunteering as a farmer on farms in Ecuador and Costa.

Soil Sciences

Master Of Science - Ms, Forestry And Natural Resources

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, English, Botany

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Park Scholars