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Leadville, CO, US

Eagle, Colorado, United States

• Assist with developing strategic priorities and goals for the Natural Resources work group
• Develop a monitoring program for the department that will inform adaptive, ecological management of over 1,600 acres of public lands
• Develop and manage a research project, including contractor supervision, to identify and evaluate over 1,700 negotiated environmental protections from land use to determine landowner compliance, guide policy.
• Negotiate mitigation actions for impacts to the environment caused by development
• Assist with installing low-tech process based log structures and monitor log structures to assess overall condition and function to achieve stream restoration goals
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary group to analyze Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2 water and wastewater treatment facilities to recommend strategies that reduce emissions to move towards net-zero goals

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Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Managed vegetation and soil monitoring field work to inform federal rangeland management and wildfire recovery decisions, including hiring, training, and supervising 8 field staff, planning field work logistics.
• Performed geospatial and tabular analyses and interpretation on ecological and climate data at continental and regional scales using Esri ArcPro and R Studio to determine distributions of at-risk ecosystems, overall.
• Scripted models in R Studio for range-wide, ecological climate change vulnerability analyses
• Created spatial, landscape-scale climate change adaptation zones for 10 ecosystems based on climate change vulnerability model outputs and recommended climate adaptation management strategies to federal clients
• Acquired, curated, and processed ecological and climate geospatial data in various data formats
• Developed complex data analysis workflows and modeling scripts and maintained process documentation

• Organized, processed, and managed land use, human population, protected area, modeled sea-level rise, and modeled carbon sequestration spatial data
• Entered processed spatial data into an analytical decision support model to provide climate resilience planning support for coastal marine environments
• Identified and corrected errors produced from the analytical model

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Coordinated and supervised 24 episodic ecological restoration volunteer work projects and 3 community ongoing volunteer programs, including volunteer training events
• Assisted with determining departmental restoration needs and developing volunteer projects to meet workgroup goals
• Planned and implemented native plant surveys to collect plant material for ecological restoration projects
• Followed vegetation monitoring and soil sampling protocols to inventory and monitor native plant species and collect data on habitat restoration activities
• Recorded and managed native plant survey data in Microsoft Excel
• Performed site visits and supervised subcontractors at restoration sites

Boulder, Colorado

• Managed, entered, and analyzed vegetation data into a natural resources inventory and treatment database using Microsoft Excel and ESRI ArcGIS to report on noxious weed management program status
• Created and delivered maps in ESRI ArcGIS of native plant occurrences and noxious weed infestations and treatment areas to use in field monitoring surveys

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Assisted with designing conservation research projects to provide solutions supported by science for environmental impacts caused by anthropogenic use of natural resources
• Effectively communicated with government authorities, program managers, and environmental experts to learn about specific biodiversity mitigation policy and practices
• Interpreted and synthesized reports on current biodiversity mitigation legislation, policy, and practices to determine standards and provide suggestions for best practices
• Attended a stakeholder workshop on rangeland management practices to contribute scientific advice to an ongoing sustainable grazing research project aimed at preserving prairie ecological biodiversity
• Identified and reported on the key ecosystem impacts caused by industrialized agriculture on Monarch butterfly habitat to support ongoing Monarch conservation projects
• Determined and analyzed current assessment methods used to measure resilience of socio-ecological systems to climate change

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Assisted with a biological conservation experiment of Salmo trutta (brown trout) by performing field work related to capturing, tagging, measuring size, photographing, and collecting tissue samples to determine.
• Contributed to writing a published manuscript on results from the study
• Managed an experimental evolution study without supervision on Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) related to candidate genes responsible for aging and lifespan
• Increased probability of candidate gene performance by completing genetic recombination and amplification and various maintenance tasks related to caring for thousands of individual D. melanogaster specimens

Boulder, Colorado

• Identified, inventoried, and monitored non-native plant species in a variety of ecosystems to assist in the restoration of native ecosystems after a major natural disturbance event
• Performed site condition assessments for site area, characteristics, and ecological integrity to evaluate disturbance, noxious weed infestations, and determine long-term natural resources management needs
• Maintained detailed records of performed invasive species treatments and restoration activities to keep field data organized
• Managed, entered, and analyzed vegetation data into a natural resources inventory and treatment database using Microsoft Excel and ESRI ArcGIS to report program status
• Traveled extensively and regularly communicated with private landowners throughout the Front Range region to convey conservation and restoration efforts occurring on public lands
• Expanded my skill set by collaborating with different Forest Service departments, including: the forestry crew; wildlife; abandoned mine land remediation; trail building and maintenance; and flood recovery.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Managed a research project in conjunction with an Arizona copper mine comprised of multiple weekly and monthly soil, water, and plant tissue samplings
• Performed environmental water quality sampling in the field
• Coordinated, inventoried, organized, and prepared ~400 samples every 3 months for chemical extraction and analysis
• Identified and recorded experimental data in a computer database and prepared final laboratory reports

Master'S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Spanish Language And Literature

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Botany/Plant Biology

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors