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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Duties include: soil collection activities, including soil-auger sampling and classification of soil and rock samples; wetlands investigation and delineation; geophysical investigation using ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity; groundwater monitoring and sampling; GIS and geospatial analysis; environmental investigations and records review.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I worked with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association to establish and maintain a program for Urban Eco-Steward stream monitoring in Nine Mile Run, Frick Park. Duties included writing procedures and instructional manuals, designing and maintaining a master database for data entry, assisting with Eco-Steward training.

Pittsburgh, PA

As a graduate student researcher studying urban hydrology and stormwater management, I developed a project to estimate the limits of infiltration in Allegheny County in order to evaluate the effectiveness of infiltration-based green infrastructure as a stormwater management option. Duties included collecting and analyzing soil moisture data, characterizing.

Geology Department, Paleoclimatology Lab

I participated in a research study using beryllium-10 cosmogenic dating to analyze the extent of the Jacobshavn glacier in Greenland during the Holocene. Duties included crushing and sieving glacial moraine rock samples, using LST heavy liquid for mineral separations, treating samples using HF mineral etching procedures to isolate quartz, and performing.

Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

I worked as an intern at PNNL in the Energy and Environment department testing Foam Delivery Technology for the in-situ remediation of radionuclides. Lab work included generating foam with remedial amendments and injecting into flow cells, conducting digital image processing using Avizo software, performing saturated transport and BTC experiments, and.

Lockport, NY

Summer position with the USDA surveying areas of Western New York for quarantined plant species affected by the plum pox virus. Duties included identifying plant species pertinent to virus survey, mapping homeowner properties, contributing GIS data on plant survey using ArcInfo, and educating the public on USDA quarantined species and known pests.

Chicago, IL

Duties and skills earned: collection and culturing of fungal species, soil nutrient analysis, characterizing soil physical properties, ecological assessment, prairie and wetland conservation initiatives, PCR and gene sequencing

Master'S Degree, Geology And Planetary Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Geology, Biology

Activities and Societies: UB Geology Club, SA Environmental Affairs Department, Environmental Stewardship CommitteeSumma Cum Laude