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Ithaca, NY, US

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• work with Leo dos Santos in ExoSTScI on exoplanet transit spectroscopy with HST data

• Prepare, deliver, and promote STEM education activities across North Dakota, with an emphasis on DEIA and outreach
• Collaborate on dynamic projects with diverse team skill sets, formal and informal educators, to achieve institutional goals

The ExoExoplorers program is sponsored by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Office and ExoPAG Executive Committee and focuses on the professional development of ~12 early career exoplanet researchers. See my presentation on the ExoExplorers Archive [https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/exoexplorers/exoexplorers-presentations-archive/]

Grand Forks, North Dakota

• 4000 hours over 8 years experience of operating day and overnight, documenting, and maintaining department three-telescope observatory and all instrumentation for masters thesis research and classroom instruction
• Took responsibility for and sustained specialized institutional knowledge of astronomical observatory operation with no prior experience
• Independently reestablished and configured abandoned and inoperable telescopes, instruments, hardware and computer software allowing execution of exoplanet transit photometry thesis project and doubling of observing.
• Apply judgement and expertise as sole department member with knowledge to continuously troubleshoot and maintain facility, both in nightly operation and daytime servicing
• Share recommendations for repurposing and acquiring new equipment, solutions to pedagogical obstacles at meetings with observatory director and department chair
• Lecture on observatory operation to advanced undergraduate students, train new operators, develop unique technical manuals and telescope operation documents

Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States

• Full responsibility for lecture content, assignments, exams, grades, classroom tech management for interdisciplinary science course of department specialties: astronomy, planetary science, human spaceflight.
• Taught 300+ undergraduate students over six semesters, including before- during- after- pandemic; incorporated in-person/hybrid/remote teaching strategies
• Continually updated and adapted lecture material to meet student interests and current events

• Conceived, planned and executed first department conference to bring together on-campus and online student communities to share diverse research goals, networking
• Directed conference content, drafted all conference material, solicited and collected presentations, organized schedule and locations
• Expanded efforts for second year to include other departments within UND and students from other universities totaling over 50 participants; invited and hosted keynote speaker local astronaut Jim Buchli
• Goal is to become the premiere student space research conference in the Midwest

Greenbelt, Maryland

• Worked with principal investigator on Aurorasaurus Citizen Science project during summer internship resulting in journal publication in Citizen Science: Practice and Theory
• Developed basic IDL proficiency to process raw data from thousands of reported space weather and aurora events into usable trends and statistics for publication
• Fostered relationships with scientists and interns during summer to leverage relevant specialized expertise from space weather prediction Community Coordinated Modeling Center
• Transcribed knowledge of heliophysics concepts into series of web articles hosted on citizen science blog

Grand Forks, North Dakota Area

• Lead department high altitude ballooning (HAB) research activities to enable transition from faculty to student-lead program
• Planned and managed two different three-month long research programs for teams totaling over 150 K-12 students in designing and launching experimental payloads
• Coordinated with K-12 students, teachers and my graduate student peers to direct successful experiments and safe, efficient balloon launch and recovery

Centerport, New York

• Presented original live shows from memory, integrating seamlessly with music, visual effects, planetarium projector and computer equipment to large (>60+) audiences several times a day, while holding a microphone
• Communicated in relatable way to public topics like astrobiology in the solar system and beyond, exoplanets, our place in the Milky Way and Universe, the Fermi paradox, Earth history, mythology/folklore of night sky

• Developed and verified procedures for 10 undergraduate astronomy lab activities on topics including Kepler’s Laws, solar rotation of sunspots, Mars mission propulsion costs, crater analysis, geologic survey of Jovian.

• Developed strong interpersonal communication skills by networking faculty to student organization leaders across campus
• Mastered daily and varied equipment setups, including projectors and microphones, for student clubs and administrative meetings
• Supervised employees, scheduling, training, emergency procedures, discipline
• Maintained security and cleanliness of building space through routine checks, occasionally during overnight events

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace Science (Space Studies), 4.0

Dissertation: "Modeling the Architecture and Water Content of Exoplanet Systems by Pebble Accretion: The PPOLs Model" Research interests.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Space Studies, 4.0/4.0

Research interests: • exoplanet transit photometry • astrobiology & planetary habitability • paleontology & history of Life

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, 3.3/4.0

Activities and Societies: 2012 - 2013 - President, Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society • Minor: Biology • Minor: Environmental Science.