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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Performed care and maintenance across garden areas including alpine, North American, and temperate Asian collections as well as Nitobe Memorial Japanese Garden. Assisted with production activities at the gardens nursery. Supervised and provided instruction for students in the gardens horticulture program.Performed an extensive renovation of an overgrown "winter" garden shifting focus of the collection to an open woodland of primarily Mediterranean trees, shrubs and perennials. This renovation included the installation of a new automatic irrigation system, inventories, pathway construction and drainage work.

Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

Lived and worked at a production nursery in Victoria, Australia. Performed nursery tasks including watering, fertigation, grading material for sale and preparation of cutting material. Maintained nursery grounds and buildings.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Assisted with installation, care and maintenance of garden collections.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Assisted in the development and teaching of sampling protocols, field coordination, technician supervision and vascular plant identification for a rare plant monitoring program in northern Alberta.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Worked as a member of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institutes lab at the Royal Alberta Museum. Acted as an expert in Alberta's vascular plants, teaching plant identification and field sampling protocols and identifying pressed specimens in lab. As an assistant lab coordinator oversaw the processing of other field samples including soil, water and aquatic invertebrates by technicians. Performed quality control and assurance on data collected in the field. Additional tasks included some identification of lichens and preparation of invertebrate slide mounts.

Alberta, Canada

Performed vascular plant biodiversity surveys across Alberta including alpine, prairie and Boreal habitats. Physically demanding work in difficult environmental conditions and remote locations. Assisted with the processing of moss samples and the entry of field data. Taught plant identification and field sampling protocols to technicians and acted as an assistant field supervisor in final season.

Ubc Botanical Garden Horticulture Training Program, Landscape Horticulture

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Biology