Experience

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  New york aquarium

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2011

  Volunteer
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  Akrf, inc.

  Jun 2012 - Sept 2012

  Intern

  Environmental, planning, and engineering consulting firm. Held a paid internship position that involved both office work and fieldwork across the city, including: reading Environmental Impact Assessments, visiting construction sites, and surveying sidewalks and parks.

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  Shoals marine laboratory, cornell university

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

  Intertidal ecology intern

  Paid internship to perform transect studies in the intertidal zone. Diversity studies and identification of all represented taxa to genus/species level contributed to an ongoing 25-year dataset that provides valuable information for numerous ecological studies.

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  Suffolk county parks department

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Shorebird steward

  Monitored and exclosed nesting sites of terns and endangered piping plovers.

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  The nature conservancy

  Apr 2014 - May 2014

  Intern

  Three-week internship following Cornell Earth and Environmental Systems Field Semester in Hawaii. Areas of work included: studying coral reef health and water quality; studying and maintaining the restored traditional Hawaiian fishpond at Kiholo.

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  Suffolk county parks department

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Shorebird conservation crew leader

  Monitored and exclosed nesting sites of terns and endangered piping plovers.Lead a crew of seven shorebird stewards. Planned daily site visits, organized data, and informed the public about conservation.

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  Mccormick taylor, inc.

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

  Temporary archaeologist/monitor

  Phase I cultural archaeology for the engineering, environmental, and planning firm McCormick Taylor; digging shovel test pits and screening for historic and prehistoric artifacts.

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  U.s. fish and wildlife service (usfws)

  Apr 2015 - Dec 2015

  Crazy ant strike team x crew member

  One of a crew of five sent to Johnston Atoll (an uninhabited 1 sq mi former military base) as the tenth six-month deployment of the Crazy Ant Strike Team (CAST) project, a USFWS effort to eradicate the yellow crazy ant (YCA), Anoplolepis gracilipes. YCA are a threat to the nesting seabirds on Johnston, in particular red-tailed tropicbirds, Phaeton rubricauda, of which Johnston hosts the world's largest breeding colony. YCA control methods tested in previous deployments, especially the application of hydrogel crystals soaked with sugar water and a concentration of insecticide (Dinotefuran), were implemented on a large scale. CAST X achieved a great reduction of the area in which YCA were dominant, allowing CAST XI to focus on targeted areas. In addition to YCA control, responsibilities included seabird nest monitoring, identification of ant species collected across the island, and weekly reef fish surveys. Show less

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  New jersey audubon

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2016

  Marine invertebrate technician

  Collected core samples of sand from the intertidal zone at Stone Harbor Point, processed and identified invertebrates; part of a three year study of invertebrate recolonization in areas of the beach where sand was moved for restoration of shorebird nesting habitat.

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  Cornell oysters of hog neck

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2018

  Oyster farmer

  Family-operated commercial oyster farm located in Hog Neck Bay, Long Island. Responsibilities include: small boat operation, basic boat and machinery maintenance, oyster sorting and processing, oyster cage construction and repair, planning.

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  University of hawai‘i system

  Jul 2018 - now

  Research assistant, hawai'i ant lab

  Hawai'i Ant Lab conducts research on the biology and control of invasive ants, advises the public on effective treatment of little fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata), and works to prevent the further spread of invasive ants across the State of Hawai'i and beyond. Based in Hilo, it is a project of the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, a research division of the University of Hawai'i.