Ronald Young
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Credentials
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CPR/AED - American Red Cross
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Experience
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Verily
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Associate
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Mar 2019 - Present
• Mass rearing of mosquitos for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) field trials. Optimizing mosquito production and operations strategies. • Mass rearing of mosquitos for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) field trials. Optimizing mosquito production and operations strategies.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Biological Research Intern
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Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
• Collaborated with The Nature Conservancy and Verily Life Sciences on Debug Project. Carried out atoll-wide mosquito population assessment. • Collaborated with The Nature Conservancy and Verily Life Sciences on Debug Project. Carried out atoll-wide mosquito population assessment.
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UC Santa Barbara
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant - Hillary Young Laboratory
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2016 - 2018
• Collaborated on NSF funded project to describe the food web for tropical forests • Described the secondary extinction of Aedes albopictus at Palmyra Atoll, following rat eradication • Performed statistical analysis of comparing diversity of various arthropod groups across gradients of ecosystem size and productivity • Developed expertise in the identification of all orders of tropical arthropods • Created identification guides for several orders of arthropods, including agricultural pests like scale
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Monteverde Institute
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Education Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
• Led a research project examining infection dynamics and physiological impacts of a parasitic isopod on a commercially important fish Pacific Red Snapper in Costa Rica • Led a research project examining infection dynamics and physiological impacts of a parasitic isopod on a commercially important fish Pacific Red Snapper in Costa Rica
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Education
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University of California, Santa Barbara