Experience

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Ph.D. Student

  • May 2019 - Present

  Coral-microbe interactions using molecular techniques paired with traditional culturing to identify coral disease pathogens. Coral-microbe interactions using molecular techniques paired with traditional culturing to identify coral disease pathogens.



Cape Eleuthera Institute

• Bahamas
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Technician

  • Aug 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Coral spawning monitoring, observing and recording Acropora species and other broadcast corals. • Reef surveying in conjunction with Atlantic Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) for a long-term coral reef monitoring program (first in Eleuthera). • Co-instructor for a research class on green sea turtle and seagrass ecosystems. • Outreach and educational program leader for marine ecology. • Independent research on coral disease profiling and disease monitoring throughout southern Eleuthera. • Coral and coral larvae husbandry in aquatics facilities with subsequent out-planting of corals. • Co-managing a team of interns through daily work responsibilities and research.



University of Ottawa

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Field technician in terms of collecting hundreds of amphibians, animal care/ husbandry, experimental mesocosm maintenance, specimen injection, post-injection monitoring. • Lab technician assisting with a chronic exposure experiment at varying concentrations of naphthenic acids (NAs), sampling using microscopic imagery, post-experiment dissections. • Experimental co-lead for an amphibian metamorphic climax study through exposure to varying concentrations of NAs, including specimen dissections (for qPCR) for post-experiment analysis.