Experience

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  Green Chimneys

  • Brewster, New York, United States

  • Farmworker (animal caretaking)

    • Oct 2023 - Present
    • Brewster, New York, United States

    ● Responsible for assisting with the care, feedings, watering, enrichment, medication, and enclosure maintenance for exotic and domestic animals, including: Virginia opossum, North American porcupine, Dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, chinchillas, guinea pigs, goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, ponies, llamas, alpacas, emus, great blue heron, Demoiselle cranes, ring billed gulls, bald eagle, turkey vulture, Andean condor, red tailed hawks, red shouldered hawks, ferruginous hawk, Harris’ hawks, broad winged hawks, gyrfalcons, peregrine falcons, prairie falcon, kestrel, merlin, eastern screech owls, Eurasian eagle owls, great horned owls, barred owls, barn owl, American crows, common ravens, Reeve’s pheasant, golden pheasant, Indian peafowl, ring necked dove, starlings, wild turkeys, mallard ducks, scaup ducks, falcated ducks, wood ducks, mandarin ducks, pintail ducks, smew ducks, peking duck, Cayuga duck, Muscovy duck, baikal teals, Brazilian teals, ringed teals, Canadian geese, red breasted geese, snow geese, emperor geese, Chinese geese, parakeets, chickens, Russian tortoises, Greek tortoises, bearded dragon, leopard geckos, savannah monitor, red-tailed boa, ball python, corn snakes, axolotl, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and rose hair tarantula.

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  University of Calgary

  • Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • MSc Collections Manager

    • Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
    • Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Identified and cataloged newly collected fossil specimens from the Swift Current Creek fossil locality for the Royal Saskatchewan Museum as a graduate researcher, and updated their specimen catalogue accordingly.

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  Lincoln Elementary School

  • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

  • Guest Speaker

    • May 2021 - May 2021
    • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

    Educated children with disabilities about dinosaurs and prehistoric species, habitats, ecosystems, and more using Powerpoint and Keynote software

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  University of Calgary

  • Canada
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Sep 2018 - Dec 2020

    Oversaw student coursework in Introduction to Vertebrate Zoology courses during the Fall 2018 and 2020 semesters (e.g. correcting sketches, identifying taxa, key structures)Monitored and supervised student laboratory course work while answering their questions during the courses, during regular office hours, and by emailGraded and reviewed student assignments and exams during both courses to improve learning outcomes

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

    Graded and reviewed student assignments to improve learning outcomes for the DNA, Inheritance and Evolution course

  • Lab Supervisor

    • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

    Trained and supervised volunteers in separating fossils from surrounding rock, mineral, and matrix while properly disposing of remaining sedimentary debrisTaught interns how to safely handle, store, and label fossils specimens

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  Lincoln Elementary School

  • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

  • Guest Speaker

    • Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
    • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

    Educated children with disabilities about dinosaurs and prehistoric species, habitats, ecosystems, and more using Powerpoint and Keynote software

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  Rye Nature Center

  • Rye, New York, United States

  • Volunteer

    • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
    • Rye, New York, United States

    Measured width, height, and (plastorum) length of Eastern Box Turtles shellsDetermined turtle sex and pregnancy while identifying captured individuals as either new or previously documentedUpdated an active record of vegetation in their surroundings

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  Friends of Crawford Park

  • Rye Brook, New York, United States

  • Volunteer Planter

    • Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
    • Rye Brook, New York, United States

    Planted orchids, irises, and blueberry bushes in Crawford Park, Rye Brook, NY Pruned young plants, and uprooted small deceased trees

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  Lincoln Elementary School

  • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

  • Guest Speaker

    • Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
    • Mount Vernon, New York, United States

    Educated children with disabilities about dinosaurs and prehistoric species, habitats ecosystems, and more using Powerpoint and Keynote software

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  Two Medicine Dinosaur Institute

  • Bynum and Malta, Montana, USA

  • 10-day Paleontology Course

    • Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
    • Bynum and Malta, Montana, USA

    Enrolled in a extracurricular 10-day paleontology course which covered topics ranging from biology, geology, and ecology to taphonomy, and stratigraphy, and cladistics. Equal attention was paid to the scientific and legal process involved in paleontological work. This included: the use of consolidants, adhesives, and plaster jackets in fossil preservation,the relationship a paleontologist has with a dig site's landowner as well as the fossils' end user. Separate attention was paid to proper methods of recording field notes in great detail while project coursework included excavation of both a dinosaur egg site from the Two Medicine Formation exposed in near Bynum, and fossilized vertebrae of a duck-billed dinosaur (Edmontosaurus) from the Hell Creek Formation exposed near Malta.

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  SUNY PURCHASE

  • Purchase, New York

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    • Jan 2017 - May 2017
    • Purchase, New York

    Facilitated introductory lecture for an advanced undergraduate evolution course to guide student learning outcomes while grading assignmentsPrepared class materials while taking attendance and organizing class meetings

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  SUNY PURCHASE

  • Edith Read Sanctuary, Rye Beach

  • Undergraduate Environmental Sciences Intern

    • May 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Edith Read Sanctuary, Rye Beach

    Captured invasive Hemigrapsus sanguineus specimens from Rye Beach at Edith Read Sanctuary while transporting them to an academic laboratory for analysis Coordinated identification of specimens’ sex and gravid (pregnant) status of female specimens as well as the measurement of carapace dimensions Supervised fellow undergraduate interns in collecting crab specimens while recording gathered site and specimen data for further research

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  Bruno M. Ponterio Ridge Street Elementary School

  • Rye Brook, New York, United States

  • Guest Lecturer

    • Apr 2007 - Apr 2009
    • Rye Brook, New York, United States

    Lectured younger students about dinosaurs using media and specimen modelsOrganized recurring, annual lessons for each April with classroom teachers