Experience

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  SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY, INC.

  • Bocas del Toro, Panama

  • Research Assistant

    • Apr 2024 - May 2024
    • Bocas del Toro, Panama

    Working to conserve leatherback and hawksbill turtles in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. In this role I perform nightly patrols to record turtle numbers as well as data collection, tagging, and egg relocation to prevent poaching.

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  Postage Stamp Wines

  • Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Cellar Door

    • Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
    • Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand

    Great time working for a vineyard over the summer after graduation. In my role I worked hospitality serving customers wine, preparing food, stocking, and managing deliveries. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn something new, and expanded my wine knowledge enormously.

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  University of Canterbury

  • New Zealand
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Laboratory Technician - Entomology

    • Jul 2023 - Nov 2023

    Identifying a collection of insects collected from the Mambilla Plateau in north-eastern Nigeria. This is in aid to a PhD student at the university.

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    • Feb 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Field and Workshop Technician

    • Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

    Working with the School of Forestry to collect, identify and preserve insect specimens for university collections. These collections will be used as teaching aids and for research purposes. Additionally helping a PhD student with bettle egg monitoring. A good combination of field and lab work.

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    • Aug 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Laboratory Assistant - Entomology

    • Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

    Working to help a Master's student with insect identification for inclusion to their thesis.My role is to take collected insect specimens and identify them, this includes a wide variety of urban garden insects.

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    • Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Ecology Field Assistant

    • Nov 2021 - Dec 2021

    A summer scholarship, I worked assisting in fieldwork to collect data for a Ph.D. thesis. I performed insect visitation observations, invasive plant removal, and, native plant monitoring. Additionally, I collected, pinned, and identified insects for a comprehensive collection of insects from the field site.

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  Canterbury Museum

  • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Entomology and Curatorial Intern

    • Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
    • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

    Photographing holotype insect specimens to ensure the validity of taxa in the event of damage or loss.Identifying and curating unidentified insect specimens within the museum's collection.