Experience

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  Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

  • Claremont, CA

  • Student Research Internship (SRI)

    • Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
    • Claremont, CA

    + Collecting and mounting plant specimen+ DNA extraction+ PCR amplification+ DNA sequencing+ Dehydration methods+ Microtome+ Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)Learned how to collect a plant specimen, press it, and mount it to create a herbarium specimen. Learned DNA extraction and PCR amplification methods. Sequenced DNA using the Sanger sequencing method and Geneious. Also used dehydration series to process specimen for microtome use and microscope slide creation. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was also used to look at specimen.

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  NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN

  • Kaua'i, Hawai'i

  • Limahuli Garden and Preserve Summer Intern

    • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
    • Kaua'i, Hawai'i

    Please check out the blog below!+ Biocultural Conservation and Conservational Biology+ Management of Traditional Hawaiian Ahupua'a System+ Plant identification and botany+ Ethnobotany and traditional medicine+ Land surveying+ Stream management and surveying+ Invasive species removal and native species implementation+ Plant identification+ Dichotomous key+ Children's educationCultivated a strong connection with the people and land through Nā Kilo ‘Āina, working with local families and kids to learn biological, cultural, and social relationship to island landscape through the integration of multiple knowledge systems.