Experience

Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conservation Field Specialist

  • May 2021 - Present

  - Develop and implement work plans to support ecological restoration in and around Burlington's parks and community gardens, with strategies including guided forest succession, invasive species management, nature-based climate change adaptations, and permaculture - Lead outreach and service projects, managing dozens of volunteers from the community - Develop and implement work plans to support ecological restoration in and around Burlington's parks and community gardens, with strategies including guided forest succession, invasive species management, nature-based climate change adaptations, and permaculture - Lead outreach and service projects, managing dozens of volunteers from the community



National Park Service

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Guest Scientist (Paleontology)

  • Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Planned and executed a comprehensive survey of and management plan for the paleontological resources of Wupatki National Monument, a park with extensive Triassic outcrops that contain rare ichnofossils • Created a new database and SOPs for formally documenting, mapping, and photographing all paleontological resources, culminating in a final inventory report • Developed monitoring plans and recommendations for future management and protection of resources • Performed fieldwork in desert wilderness, often solo, walking over 10 miles/day with a heavy pack • Trained and educated volunteer field assistants in field paleontology and the natural history of Wupatki Show less



Field Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - Jun 2020

  • Analyzed sensitive meteorite samples with SEM/EDS imaging and Raman spectroscopy • Trained in practical lab techniques to mount and polish meteorite specimens • Worked on multiple projects concurrently in collaboration with Dr. Philipp Heck and graduate students, including finding presolar SiC grains in Murchison samples, mapping and analyzing pristine Aguas Zarcas samples, and classifying micrometeorite candidates • Analyzed sensitive meteorite samples with SEM/EDS imaging and Raman spectroscopy • Trained in practical lab techniques to mount and polish meteorite specimens • Worked on multiple projects concurrently in collaboration with Dr. Philipp Heck and graduate students, including finding presolar SiC grains in Murchison samples, mapping and analyzing pristine Aguas Zarcas samples, and classifying micrometeorite candidates



University of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mars Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

  • Worked independently to study young equatorial sedimentary rock deposits on Mars by collecting and analyzing data on crater abundance and erosion, with the aim to determine the stability of water ice at these deposits as well as to understand their origin• Assisted with a variety of research projects concerning the history of Mars’ surface, especially in regards to tracing evidence and impacts of past liquid water

• Paleontology Research Assisstant

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  • Digitally reconstructed the skeleton of a newly discovered species of cistecephalid dicynodont, an extinct precursor to mammals, by digitally isolating a CT scan of a uniquely complete fossil specimen and creating 3D surface models for subsequent 3D-printing, skeletal articulation, and morphological analysis• Collaborated with a Field Museum curator and the Luo Lab to secure a $1000 Summer Research Grant from the University of Chicago Metcalf program to support the project