Experience

University of Utah

• Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Conducting and analyzing Facebook and Twitter data pertaining to climate solution disinformation in order to find the following: 1. What types of climate disinformation are being propagated on social media? 2. What are the patterns of disinformation diffusion and evolution on social media? 3. What is the extent of the flagging protocols? 4. What solutions can be implemented in order to decrease climate solution disinformation on social media. Conducting and analyzing Facebook and Twitter data pertaining to climate solution disinformation in order to find the following: 1. What types of climate disinformation are being propagated on social media? 2. What are the patterns of disinformation diffusion and evolution on social media? 3. What is the extent of the flagging protocols? 4. What solutions can be implemented in order to decrease climate solution disinformation on social media.



National Park Service

• Page, Arizona, United States

• Archaeologist

  • May 2022 - Oct 2022

  -Monitoring cultural resources within the Glen Canyon National Recreation area -Assessing site conditions to understand visitation, grazing, and other natural impacts on archaeology sites. -Collaborating with the Bureau of Reclamation to study the impacts of the Colorado River on archaeology sites. -Preservation and stabilization of archaeology sites. -Monitoring cultural resources within the Glen Canyon National Recreation area -Assessing site conditions to understand visitation, grazing, and other natural impacts on archaeology sites. -Collaborating with the Bureau of Reclamation to study the impacts of the Colorado River on archaeology sites. -Preservation and stabilization of archaeology sites.



PaleoWest

• Intern

  • May 2021 - Jun 2022

  - Conducted survey to locate and identify archaeological sites within the Nine Mile Canyon region. - Recorded new archaeological sites and re-recorded previous sites. In compliance with best practices for the state’s documentation requirements. - Assisted in lithic assemblage analysis and collect spatial data for ArcGIS employees. - Independently worked on compiling data collected in the field into the archaeology site forms. - Conducted literature review to determine land usage and history, to determine the future integrity of the site. - Conducted site write-ups in order to determine whether a site is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Show less



Utah State University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

  - Developed a repatriation procedure to fulfill the USU Museum of Anthropology obligation to NAGPRA. - Worked with a team to identify human remains, associated burial goods within the museum’s collection, and the locations in which they were taken. In order to associate the artifacts with treaty tribal land.- Analyzed a legacy photo collection to determine the general localities where restoration and preservation work was done. - Conducted geospatial analysis using Google Earth, and ArcGIS to determine site locations. - Visited numerous sites in the Grand Gulch drainage in order to document archaeology sites and obtain GPS locations for three structures. Show less

• Undergraduate Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2022

  - Facilitates classroom discussions and co-teach. - Presented personal research regarding NAGPRA obligations and legacy collections. - Graded assignments and discussions. - Worked one and one with students in order to create personalized approaches for complex concepts covered in class.Assisted in the Following classes: World Archaeology, Archaeology In North America, World Archaeology, and Archaeology of Climate Change.



Natural History Museum of Utah

• Salt Lake City

• Intern

  • Jan 2018 - May 2018

  - Incorporated best-practice standards in restoring camera film from archaeology expeditions between 1920-1980s. - Created and sorted an organization system for all the camera film based on Smithsonian trinomial, site name, area code, and year. - Input all film collection information into an excel sheet in an effort to digitalize the photo collection for others to use. - Incorporated best-practice standards in restoring camera film from archaeology expeditions between 1920-1980s. - Created and sorted an organization system for all the camera film based on Smithsonian trinomial, site name, area code, and year. - Input all film collection information into an excel sheet in an effort to digitalize the photo collection for others to use.