Experience

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  Sonoma Technology, Inc.

  • Petaluma, CA

  • Atmospheric Scientist; Kids Making Sense Program Manager & Lead Scientist

    • Feb 2019 - Present
    • Petaluma, CA

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  U.S. Department of State

  • Department of State Air Quality Fellow

    • May 2020 - Present

    I am a volunteer fellow working with the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo to help with matters related to air quality.

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  Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment

  • Staff Scientist

    • Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Education, Outreach and Diversity Coordinator

    • Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

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  Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment at UC San Diego

  • Univeristy of California, San Diego

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    • Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
    • Univeristy of California, San Diego

    Select Projects:--The Role of Marine-Generated Biological Macromolecules on Aerosol Climate Properties Responsible for experimental design and generation of sea spray aerosol followed by analysis via Atomic Force Microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy.--Bacterial Culture VOC SamplingMeasurement of gas phase volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced from bacterial cultures during communication using a novel sampling cell to house cultures while allowing for solid phase micro-extraction sampling and analysis by GC/MS triple quadrupole.

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  University of California, San Diego

  • University of California, San Diego

  • Ph.D., Analytical/ Atmospheric Chemistry

    • Aug 2009 - May 2015
    • University of California, San Diego

    Bertram Research Group--National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Recipient--Researched as Center for Impact of Aerosols on Climate and the Environment (CAICE)My graduate student career involved designing and performing experiments to measure the heterogeneous reaction kinetics of N2O5 on both ambient/field and laboratory-generated aerosol particles. For this work, I utilized a chemical ionization mass spectrometry coupled to custom designed flow reactors, and compared the results with box model outputs and co-located measurements to further understand the findings. Additionally I acquired skills in oxidation chemistry, LabVIEW, Matlab programming, and Igor. I frequently used aerosol sizing instruments (scanning particle mobility sizer, aerodynamic particle sizer, Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer), and gas phase monitoring instruments to measure ambient levels of ozone and nitrogen oxides. I was responsible for the critical analysis of my data and presenting the data to the scientific community at numerous conferences, to the public at outreach events and to government agencies. Further, I was responsible for planning, executing, and managing numerous research projects involving groups of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, ensuring that as a team we met the project objectives by the established deadline.

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  Calscience Environmental Laboratories, Inc.

  • Chemist/Lab Technician

    • Oct 2008 - Apr 2009

    --Overview:Responsible for analyzing water, soil, and air samples via GC/MS to determine compliance with EPA standard regulations by assigned deadlines.To maintain the GC/MS I performed daily instrumental calibrations and frequent sample dilutions to ensure analyte intensities remained below the saturation limit of the GC/MS detector.-- Skills: GC/MS, LIMS databank system

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  UC Irvine

  • Irvine

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

    • Jun 2006 - Jun 2008
    • Irvine

    Finlayson-Pitts Research Group--Investigated the interfacial reactions that take place between ozone and alkene self-assembled monolayers on silica substrates to serve as a proxy for processes taking place at interfaces in the atmosphere.--Presented research to the community and State delegates at the AIRUCI community day. Created and presented an award winning poster concerning recent research at the ACS National Meeting in April 2008.--Skills:Attenuated Total Reflectance FT-IR, UV-Vis Spectrometry, OMNIC software, Sigma Plot