Experience

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programs Officer

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  The program manager manages programs in terms of overall vision and content. Bringing a scientific background to the planning of the SETAC North America meetings and workshops, this position involves managing the format, schedule, speakers, courses, session/abstracts…etc. The program manager is also the head office liaison to the program, science, education, and career committees, as well as interest and affinity groups. The program manager manages programs in terms of overall vision and content. Bringing a scientific background to the planning of the SETAC North America meetings and workshops, this position involves managing the format, schedule, speakers, courses, session/abstracts…etc. The program manager is also the head office liaison to the program, science, education, and career committees, as well as interest and affinity groups.



Bugsrock Consulting

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Environmental Consultant

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Environment, Conservation and Parks | Environnement, Protection de la nature et Parcs

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2021 - Mar 2022

  Human and ecological risk assessment, preparing summary documents of available human toxicity reference values, creation of a database of available background/ambient sediment concentrations in Ontario, section lead for the MECP anti-racism action plan

• • Jun 2002 - Mar 2022

  Acute and chronic sediment and aquatic toxicity assessments with H. azteca, C. dilutus, D. magna, L. variegatus, Hexagenia spp., rainbow trout and fathead minnows under ISO 17025 accreditation. Culturing of the above species as well as algae. Support Ontario’s whole effluent monitoring and compliance enforcement program. Conduct toxicity testing to support water and sediment guideline development. Project management, data reporting and maintenance of a strong quality system. Work on the development of new testing methods and to standardize and improve existing methods. Exposures and collection of samples for transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics analysis for several studies. Show less

• • Aug 2016 - Jul 2017

  Development of the historical Great Lakes Nearshore Benthic Invertebrate Community database in Microsoft Access culminating in this data being published on Ontario.ca (https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/benthic-invertebrate-community-great-lakes-nearshore-areas). Co-authored a publication in the assessment of changes in the macroinvertebrate community structure in Toronto's Humber Bay between 1990 and 2012 in response to the arrival of invasive Dreissenids and round gobies as well as changes in environmental policy and increased urbanization. Show less



EDI Environmental Dynamics Inc

• Canada
• Environmental Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technician

  • May 1997 - Oct 1998

  Worked as a forestry technician doing stream surveys in northern British Columbia. Worked as a forestry technician doing stream surveys in northern British Columbia.



University of Waterloo

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technician

  • May 1994 - Feb 1997

  Performed invertebrate identification for Dr. David Barton during my undergratuate degree. My undergraduate thesis looked at the relationship between mayfly gill size and the Hilsenhoff's biotic index and examined the behavioural response of two species of mayfly to low oxygen concentrations. Performed invertebrate identification for Dr. David Barton during my undergratuate degree. My undergraduate thesis looked at the relationship between mayfly gill size and the Hilsenhoff's biotic index and examined the behavioural response of two species of mayfly to low oxygen concentrations.