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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

New York City Audubon, New York, NY
NOAA Coordinator with Citizen Scientest Program, March 2010 – ongoing

  • Ensure proper data gathering protocol for Community Waterbird Monitoring Project
  • Work with Citizen Scientist Manager and partner organization, Rocking the Boat, to train high school-aged students on bird identification and scientific data collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Team Member Ecologist/Artist, November 2009-January 2010

  • Research and proposed ecologically sound design strategies for dealing with sea level rise in the Upper New York Harbor, ‘Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront’ exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (March-October 2010)
  • Collaborated with architects, landscape architects, artists, environmental engineers, energy experts, restoration ecologists, and museum representatives
  • Lead writer for Team 2 blog

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Brooklyn, NY
Curriculum Developer/ Educator Fall 2009 – ongoing

  • Developed science education curriculum based on the Park’s intertidal zone
  • Led site-specific, hands-on, and inquiry based classes

Freelance Artist, New York City
Artist, Builder, Exhibit Developer, 5/98-ongoing

  • Researched, designed and fabricated educational sculptures and environments
  • Painted sets for video, television, and theater
  • Clients included: Moey Inc. (Science Museum of Western Virginia), Children’s Museum of Manhattan (Body Odyssey), Bronx Zoo (Congo Gorilla Forest), others

Leap (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program) New York, NY
Teaching Artist and Scientist, Spring 2009

  • Developed and implemented artists residencies using differentiated learning techniques for elementary students
  • Developed and implemented teacher workshops for high school teachers
  • Consulted high school science teachers on developing interactive lesson plans

New York Sea Grant/ Cornell University, Long Island City, NY
Recreational Fisheries Specialist, 9/05- 9/08
Ran urban fishing education and conservation program, I FISH NY, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC).

Curriculum Development & Communication

  • Designed inquiry-based and hands-on original lesson plans for ages 8 and up that met New York State and New York City Learning Standards
  • Produced teaching tools including Go Fish! card game and Invasive Investigators board game
  • Led teacher training workshops through the New York City Department of Education and the Student Conservation Association
  • Created content for website visited 37,000 times in first 2 years
  • Created displays for outreach events: posters, portable dioramas, interactives
  • Designed I FISH NY newsletter, produced triennially. Served as illustrator, graphic designer, regular contributor, and chief copy editor
  • Illustrated fish for NYS DEC literature, I FISH NY learning aids, and public signage: Go Fish! cards,Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish of New York brochure, Oyster Bay Pier

Classrooms and Clinics

  • Taught fish biology, fish biodiversity, marine and freshwater ecology, aquatic conservation, and fishing techniques to over 1500 NYC school children annually through classroom visits and fishing trips
  • Designed and ran fishing clinics reaching 300 to 400 people annually
  • Partnered with local environmental organizations: Metropolitan Water Alliance, New York Restoration Project, Rocking the Boat, Partnership for Parks (Queens chapter)

Fieldwork and Research

  • Designed, implemented, and analyzed evaluations given to in-school and clinic participants
  • Co-authored poster used in American Fisheries Society Symposium 2007
  • Co-authored manuscript for American Fisheries Society Urban Fishing Symposium 2007
  • Performed fisheries fieldwork: electrofishing, seine netting, and fish data collecting
  • Collected samples for invasive species management project

Program Management

  • Prepared data and reports to maintain federal funding and monitor program success
  • Annually reviewed grand proposals for funding other NY Sea Grant projects
  • Managed volunteers and volunteer organizations for implementing public programs
  • Served on search committees for new staff
  • Developed and analyzed first comprehensive assessment of school an publis programs
  • Monitored budget for program development

American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Senior Exhibition Preparator, 3/97-8/03

  • Collaborated with museum curators, researched plant and animal morphology, and corresponded with other research institutions to create scientifically accurate models
  • Managed outside production teams as scientific advisor
  • Created and taught curriculum for outreach programs
  • Exhibits included: Hall of Ocean Life, Discovery Room, Hall of Biodiversity, Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease

United States National Arboretum, Washington D.C.
Agricultural Research Science Technician, 5/96-10/96

  • Enhanced and maintained high-visibility Crabapple and Viburnum collections
  • Assisted other collections including National Herb Garden and Fern Valley Native Plant Collection

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA
Horticulture Intern, 4/95-12/95

  • Maintained living collections
  • Prepared herbairum samples

EDUCATION

Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, 8/03-6/05
Masters of Environmental Management: Coastal Environmental Management

  • Coursework included marine invertebrate zoology, marine ecology, oceanography, physiology, and documentary studies
  • Thesis research at Scripps Institute of Oceanography: researched and produced personal climate change information card
  • Outreach project: worked with Shifting Baselines to produce a regional TV public service announcement for marine protected areas
  • Research Assistantship: analyzed the migration patterns and life cycle of blue crabs in coastal North Carolina
  • Produced documentary about North Carolinian farmers
  • Produced promotional documentary for Key West Botanical Gardens
  • Distinctions: National Science Foundation K-12 Teaching Fellowship, Nicholas School Merit Scholarship and Environment Assistantship, Audrey Chase Memorial Scholarship for Climate Change

Columbia University, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, 8/02-5/03
Research and Conservation Program for Certificate in Conservation Biology Coursework included tropical plant systematics, botanical field studies in the Dominican Republic, captive breeding and reserves, animal behavior

Harvard University, 92-95
Bachelors of Liberal Arts, Concentration Natural Sciences

  • Coursework included tropical ecology, botany, oceanography, environmental management, demography
  • Projects: Analyzed species diversity in intertidal zone, identified zooplankton, analyzed ocean floor sediment core
  • Distinctions: Graduated cum laude, summer scholarship recipient

Korea University, Seoul (summer 92)
Summer Coursework
Courses included: anthropology, language

University of Delaware, Newark, DE (7/88-5/91)
Studio Art
Courses included: illustration, printmaking, photography, painting, and sculpture

Publications

Coastlines, Fisheries, Empire State magazine: Featured my work at I FISH NY
Liberty Science Center, Our Hudson Home exhibition: I was featured in a video for this permanent exhibit, speaking about fishing around New York City

COMPUTER SKILLS

Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut Pro 4.0, iMovie, ESRI, SAS

CERTIFICATIONS

PADI, ADH CPR

VOLUNTEER

NYC Audubon, Transportation Alternatives

OTHER INTERESTS

Surfing, swimming, yoga, bicycling