Experience

Scholarships & Accolades

Awarded Senior Alumni Non-traditional Scholarship 2019
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society
U.S. Navy Veteran
Volunteered over 3,000 hours to the National Park Service
published in the 2019 UMO literary magazine, The Open Field
Asked by the UMO Art Department to conduct a lecture as a visiting artist for digital photography, fall semester 2017.

Life Experience

Currently teach adult education (photography) in Skowhegan, Thorndike, Fairfield and Pittsfield.
Published photographer and performing musician
Worked as an Alternative Spring Break Coordinator, leading close to 1000 students on excursions to recondition sea turtle beaches.
Wrote and conducted visitor interpretation programs with the National Park Service. Guided visitors on interpretive wilderness excursions.
State of Maine Registered Master Guide

Please enjoy these pictures of my time with the National Park Service.

We can all give back to the environment and care for our planet through volunteerism.

Alternative Break Clean-up

Each week students from different universities would join my partner and I to travel to remote sea turtle beaches to recondition them.

Alternative Break Clean-up

Each day we would average between 350 - 800 lbs of debris brought in on ocean currents.

Alternative Break Clean-up

Once the debris was collected, it was then bagged and floated out to the waiting boats. Boats needed to be anchored offshore due to the shallow structure of the water surrounding the Florida Keys.

Alternative Break Clean-up

Students from Vanderbilt University assist me in retrieving a ball of rogue trap line. Undoubtedly lost overboard by a large commercial fishing vessel. This single ball of rope weighed close to 1,000 lbs and was hyper compressed due to the extreme depths it had been subjected to.

Alternative Break Clean-up

Balloons Suck! That is all I have to say.

Alternative Break Clean-up

North Carolina students pose with myself, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.

Maintenance Diving

Being OSHA certified as a maintenance diver, I had opportunities to do various projects at depth in the ocean.

Scientific Diving

I am extracting a sample of critically endangered pillar coral to be taken back to the lab at the University of Florida in hopes of artificially propagating the species. I am especially proud to think I may have played a hand in saving this species from extinction.

Trash Day

Standing on top of a 15 yard dumpster filled to the brim with plastic from sea turtle beaches.

Burmese Python

The first documented python in Biscayne National Park, 2016. It was a female, 6'6" long.

Please note: crocs are not recommended footwear for invasive species management.

Kemps Ridley Rescue

I was always happy to assist in wildlife rescues, and as one of the parks first responders, I saw my fair share. In this photo I am rescuing a juvenile Kemps Ridley sea turtle that had tangled itself up in a fishing float. It was past exhaustion, and close to death when we retrieved it; its flipper nearly severed from the entanglement.

Kemps Ridley

The first documented Kemps Ridley in Biscayne National Park since 1986 was this 2017 rescue. It is unlikely the turtle will be returned to the wild. Please note, handling and transporting sea turtles is against federal law. While at the park, I was working under federal permit as a wildlife responder.

Pelican Rescue

I am standing on top of a boat in the mangrove canopy after retrieving a pelican that had been close to death from strangulation caused by fishing line hanging in a tree.

Pelican Rescue

Me and my newfound friend on our way to rehab.

Pelican Rescue 2

We had to go for a swim to get this pelican. In this photo we are rushing him to the vet for x-rays due to suspected hook ingestion.

Field Operations

In this photo we are trying to secure a great blue heron who is in peril and in need of rescue. I am holding a net gun as we try to approach by boat.

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