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Come listen to professionals below discuss how to tailor your resume to specific wildlife sectors! We will be discussing resumes for undergraduate labs, graduate school, CDFW applications, and approved biologist status for the state and federal government.
This virtual workshop will be happening via Zoom on Thursday, April 24th from 5:30-7pm PDT.
Don't forget to register! While this workshop is geared towards students and early career professionals, anyone is welcome to attend. Questions? Email students@tws-west.org
Ange is a Senior Environmental Scientist at California Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also currently teaches part time at CSU, Sacramento. Prior to working for CDFW, Ange was a full-time faculty member of the Wildlife Department at Humboldt State University (HSU). Her PhD is from the University of Louisiana and focused on the impacts of human recreation in national parks on the carnivore community in southern Arizona. For her master’s, from HSU, she studied how the space use of African wild dogs was impacted by lions and hyenas.
David and his wife run a small consulting firm in Central California specializing in ecological restoration. He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and has been working as an ecologist on biological assessment, habitat restoration, environmental compliance monitoring, and conservation projects within central and southern California since 1993. His areas of expertise include evaluating impacts to special status species and habitats, developing mitigation and monitoring plans, and acquiring project approvals from state and federal resource agencies. He has over 25 years of experience identifying birds by sight, song, and call. He has worked with numerous listed bird species including least Bell’s vireo, southwestern willow flycatcher, snowy plover, least tern, Belding’s savannah sparrow, Swainson’s hawk, California gnatcatcher, and yellow billed cuckoo. He has spent untold hours conducting species specific surveys and general nest searches and monitoring. He is a level 2 blunt-nosed leopard lizard surveyor, and experienced desert tortoise and red-legged frog biologist. He is also a well-rounded botanist having conducted surveys for listed and rare plant species, general habitat assessments, and vegetation sampling for habitat restoration projects. David completed his Master’s in Ecology examining the impacts of the non-native Giant Reed (Arundo donax) on the riparian bird community.