City Research Scientist - Project Manager 2021 - present

New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation

• Oversee projects in the City’s environmental quality programs for hazardous materials, air quality, and noise.

• Write python scripts to digitize, analyze, and map environmental data. Build database of soil, groundwater, and soil vapor data. Conduct analyses to assess data quality and identify program-wide implications for environmental quality and public health

• Supervise environmental consultant’s installation of soil borings, soil vapor points, and groundwater samples for chemical analysis. Write, review, and edit work plans, laboratory analytical results, summary data tables, geologic maps and cross-sections, architectural plans, and technical reports.

• Provide regulatory oversight to projects to ensure conformation to applicable local, state, and federal environmental laws, rules, and regulations. Conduct meetings with property owners, environmental consultants, lawyers, and members of a project team.

• Review requests for proposals and participate in contract selections.

• Brief New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) on environmental data and remedial actions.

Geochemistry Laboratory Research Assistant: 2018 - 2021

Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (PRIME Lab)

• Conducted geochemical analyses on samples sent by clients.

• Measured concentrations of metals in geologic samples via ICP-OES. Prepared standards and quality assurance solutions. Developed laboratory methods for improved measurement of trace elements.

• Prepared laboratory solutions of acids, bases, and other chemicals. Performed cation/anion column chromatography, solvent extractions, vacuum filtration, and other chemical procedures.

• Prepared samples for rare isotope measurements via accelerator mass spectrometer.

• Crushed and pulverized rock samples using a jaw crusher, disk mill, and shatter box. Separated quartz from other minerals using chemical leaching, magnetic separation, froth floatation, and density separation.

• Analyzed and visualized data using python libraries including NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.

Geology & Geography Teaching Assistant: 2018 - 2021

Purdue University

• Taught laboratory sections for in-person geology courses and online geography courses.

• Lectured about weekly topics, facilitated laboratory exercises and exams, graded work, and resolved scheduling and course issues for students.

Geochemistry Laboratory Research Assistant: 2017

Wissahickon Charter School, Philadelphia PA

• Taught small breakout groups in math, reading, and writing.

• Assisted with classroom management and lesson preparation.

• Monitored recess.

• Wissahickon Charter is a tuition-free school “with curricular and cultural emphases on the environment, service learning, peace and conflict resolution, and family involvement.”

Laboratory Manager and Field Assistant: 2013 - 2016

Oberlin College Geomorphology Lab

• Managed laboratory schedules. Coordinated use of laboratory instrumentation. Received deliveries of liquid nitrogen and replenished dewars for Scanning Electron Microscope and Gamma Spectrometer.

• Trained laboratory members to conduct chemical procedures and to use instrumentation.

• Assisted in geologic field work. Collected soil and river sediment samples from catchments in Yunnan Provence, China and Ohio, USA. Sieved to a range of grain sizes. Managed field log, notes, and photos. Planned routes. Managed packaging, receiving, and processing of samples.

• Utilized gamma spectrometry (broad energy germanium detector) for measurement of activities of short-lived radionuclides in sediments, soils, rainwater, snow melt, river water, and geological leachates. Developed new laboratory methods yielding lower detection limits.

• Utilized X-ray Diffraction to identify clay mineralogy in sediment and soil samples. Collected and compared diffraction patterns for desiccated, heated, and glycolated powders.

• Utilized polarizing light microscopy (PLM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to identify mineralogy in sediment and soil samples. Cut, ground, and polished thin sections of rocks and sediment. Operated rock saws and polishing/grinding wheels.

Support Assistant for a College Student: 2016

Oberlin College

• Provided in-class and out-of-class support for a student in two geology classes.

• Assisted student with laboratory tasks, fieldwork, typing in word and excel, and acted as a facilitator for communication.

Introductory Geology Teaching Assistant: 2015

Oberlin College

• Assisted in the facilitation of laboratory activities, clarified concepts for students.