Position Summary: Led the Sonoran Desert Network's Frog, Toad, and Aquatic Snake Monitoring Protocol (Anura Project), helping develop and implement a multi-park amphibian monitoring program across eight National Park Service units in Arizona and New Mexico. Authored standard operating procedures, coordinated field operations, supervised field crews, and collaborated with park biologists, agency partners, and conservation organizations to support long-term amphibian monitoring and citizen science efforts.

Skills Developed: Developed expertise in protocol development, amphibian survey techniques, acoustic monitoring, and ecological data quality assurance/quality control. Strengthened skills in project coordination, crew leadership, interagency collaboration, and data analysis using Kaleidoscope and R. 

Position Summary: Worked directly with the Bureau of Land Management in order to organize collection of terrestrial AIM data across the state of Nevada. Managed three collection teams, performs quality control and quality assurance measures on all data. Often worked through crew issues, and managed data collection to insure it was completed on time.

Skills Developed: Expanded knowledge in botanical ecology and identification techniques in the state of Nevada. Experience in leading multiple crews, as well as handing in field issues, and maintaining risk management. Maintained GIS skillset and data management and control techniques. 

Position Summary: Worked directly with the Bureau of Land Management in order to organize collection of terrestrial AIM data across the state of Arizona. Managed three collection teams, plans hitches for data collection, and performs quality control and quality assurance measures on all data. Works as the botanist for all three crews, identifying and maintaining over 200 unknown plants using BLM protocols.

Skills Developed: Expanded knowledge in southwestern botanical ecology and identification techniques. Experience in leading multiple crews, as well as handing in field issues, and maintaining risk management. Maintained GIS skillset and data management and control techniques.

Position Summary: Worked as an educator for schools and school programs at the Reid Park Zoo. Taught children about animals around the world, their special adaptations that are unique to their habitat. Aimed to help others understand the importance of sustaining habitats and supporting environmental movements. 

Skills Developed: Learned to teach in sometimes hectic classrooms while also maintaining the safety of ambassador animals. Understand how to communicate complex and occasionally controversial topics to diverse groups. Maintained confidence when handling various mammals, reptiles, and insects.

Position Summary: Helped lead one of the herpetology projects for the University of Arizona. Used capture-release methods to obtain a population study on Gila monsters and snakes in the Oro Valley area. Directly managed the crew, made schedules, and trained new field crew members.

Skills Developed: Successfully used proper handling techniques with dangerous animals. Learned proper lab techniques for pit tag placement and measurements for reptiles. Improved management techniques and learned how to effectively teach new employees technical skills. Improved data collection skills. 

Position Summary: Worked on a variety of herpetology projects for Pima County. Used capture-release methods to determine how lizards in the Rillito wash are effected by relocation for debris removal. Sampled man made toad ponds in the Pima County area for population surveys on amphibians in late monsoon.

Skills Developed: Successfully used proper handling techniques with small and fragile animals. Learned proper lab techniques for pit tag placement and measurements for reptiles. Used navigation skills and data collection effectively and precisely. 

Position Summary: Worked in extremely difficult terrain in order to identify vegetation, trap pollinators, and sample woody debris in early seral field sites. Sites consisted of clear cuts and previous burns.

Skills Developed: Learned how to effectively hike through very rough terrain and safely navigate through recent burn areas. Built skills for working in hot and smoky conditions. Identification of vegetation was practiced and improved. Proper safety precautions for COVID-19 were established.

Position Summary: Worked with a graduate student at Oregon State University to measure the effects of logging on the Clark's mariposa lily in eastern Oregon. 

Skills Developed: Improved my skills in forest density readings, vegetation monitoring, and plant identification.  Gained additional experience in working in outdoor settings. Learned off-road driving techniques and skills. 

Position Summary: Assist in the education program where I teach community members about native flora and fauna. Participate in animal husbandry for venomous and non venomous reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. Established an online presence for community outreach and fundraising. 

Skills Developed: Confidence in communicating with large crowds of people, effective communication, increased educational skills, outreach and social platform building, animal husbandry.

Position Summary: Helps with frog surveys across the state of Arizona. Identifies frogs and helps fill out data for counts and population assurance.

Skills Developed: Improved skills in diurnal anuran surveys, as well as data management. 

Position Summary: Involved in bird counts held by the Siskiyou Audubon Society in Ashland, OR. Identified birds in a section of the city for Audubon records and other conservation programs.

Skills Developed: Improved skills in using both song and visual identification, increased experience in working in difficult weather.

Position Summary: Involved in the Biology Club for over three years. Worked as the Outreach Coordinator for two years before moving into the position of Vice President. During this time period I was involved in multiple herpetology, botany, and ornithology field trips and serviced the club as a guide. I was responsible for community outreach and fundraising.

Skills Developed: Identification skills of flora and fauna including using calls and songs to identify birds. Increased skills in herpetological identification. Developed outreach coordination and educational skills. 

Position Summary: Helped collect footprint and fur samples from fisher traps. Used non-contamination techniques during collection. 

Skills Developed: Contamination prevention when collecting scientific samples, increased skills with using GPS systems to find exact coordinates, increased experience with working in rough terrain. 

Position Summary: Invertebrates were captured using nets and counted and sorted to be shipped to labs for ID.

Skills Developed: Stream walking, net trapping, pebble counting, and taking weather data in aquatic ecosystems. Ability to work in wet and rocky terrain.

Position Summary: Attended multiple educational trainings, mentored young women during the event, responsible for helping students get to activities safely and efficiently while following a preplanned schedule. 

Skills Developed: Communication and education techniques for young adults. Gained experience with leading large groups and following scheduling. Increased ability to come up with solutions to new problems quickly and effectively. 

Position Summary: Provided assistance in leading outdoor adventure trips. Taught skills needed for climbing, whitewater rafting, hiking, and camping. Attended multiple trainings and meetings on outdoor safety protocols.

Skills Developed: Outdoor safety protocols, increased experience with working in outdoor environments. 

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Currently I am working with American Conservation Experience to lead three crews working on assessment, inventory, and monitoring (AIM) for the Bureau of Land Management. This position requires me to work with BLM offices across the state of Arizona to organize and plan upcoming field monitoring. I am also responsible for maintaining great working relationships with BLM project leads and botanists. In my previous role at the University of Arizona, I also took part in project management by creating crew schedules and insuring the project ran smoothly. 

Led field trips based on scientific learning, and introductions to scientific surveys with the Biology Club at SOU for 3 years while pursuing my degree. Post college, I excelled in the role of Crew Lead with the University of Arizona, where I managed a crew participating in rattlesnake and Gila monster research in Northern Tucson. Currently I manage three AIM field crews the BLM throughout the state of Arizona. 

Utilized my educational background in GIS and data management to complete an undergraduate thesis focused on my research with the National Park Service. I currently use GIS systems such as Survey123, Field Maps, and ArcGIS online on a daily basis to manage crews, plan future hitches, and maintain AIM data. Currently I am developing my skills by learning to do quality control and assurance on audio files, as well as continuing to do these checks on paper and Survey 123 forms. 

I have been actively participating in plant identification techniques since 2019 when I was inspired to become a botanist through my internship with the National Park Service. Since then, I have taken multiple macro and microscopic identification classes, as well as gained experienced through my peers and colleagues. I am now very confident in my plant identification skills and feel that I can learn any new plants I come across with ease. 

Science communication is a huge part of my of my every-day life. Not only do I do my best to represent natural places and animals on my social media, I am also actively involved with many community outreach projects in my area. In college I pushed for community education for various animals and plants throughout my time in the biology club. I am currently one of the main volunteers working with the "Catalina Nature Program," an educational program ran through the Catalina State Park that encourages locals to meet and understand various animals that are often seen as dangerous or scary in the public eye. I am also involved with The Audubon Society and the Tucson Herpetological Society.

My first internship with The National Park Service was focused on the Whitebark Pine, which was recently listed as threatened. I was directly involved in the experimentation and surveys that took place in order to put in for that listing. I later worked with the Clark's Mariposa Lily which was listed as endangered during that time. I am very familiar with precautions that need to be taken when working with federally listed plants and animals. I recently received my Lowland Leopard frog training for swabbing and toe clipping, as well as my Chiricahua Leopard Frog Certification. Currently I am using these skills to work with endangered frogs in Arizona.