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Education: 1995 B.S. - Environmental Studies minor in Biology. Florida International University, Miami, FL. 1991 A.A. - Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL.
2004 — Present: Senior Biological Scientist (Southeast Environmental Research Center, Miami, FL) — Involved in planning, organizing, and conducting group research on several key South Florida restoration and research projects along with co-supervising the day-to-day operations of the South Florida Terrestrial Ecosystem Lab. Duties include, but are not limited to: data collection, processing and analysis; aerial photograph interpretation, map making, and spatial data analysis using GIS/GPS integrated systems; airboat operator; computer software and hardware installation along with web page design; and the preparation, writing, and presentation of technical reports and peer-review documents.
1995 — 2003: Research Assistant (Southeast Environmental Research Center, Miami, FL) — Involved in planning, organizing, and conducting group research on several key South Florida restoration and research projects. Duties include, but are not limited to: data collection, processing and analysis; aerial photograph interpretation, map making, and spatial data analysis using GIS/GPS integrated systems; airboat operator; computer software and hardware installation along with web page design; and the preparation, writing, and presentation of technical reports and peer-review. 1994 — 1995: Lab Technician (Southeast Environmental Research Center, Miami, FL) — Responsible for gathering, constructing and maintaining a diatom reference library as well as a diatom database for the purpose of quantifying the relationship between present and past vegetation patterns and hydrological conditions in Southeast Florida. Tasks associated with this activity included: developing a procedure for cleaning diatom-bearing sediments including cores; preparing diatoms slides for observation and photography; and identifying diatoms at the species level. |
