PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1. Designed original lesson plans for ages 8 and up that met New York State and New York City Learning Standards.
2. Produced teaching tools including Go Fish! card game, featuring local fish diversity.
3. Led teacher training workshops through the New York City Department of Education and the Student Conservation Association.
4. Created content for website visited 37,000 times in first 2 years.
5. Created displays for outreach events: posters, portable dioramas, interactives.
6. Designed I FISH NY newsletter, produced triannually. Served as illustrator, regular contributor, and chief copy editor.
7. Illustrated fish for NYSDEC literature, I FISH NY learning aids, and public signage: Go Fish! cards, Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish of New York brochure, Oyster Bay Pier.
8. Developed information graphics for New York State invasive species projects.

1. Taught fish biology, fish biodiversity, marine and freshwater ecology, aquatic conservation, and fishing techniques to over 1500 NYC school children annually through classroom visits and fishing trips.
2. Designed and ran fishing clinics reaching 300 to 400 people annually.
3. Partnered with local environmental organizations: Metropolitan Water Alliance, New York Restoration Project, Rocking the Boat, Partnership for Parks (Queens chapter).

1. Designed, implemented, and analyzed evaluations given to in-school and clinic participants.
2. Co-authored poster used in American Fisheries Society Symposium 2007.
3. Co-authored manuscript for American Fisheries Society Urban Fishing Symposium 2007.
4. Performed fisheries fieldwork: electrofishing, seine netting, and fish data collecting.

1. Prepared data for federal reporting to maintain grant status and monitor program success.
2. Annually reviewed grant proposals for funding other NY Sea Grant projects.

1. Collaborated with museum curators, researched plant and animal morphology, and  corresponded with other research institutions to create scientifically accurate models.
2. Managed outside production teams as scientific advisor.
3. Created and taught curriculum for outreach programs
4. Exhibits included: Hall of Ocean Life, Discovery Room, Hall of Biodiversity, Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease

1. Researched, designed and fabricated educational sculptures and environments
2. Painted sets for video, television, and theater
3. Clients included: Children's Museum of Manhattan (Body Odyssey), Bronx Zoo (Congo Gorilla Forest), others

1. Enhanced and maintained high-visibility Crabapple and Viburnum collections
2. Assisted other collections including National Herb Garden and Fern Valley Native Plant Collection

1. Maintained living collections
2. Performed various propagation techniques
3. Maintained seedling collections
4. Performed work requiring advanced tree climbing

EDUCATION

1. Coursework included marine invertebrate zoology, marine ecology, oceanography, physiology, and documentary studies
2. Thesis research and outreach projects (with Shifting Baselines, of Scripps Institute of Oceanography) included the research, design and production of a personal climate change information card, and the production design of a regional TV public service announcement for marine protected areas
3. Research Assistantship analyzing the migration and life cycle of blue crabs in coastal North Carolina, with Dr. Dan Ritschoff
4. Produced documentary about North Carolinian farmers
5. Produced promotional documentary for Key West Botanical Gardens
6. Distinctions: National Science Foundation K-12 Teaching Fellowship, Nicholas School Merit Scholarship and Environment Assistantship, Audrey Chase Memorial Scholarship for Climate Change

1. Coursework included tropical ecology, botany, oceanography, environmental management, demography
2. Projects: Analyzed species diversity in intertidal zone, identified zooplankton, analyzed ocean floor sediment core
3. Dinstinctions: Graduated Cum Laude, summer scholarship recipient

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