Visiting Researcher, Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative
​Jackson, WY and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2021 - 2022)

Interviewed ranchers, hunters, biologists, conservationists, county leaders, wildlife photographers, and community members in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to provide management practitioners better strategies to manage human and grizzly bear interactions as well as human-human conflict mitigation. 

 

Assistant Conservation Project Manager, Habu, Botswana (2018 - 2019)

Worked with village members farmers to mitigate elephant and predator conflict. Collaborated with a women’s garden club to use cluster farming techniques. Wildlife monitoring and anti-poaching patrols with community eco-rangers. 

 

Field Ecologist and Student Coordinator, Chobe, Botswana (2018)

Radio telemetry tracking, behavioral and disease transmission studies on the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo).  African wildlife rehabilitation and necropsy work. Supervised undergrad and graduate students in abroad field research and cultural immersion. 

 

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Research Study, Readsboro, Vermont (2017)

Black bear tracking and radio collaring with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. 

 

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts (2016)

Bird banding and data collection with Mass Audubon Society.

 

EcoQuest Education Foundation, Poor Knights Islands and Goat's Island Marine Reserve, New Zealand (2016)

Ecosystem health assessment using kina (sea urchin) quadrant surveys and fish biodiversity species counts. 

Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand (2016)

Habitat suitability and stream quality assessments with Hochstetter's frog population counts and age composition estimation. 

Arthur's Pass, New Zealand (2016)

Endangered alpine plant survey and climate change adaptation assessment. 

Wharekawa Harbor, New Zealand (2016)

Shellfish monitoring with species counts and line transects.

 

 Round River Conservation Studies, Okavango Delta, Botswana (2015)

Megafauna population density estimation by line transect drives and distance sampling, with endangered bird species counts.