Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Synthesized evolving regulatory frameworks to advise stakeholders on compliance with biodiversity and emissions reporting. • Produced presentations on global policy trends analyses and emerging energy technologies for senior partners and clients.
• Generated my dataset by digitizing 400+ high-resolution videos in FIJI. • Developed custom FIJI macros and R and Python scripts to clean and analyze large datasets. • Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to design and execute research projects. • Presented my final honors thesis at undergraduate senior symposium.
• Completed 160+ hours of data processing and 150+ hours of offshore fieldwork. • Field experience in dolphin behavior, photo-ID, acoustic data collection methods, and data coding.
• Studied polychaetes as intermediate hosts for parasites in deep-sea chemosynthetic environments. • Analyzed hundreds of histological slides and dissected ethanol-preserved deep-sea specimens for micro- and macro-parasites.
• Executed experiment investigating inhibitory effects of macroalgal compounds on red tide species, Karenia brevis. • Studied macroalgae-associated bacteria; grew 50+ marine bacterial cultures for DNA analysis. • Assisted on multiple offshore water sampling cruises; took Niskin water samples from 50+ sites. • Sampled and analyzed cell counts (microscopy), photosynthetic activity, and particle analysis (imaging flow cytometry).