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Education 

Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona
Masters of Science, Forestry (August 2023-May 2025)
  • National Needs Fellow for Culturally Responsible Leaders, awarded by USDA and NAU.
 
Middlebury College Middlebury, VT
Bachelor of Arts, Major Geography (Feb 2018), Dean’s List. 
  • Coursework: R Statistics, GIS, Machine Learning, Data Science, Environmental Change in Latin America
  • Computer Skills: Proficient in R Stats, ArcGIS, Microsoft Suite, QGIS, version control workflows with Github. Working Knowledge: python scripts, Tableau, Adobe Suite, story maps.
 
Language Skills: Fluent in Spanish, English, and conversational in French. 

Experience

New Mexico State Land Office Santa Fe, New Mexico
Surface Division Land Planner (Oct. 2020-Sept 2023)
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  • Research and implement ecosystem services to facilitate conversations on State Trust Lands (i.e. wetland mitigation banking, rangeland carbon credits, alternative restoration leases, etc). 
  • Plan landscape-wide projects, including but not limited to multi-use management of areas, post-fire response and pre-fire season planning, data management, GIS analysis on biological resources (i.e. Dune Sagebrush Lizard connectivity analysis), transportation planning, etc.  
  • Aid in developing compliance standards to guide renewable energy development. 
 
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Front Royal, Virginia. Ecosystem Science Research Assistant (June 2020-November 2020)
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  • Use tree ring data collected from Bandelier National Monument and nine other forests worldwide to understand the climate sensitivity of trees.
  • Manage data, create visualizations, and work collaboratively on data science projects remotely using Github. Contribute to scientific papers, some published and some in prep. 
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USGS New Mexico Landscapes Field Station / Bandelier National Monument Bandelier, New Mexico,
Ecosystem Science Research Assistant (June 2019-June 2020)
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  • Write data management scripts, analyze ecology data, and manage ArcGIS data.
  • Distill research papers and prepare educational materials for the general public in ArcGis story-map format.
  • Collect, process, and date tree-ring samples to contribute to fire-history research of the Southwest.
  • Identify plants of Northern New Mexico for long-term ecological monitoring.
  • Contribute to the resource management team operations, including but not limited to native trout reintroduction planting ponderosa pine and douglas fir. 
 
Center for Geographic Analysis Center, Harvard University Boston, MA  (Summer 2016)
 
  • Assembled hydrological research question and hypothesis, and carried out analysis in R and ArcGIS 
  • Presented poster at Annual AAG conference in Boston, March 2017. 
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