When not working I love learning alongside and exploring the world with my daughter, going to see live music, trying new food, visiting new brewpubs, watching and going to West Virginia University basketball and football games (Go Mountaineers!), and traveling with my family. Meeting great people along the way is something I really enjoy as well. Between graduate research work and working as an environmental consultant, I have been lucky to visit and work in some of the most beautiful and remote areas of central Appalachia and the surrounding regions. My thesis work focused on the temporal and spatial stability of benthic macroinvertebrate communities under various water quality scenarios within Muddy Creek of the Cheat River watershed. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources. I met a lot of amazing, supportive people in the watershed science and ecology field and after two years I attended West Virginia University and obtained a M.S. I immediately joined the Americorps VISTA program to work with a watershed based non-profit organization in West Virginia. degree in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management from The Ohio State University. I grew up in Troy, Ohio and obtained a B.S. With WLS I will be utilizing these skillsets to assist in the successful completion of projects and demonstrate to the rest of the team, with qualitative and semi-quantitative data, that their hard work paid off. These included E&S control monitoring for federally listed species, stream and wetland delineations and habitat assessments, fish and benthic macroinvertebrate community assessments, freshwater mussel surveys and relocations (including threatened and endangered species), long-term freshwater mussel community and habitat monitoring, threatened and endangered crayfish surveys, and all associated GIS mapping and reporting. I have experience wearing a variety of hats as an environmental scientist on projects throughout the Midwest, Appalachian, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions.
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