Relevant Work Experience:
Feb.-May 2007 Teaching Assistant, Chem. & Physical
Oceanography, Eckerd College
Prepared and cleaned laboratory weekly and assisted the
professor
with teaching and monitoring students in the lab.
Summer 2006 REU Intern, Emi Ito, PhD., University of
Minnesota
Received an REU to research the nature and origin of a specific
pattern of color change in nine lacustrine cores from Minnesota
and Michigan at the Limnological Research Center. L*a*b* color
analysis was preformed on high-resolution images of the core
sections and compared to coulometry, SEM, smear slides, and
XRF results. Presented results at the fall 2006 AGU conference in
San Francisco.
May 2004- May 2006 Research Assistant, David Hastings, PhD.,
Eckerd College
Studied microfossils collected from core samples retrieved from
Tampa Bay. Samples were analyzed for their elemental content,
which was interpreted to deduce the temperature of Tampa Bay
throughout the Holocene.
While at Eckerd, I worked for Dr. David Hastings of Eckerd
College and Dr. Benjamin Flower of the University of South
Florida, on the Tampa Bay Project, an interdisciplinary project
that was created as a proxy for bay studies throughout the
United States. My duties ranged from core division and
collection and identification of Foraminifera and Ostracodes to
preparation and analysis of the samples for magnesium,
calcium, and strontium ratios.
In the summer of 2006, I completed a REU internship at the
University of Minnesota’s Limnological Research Center, home of
the National Lacustrine Core Respository. My project was headed
by Professor Emi Ito and lab manager Amy Myrbo. I studied the
cause of a strange banding color pattern found in many lake
cores taken from Minnesota. My analysis of the core samples
included X-Ray Fluorescence, carbon coulometry, scanning
electron microscopy and smear slide analysis. Additionally, I
preformed high-resolution L*a*b color analysis to correlate the
elemental content found to the physical appearance of the
samples. I presented a poster of my research at the 2006 AGU
meeting in San Francisco. I have been involved in every aspect of
core retrieval, study and archiving.
I am looking for a temporary (~ 1 year) appointment to further
increase my preparedness for work at the graduate level. Ideally,
I am looking to work on multiple projects as a way to narrow
down my own research interests. Broadly, I am interested in
research involving paleoclimate, high-latitudes, chemical
tracers, and carbon sequestration. | 
