Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Created virtual training videos for Chesapeake Water Watch volunteers and conducted a focus group with project partners to a design a data report back template

Worked with the Chesapeake Water Watch project to collect data and validate volunteer samples while researching a potential connection between light attenuation and surface turbidity readings

Created infographics about air quality and air pollution, documented the first air quality installation for the Breathe Baltimore project, and created materials to support data collection and interpretation

Designed a cosplay dress to share Oyster Cam with scientists and cosplayers, and developed videos and scripts for potential project volunteers.

Assisted with the 2020 Spring American Women's History Initiative project Through Her Microscope: Using Stories of the Past and Present Accomplishments of Women in Science to Engage Library Audiences

Focused on transforming and analyzing demographic data from the Chesapeake Bay Parasite Project into a manuscript for publication, discussing Participatory Science collected data and the factors that may affect the percentage missed during sampling and sorting

Created educational videos and tutorials to allow students and teachers to engage with and be excited by the Orchids in the Classroom Participatory Science project

Assisted with the 2019 Participatory Science Newsletter and the Fall 2019 Orchids in the Classrooms experiment

Assisted with the 2018 Participatory Science Newsletter and created lesson plans for the Spring 2019 Orchids in the Classrooms experiment

Organized and analyzed demographic data for the Chesapeake Bay Parasite Project

Researched and created a sustainability report of SERC activities as a starting point for SERCs Sustainability Committee moving towards a Net-Zero goal by 2025.

Organized and analyzed demographic data for the Chesapeake Bay Parasite Project, looking at whether volunteer scientists collected as high-quality data as researchers

Transformed photographing lab methods into protocols that will be used by volunteers for Invader ID project, which identifies invasive species. Tested and finalized which materials worked best to deploy off docks for sample collection

Assisted in data management for the Orchids in the Classrooms project

Helped build student science fair "kits" for high school students (Chapman College)

Engaged communities by compiling projects SERC and local libraries collaborate on (Bryn Mawr College) 

Collaborated on a project, "Transitioning from a 'Traditional' Research Project to a Citizen Science Project" (George Mason, Grad Student)

Created the 2016 Participatory Science Newsletter and videos

Analyzed volunteer use of calipers and how accurately vols can be used to track tree measurements (Smith College)

Created introductory videos about the Global Change Research Wetland

Created a field guide for BiodiversiTREE volunteers 

Focused on erosion and sedimentation archaeology around SERC's campus (University of Maryland, Grad Student)

Organized and analyzed data collected by volunteers with the Bluebird Project (Dickinson College)

Created an Archaeology StoryMap about the history of SERC's campus (University of Chicago)

Examining how environmental factors affect reproduction and fitness in a biparental burying beetle (Queen's University, Grad Student)