North Carolina State University Pamlico Aquaculture Field Laboratory, Aurora, NC
2017-Present | Provide animal care to fish kept in the facility and facility maintenance through monitoring, feeding, assessments of water quality, and critical decision making in animal care. Primary activities are towards the continuation and further development of strategies for breeding, reproduction and rearing striped bass, white bass, and hybrid striped bass at all stages (eggs, larvae/fry, fingerlings, and grow-out). Activities also include helping to coordinate the distribution of fry, fingerlings, food-fish, and broodstock to producers, seafood distributors, and educational programs.
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
North Carolina State University Grinnell’s Animal Health Laboratory and Lake Wheeler Fish Barn, Raleigh, NC
2017-Present | Provide animal care to fish kept in the facility and facility maintenance through regular monitoring, feeding, assessments of water quality, and critical decision making.
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Many of the activities at the NCSU locations in Aurora and Raleigh are towards the objectives of the National Program for Genetic Improvement and Selective Breeding for the Hybrid Striped Bass Industry and The StriperHub.
The National Program for Genetic Improvement and Selective Breeding for the Hybrid Striped Bass Industry is Co-Coordinated by Drs. Benjamin Reading (NC State University) and Adam Fuller (USDA ARS Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center, link). The goal of the National Program is domestication and selective breeding to produce superior striped bass and hybrid striped bass cultivars that will enable commercial producers not only to continue bringing fish to market, but also to decrease product prices and expand the industry. For more information about the National Program please see: the NCSU CALS Dept. of Applied Ecology page on Striped Bass linked here.
The StriperHub is a North Carolina-based network of several Sea Grant programs, industry partners, university researchers, NCDA & CS, and USDA and other federal scientists, seeking to overcome barriers to development and expansion of the striped bass aquaculture industry through the demonstration and promotion of commercial-level culture, economics, and marketing of these fish in the US. The establishment of StriperHub is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant Office Advanced Aquaculture Collaborative Program, which seeks to bolster domestic aquaculture production by funding and promoting national aquaculture centers (hubs) for candidate aquaculture species. This NOAA National Sea Grant program and the StriperHub share the goal of strengthening domestic seafood production and boost the economies of coastal and rural communities in North Carolina and along the Atlantic coast. For more information about the StriperHub please see: the NC Sea Grant article linked here.
University of Maryland Crane Aquaculture Facility, College Park, MD
2015-2016 | Provided animal care to fish kept in the facility and facility maintenance through regular monitoring, feeding, assessments of water quality, and critical decision making.
Position: Aquaculture Technician
Environmental Chemical Corporation (ECC), Abingdon, MD
2014-2017 | Assisted with a variety of tasks completed to measure the environmental impact of materials and activities stored, used, and/or taking place on on military bases in the mid-Atlantic. These tasks included, but were not limited to: monitoring water treatment plant processes to determine effectiveness and compliance with discharge parameters into aquifer (Gunpowder River, Chesapeake Bay tributary); managing the groundwater treatment plant effluent biomonitoring system that utilized Bluegill fish to ensure that facility effluent was not of acute toxicity levels; assisting with weekly, monthly, and annual sampling events (water, soil) conducted to verify groundwater quality; helping to oversee the compliance of drilling projects with government environmental standards; and compiling and reviewing documents and embedded tables and figures that were included in reports sent to government agencies (Army Corps of Engineers, USGS, etc.).
Positions: Summer Intern (2014, 2015, & 2016), Environmental Scientist I (2017)
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