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Skills and Achievements

Skills & Strengths

Personal Skills

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  • Friendly and personable

  • Strong leadership qualities

  • Responsible, respectful, patient and mature

  • Often unbothered by and adaptable to change

Technical Skills

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  • Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS)

  • Transit / Total Station

  • Jacob's Staff & Brunton

  • Excel & PowerPoint

  • PAST (paleontological statistics software)

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • SketchUp

Strengths

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  • Strong written and oral communicator

  • Observant and curious

  • Organizational skills

  • Well versed at paleontological field work and fossil preparation

  • Understanding of geological processes and rocks

  • Knowledgeable of many plants and animals, locally and in general

  • Dedicated to doing the job right

  • Self-motivated

  • Lifelong learner

Research Methods / Equipment

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  • X-ray Fluorescence (PFRX)

  • X-ray Diffraction (XRD)

  • Magnetic Susceptibility (MS)

  • Gamma-ray Spectroscopy (GS)

  • Loss on Ignition (LOI)

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
― Thomas Jefferson

Achievements

  • Presenting poster about my research at GSA Connects, 2022

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  • Securing an Internship at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and being asked to return twice for positions of increasing responsibility, 2021-2022 & 2023*

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  • Fischer Scholarship from GGES Dept. UW-Whitewater

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  • Honor Student, 2019-2022

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  • Eagle Scout, 2012

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