I have moderate proficiency in programming with R, and beginner proficiency in programming with Python. I have used R for data processing, analysis, and visualizations. Including making figures for publication. 

Along with other members of the UMMZ Herpetology community, we got the opportunity to get trained in catching and handling invasive Burmese pythons with Florida Fish and Wildlife. This included shadowing technicians during their evening python surveys. 

I worked with Roberto Márquez, a then Postdoc at the University of Michigan and assisted in the care, feeding, breeding, and raising of a four-species poison dart frog (Phyllobates) colony.

As part of my TA Position for EEB 450: Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, I lead tours of the Leslie Science & Nature Center and surrounding areas in search of ambystoma salamanders.

I traveled with members of the UMMZ Wet Lab community including Fish Collections manager Randal Singer and PhD students Hayley Crowell and John David Curtis. We spent time collecting fish and invasive species in the water systems around Cape Coral Florida. This was in collaboration -- and friendly competition -- with other universities and organizations, known as Fish Slam. I used various fish collecting techniques including electroboat fishing, staining, dip netting, and pole fishing. We then participated in tissue collection, specimen fixing, processing, and preservation prep in the field. 

While assisting graduate student research Brianna Friday, (Dr. Donna Kashian Lab), I traveled to over a dozen inland lakes in Michigan and collected presence absence data on frog occurrences via listening for calls in lakes at risk for algal blooms. I would travel to these lakes and sit and wait for 15 minutes on the edge of the water to listen and identify what frogs’ calls were heard.