Skills Learned

Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp

• Worked with diverse teams on a variety of mapping projects

• Created, edited, and explained geologic maps, cross-sections, and sketches

• Drafted reports on geologic history and variables of geologic events (i.e. landslides)

• Examined and analyzed satellite imagery, DEM layers, and other forms of data to distinguish features likes rock units, faults, etc.

• Performed GIS operations on layers to perform such tasks as deriving relief from DEM data and separating Quartenary units from each other

• Maintained precise field notes on outcrops and annotated sketches

September 2011 - 2017

Chemistry Minor

• Balanced chemical reactions and able to classify them based on reactants and products

• Maintained laboratory notebooks with each lab containing

  • Title

  • Purpose

  • Procedure

  • Data

  • Calculations

  • Summary

  • Conclusions

  • My signature and date

• Evaluated my data for inconsistencies and errors, including operator error

• Performed experiments in acid-base titrations, EDTA titrations, electrochemistry, atomic spectroscopy, analytical separations, gas chromatography, coulometry, and other subjects

• Operated, cleaned, and maintained a wide variety of glassware and instruments, including but not limited to pipettes, flasks, magnetic stirrers/hotplates, centrifuges, and spectrometers

• Performed statistical calculations on data, such as mean, weighted mean, and standard deviation

September 2011 to May 2017

Geology Major

• Identified minerals and rocks using a variety of physical characteristics

• Identified and distinguished between crystal systems

• Identified different fossils of different periods and managed to classify them according to taxonomy and the period(s) in which they were found

• Analyzed thin sections of sedimentary rock to determine composition of grains and cement

• Analyzed a wide variety of different types of maps for geologic and geographic information relevant to the task at hand

• Constructed geologic maps and cross-sections, and from those maps and cross-sections, calculated apparent dip, true dip, and a multitude of other information

• Drafted a cross-section of the Baraboo Syncline using readings from a Brunton Compass and geologic mapping

• Used both sieves and hydrometers to collect grain size distribution data, and performed statistical calculations on said data

• Performed analyses on a variety of media, including loss on ignition with potential carbonate rocks and water retention of soil

• Calculated the activities of dissolved species and complexes from a water quality analysis

• Performed operations and calculations in ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online for a variety of projects, including but not limited to:

  • Cartographic modeling

  • Surface analysis and forest cover

  • Differential positioning (data was obtained through a Trimble Nomad, and processed using ArcGIS)

  • Geocoded address database

  • Mapping and analyzing landscape change

  • Resolution and scale comparisons

• Related and transformed remotely sensed image data to true geographic location

• Detected, interpreted, measured, and classified natural and cultural features from aerial photographs and digital images

2015 to Present