| August 2009 – Present | NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA
Research Advisor: Nicholas Kellar Study: “Developing a New Tool to Examine Physiological Stress in Cetaceans: Measuring Glucocorticoids in the Blubber of Arctic Bowhead Whales to Assess Population Health.” |
| June 2010 – Present | "NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA
Research Advisors: Barbara Taylor, Sarah Mesnick Study: “Why Is There a Desert Porpoise? Understanding the Restricted Range of the Critically Endangered Vaquita.” |
| Summer 2009 | UCSD Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences
(STARS) Program; Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
Research Advisors: Sarah Mesnick, Phillip Morin Study: “Comparative Analysis of Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) mtDNA Diversity and Social Structure in the Northwest and Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.” |
| Summer 2008 | Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program on River
and Coastal Restoration, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Research Advisor: Guerry O. Holm, Robert Twilley Study: “Post-Flood Sedimentation and Flood Tolerance of Plant Species in a Young, Emerging Delta” |
| Summer 2007 | Bridges to the Future Program, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Southwestern College and San Diego State University |
