Greetings,
I am a motivated, driven and reliable scientist currently working as a masters student and research assistant in the University of Rhode Island’s School of Oceanography. I plan to graduate in 2009, and am interested in continuing research activities in Oceanography.
I have a strong background in programming and developing applications in MATLAB and python, writing/designing web pages and using Microsoft products (Excell, Word, Power Point, etc.) as well as the LaTex type setting program. My prime interest is in physical oceanography and I excel in both hands-on research and computer-oriented data analysis. Working closely with data, performing field work, and being part of a scientific community have been, and continue to be, life-long goals.
In June 2005, I received my Bachelor of Science in Physical Oceanography with a minor in Applied Mathematics. My undergraduate thesis work (or capstone research project) involved locating and measuring phenomena related to internal solitary waves (ISW) in Port Susan, Puget Sound. The results were presented at the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Symposium and at the February 2006 Ocean Sciences Conference in Hawaii.
I worked as a research assistant with Mitsuhiro Kawase, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington while pursuing my undergraduate degree, and continued to work for him for a year before pursuing a masters degree at the University of Rhode Island. I developed a quality control and oxygen calibration system for data collected from the UW PRISM project (http://prism.washington.edu). I also developed a GUI in matlab for a box model of Puget Sound, which was used in a class room setting. With the Dr. Kawase's research group I also work on a project to track effluents through the Sound using the POM model to track particle flow.
I am currently working on a costal frontal zone in the Mid-Atlantic Bight with Dr. Dave Ullman and Dr. Dave Hebert at the University of Rhode Island for my masters research. Results were presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008 in Orland, Florida (abstract), and the annual Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography Meeting (MABPOM) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
You can download my resume here; thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,