Undergraduate Education
From August 2018 to May 2022, I received my undergraduate education from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. While there, I earned bachelor's degrees in biology with a natural science emphasis, wildlife ecology, and a minor degree in entomology. Relevant courses that helpe expand my knowledge of wildlife ecology include plant diversity, wetlands, principles of entomology, wildlife ecology and management, wildlife of florida, introduction to conservation genetics, economic issues food and you, insect classification, natural resource policy, human dimensions of natural resource management, quantitative wildlife ecology, evolution, avian biology, landscape ecology, introduction to wildlife population ecology, and wildlife techniques. As an undergraduate research assistant, I aided in two research projects. The first research work I participated in was a local project run by Dr. Matthew Hallett. The goal of this project was to monitor and record the various wildlife species using the local portion of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. My duties largely centered around processing camera trap photos from the many trail cameras set up along the corridor as well as deploying and retrieving camera traps. I also worked as an undergraduate assistant in Dr. Christina Romagosa's lab, where I helped process and identify the dietary components of invasive Argentine Black and White Tegus (Salvator merianae) for a graduate research project investigating how these invasive lizards were impacting the southern Florida ecosystem.
