TEACHING & SERVICE

Teaching

TEACHING ASSISTANT

2020 - Field Problems in Ecosystem Science and Policy ( ECS-112 ), University of Miami

2019 - Introduction to Earth’s Ecosystems (ECS-111), University of Miami

2019 - Summer Scholars Program: Shark Research Academy, University of Miami

2014 - Introduction to Organismal Biology (BIOL-111), McGill University

2014 - Cell and Molecular Laboratory (BIOL-112), McGill University

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

2017, 2022 - Fiji Shark Studies (field course), Broadreach Summer program, in Pacific Harbor Fiji
(3 weeks, 3 sessions)

2016 - Caribbean Marine Biology (field course), Broadreach Summer program, in Sint Maarten
(3 weeks, 3 sessions)

GUEST LECTURES

I have been invited to give guest lectures and research seminars at 15+ academic and research institutions across Canada and the USA.

STUDENT MENTORSHIP

2024: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Amenya Jean (Summer student fellow)

2020-2023: University of Miami - Samantha Orndorff (Undergraduate senior honors thesis), Tiffany Ortner (Undergraduate researcher), Delaney Reynolds (Undergraduate senior honors thesis)

2018-2022: University of Miami - Females In Natural Sciences (F.I.N.S.): trip leader and mentor

2018-2022: Supervision and/or training of >50 undergraduate and 5 graduate students in shark tagging and handling experimental protocols for a variety of shark species in Florida

2012-2018: Supervision and/or training of >20 undergraduate and 10 graduate students in care and physiology experimental protocols for a variety of Canadian, African and South American freshwater fishes

Service & Professional Development

PEER REVIEW

Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Discoveries (specialty section of Frontiers in Marine Science)
Conservation Physiology
Endangered Species Research
Hydrobiologia
PeerJ - Life and Environmental Sciences
PLOS One
Total Science of the Environment
Nature Climate Change

CERTIFICATIONS & WORKSHOPS

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Graduate Student Training (2021, 2022)
University of Miami Racial and Cultural Competency Training (2021)
OceanHackWeek Participant (2021)
Motorboat Operator Certification Course (MOCC) (2020)
Marine Megafauna Task Team Workshop at OceanObs’19 conference (2019)
British Ecological Society Animal Movement R Workshop Participant (2019)
IACUC CITI Animal Care (2018, recert 2022)
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Training (2015)
DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries (2015)
PADI: Rescue Diver (2011), Open Water (2007)