48- SCUBA diving and snorkelling, often in cold or rough conditions, in waters with poor
visibility and in remote locations
- Use of small boats and trawling vessels to undertake benthic & plankton trawls
- Regular monitoring of settlement plates
- Acquiring sediment cores and water samples for nutrient and phytoplankton studies
- Supervision and instruction of first year science students during biology practicals.
- Weekly collection and husbandry of marine invertebrates from Port Phillip Bay and
Southern Ocean waters for Invertebrate Zoology class
Additional Experience and Skills
Assistant Team Manager, State Revenue Office of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia : Dec 1997
– Dec 1999
- Management of 30 employees, produced procedure manual
- Analysis of section statistics and compilation of team and revenue reports for State Treasury
- Recipient of the State Commissioner’s Monthly Excel Award
- Answering complex customer inquiries relating to state legislation
Computer experience
- Word processing programs including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Statistical, database and graphics software including: ArcView GIS, Minitab, JMP, Sigma
Stat, Ocean Data View, Sigma Plot, Surfer Plot, Adobe Photoshop, Morpho metadata
software, Graph Click
Microscopy Experience
- Dissecting, light and scanning electron microscopes
- Phase contrast and epifluorescent microscopy using FISH
- Histological and microscopy preparation of soft bodied and microscopic tissue samples
- Critical point drying
SCUBA Experience
- Blue-water diving experience
- SCUBA certified, NASDS Open Water Diver, with approx. 200 logged dives
- Underwater photography and video
- Scientific collection of jellyfish and other marine species
Professional Development, Community Service & Awards
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