Work Experience
Professional Positions
Field Interviewer
Research Triangle Institute International
Project: Access Point Angler Intercept Survey Puerto Rico (APAIS)
April-December 2014
Research Associate/
Zooplankton Analyst
Hampton University and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Project: Decrypting the in-situ diet of the globally significant pelagic tunicate Dolioletta gegenbauri
July 2017- March 2018
Field Assistant
Gulf Shellfish Institute, Inc.
Project: Facilitation of seagrass productivity in Tampa Bay, using the indigenous suspension feeding bivalve, Mercenaria campechiensis
March-June 2021
Zooplankton Specialist
Institute of Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS)- University of South Florida
Project: NASA/NOAA South Florida Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
July 2021-Aug 2022
Assistant Coordinator
Making Waves Research Experience for Undergraduates
Science Communication and Interdisciplinary Ocean Research Experience
May-July 2024, 2025
Internships
Summer Intern (2015)
Main tasks: Water Quality Monitoring, seagrass bed mapping (GIS) and environmental interpreter
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Service
Coastal and Marine Ecology Section
Ecological Society of America
Founder, Chair and
Council member
2024-present
Marine Science Advisory Committee
USF
College of Marine Science
Vice-president
2021-2022
Outreach Coordinator
2020-2021
Social Chair
2019-2020
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
South Florida Chapter
Co-Founder and Secretary
2018-2019
USF College of Marine Science Annual Graduate Student Symposium
College of Marine Science
Coordinator 2018-2020
Former affiliations
• Organización Estudiantil de Biología Marina Costanera, Secretary
• Strategies for Ecology Education Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS), Eos SEEDS UPRH Chapter , President
• Hampton University Hispanic/Latino Initiative, Member
• Asociación Estudiantil de Ciencias Marinas (AECiMa) Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Webmaster