Outreach and Service
Outreach
From making videos to inform the world to participating in SciComm Outreach at local venues, I enjoy all types of outreach. One of my favorite activities for outreach is scraping off the fouling community from a dock and showing folks all the wonderful critters that live there. Watching parents and their children be amazed at the diversity of sea life is truly wonderful. I have had the privilege of displaying these animals to elementary schools, colleges, and local community events in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. Recently, I have also developed two activities (~45 min each) for students (ages 12-18) to learn about deep-sea animal morphology and ecology.
Service
While at Texas A&M University in Galveston, I had the privilege of sharing my passion for marine invertebrates with undergraduates by instructing the Introductory Biology (I & II) and Invertebrate Zoology laboratory sections. I also acted as a consultant for revamping the Introductory Biology labs after I had taught them. Whenever, I have the chance, I have a tendency to show people worms and teach them about their anatomy. During my M.Sc. studies at Nova Southeastern University, I also taught invertebrate and juvenile fish anatomy to volunteers for the USGS. In the past two years, I have written press releases and science journalism stories to attempt to better my science communication skills.