Volunteer Experience
I am currently helping the UN Decade on Ecological Restoration with simple graphic design. An organization participating in the decade sends their version and custom design of a heart, and I incorporate it into the heart in the UN Decade logo.
I have been an active member of the Ancient Forest Committee club at UVic from 2018 to present. I have run several outreach booths to get petition signatures and to do letter writing initiatives in support of Ancient Forest Alliance campaigns.
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I was the secretary for the Society for Ecological Restoration - Niagara College Student Chapter from 2015-2016. I was responsible for keeping meeting minutes, as well as an active member of the Plant Material Management and Research working groups. We worked on a project that is attempting to eradicate Phragmites australis from the campus over time. I helped to do vegetation monitoring along transects on the 'Escarpment Toe', where over the years our professor has been monitoring and has seen notable changes in the density of Phragmites, with more and more dying back each year.
We chose a plot at the front of the campus to conduct an experiment - chopping down the Phragmites and re-planting it with quick growing species such as willow and dogwood, as it is believed that the cause of the die back is due to Phragmites being out-competed by these species, particularly pussy willow. The project itself will take years of monitoring, but the implications could be great! |
In November 2015 I participated on a 'work day' with the The Hamilton Naturalist's Club in the Short Hills Nature Sanctuary. Along with a wonderful, informative hike with 2 experts who enhanced our knowledge of invasive species and forest pests/disease, we were responsible for flagging and girdling Norway Maple trees and helping to free some important endangered species from a dense tangle of grapevine.
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