Scott D. Cinel | Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biology | University of Florida | Florida Museum of Natural History
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity | Kawahara Lab | Insect Evolution, Behavior, & Genomics
Cinel1@ufl.edu | (708) 502-5161 | @ScottCinel
Web of Science ResearcherID: W-3410-2019
Scopus Author ID: 57190112356
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0471-7098ACADEMIC TRAINING
Aug 2016 – Present
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology, University of Florida | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow | University of Florida Graduate School Fellow | GPA: 4.00/4.00
August 2014 – 2016
Master of Science in Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training - Vertically Integrated Training in Genomics Fellow | GPA: 3.87/4.00 | Thesis Title: Transcriptional effects of indirect predator cues in the brain of eared Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) moths exposed to bat ultrasound (Link)
May 2010 – 2014
Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences | Graduated with Highest Honors, Bronze Tablet Scholar - Top 3% of College | GPA: 3.95/4.00
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Fall 2016 – Present
Research Volunteer, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture | Advised by Dr. Paul Shirk, Dr. Rob Meagher, and Dr. Richard Mankin | Researching long-term effects of predation risk on neurophysiological stress responses and neural plasticity in young adult corn earworm moths (Helicoverpa zea; Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) exposed to recorded bat calls
Fall 2016 – Present
Graduate Student Fellow, Kawahara Lab, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida | Doctoral research advised by Dr. Akito Kawahara | Examining transcriptomic and proteomic signals of predator-induced stress in the developing brains of young adult ultrasound-sensitive moths exposed to free-flying bats, white noise, and no noise whatsoever to pinpoint testable neurophysiological hypotheses for future integration into work characterizing a ‘Landscape of Fear’ emerging from bat-moth interactions on a regional scale | Investigating the behavioral, physiological, genomic, and transcriptomic mechanisms that drive patterns of prey avoidance and predation risk assessment across heterogeneous landscapes
Spring 2015
Student Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama | Advised by Dr. Steve Taylor, Dr. Rachel Page, and Dr. Owen McMillan | Participated in an intensive tropical field ecology course focused on integrating genomics with natural history | Developed experimental approaches to test the "Landscape of Fear" hypothesis in a co-evolved predator-prey system by examining the spatial distribution of nocturnal butterflies, their stress gene expression, and bat echolocation calls along a gradient of predation risk
Fall 2014
Research Intern, Illinois Natural History Survey, Taylor Macroinvertebrate Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. Steve Taylor | Built drip collecting apparatus for collecting organisms living within subterranean drip water from stalactites | Identified the community of copepods, amphipods, midge larvae, and worms that live within the epikarst
Summer 2014
Research Assistant, Illinois Natural History Survey, Taylor Macroinvertebrate Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. Steve Taylor | Assisted with aquatic and terrestrial macroinvertebrate collection and processing | Collected and aided in analysis of various environmental data associated with Illinois caves and waterways
Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
Undergraduate Researcher, University of Illinois, Fraterrigo Biogeochemical Systems Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. Jennifer Fraterrigo | Conducted independent research on the mechanisms underlying the biogeochemical manipulation of soil carbon and nitrogen by invasive Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum)
Summers 2012 & 2013
Research Intern, University of Illinois, College of ACES Office of Research Summer Internship Program | Advised by Dr. Jennifer Fraterrigo, Dr. Michael Ward, and Mr. James Kirkland | Carried out studies on the impacts that invasive Microstegium vimineum has on passerine nesting success and forest carbon and nitrogen cycles | Utilized GIS to produce private land management maps | Led and participated in outreach events for the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Illinois
Spring 2013
Undergraduate Researcher and Assistant, University of Illinois, Miller Conservation Biology & Landscape Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. James Miller | Conducted independent research on host selection and its drivers in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater)
Winter 2012
Study Abroad Research Participant in Bioanthropology, La Suerte Biological Research Station, Costa Rica | Advised by Dr. Paul Garber | Completed a study on the effects of anthropogenic forest fragmentation and disturbance on the behavior, home range, and habitat utilization of mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata)
Fall 2012
Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Miller Conservation Biology & Landscape Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. James Miller and Dr. Tim Lyons | Assisted a graduate student with a study concerning grassland fires and their impacts on grassland birds
Spring 2012
Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Wahl Aquatic Ecology Laboratory | Advised by Dr. Corey Deboom | Assisted a graduate student with data entry and analysis on a project concerning predatory behavior interactions between muskellunge and large mouth bass
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Functional Vertebrate Anatomy ZOO3713C (In-person), Department of Biology, University of Florida | Managed 4 weekly laboratory sections with a total of 20 undergraduate students; mentored students on comparative vertebrate anatomy concepts and guided multiple vertebrate dissections; 12 hrs/week
Fall 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cellular and Systems Physiology PCB3713 (Online), Department of Biology, University of Florida | Developed online research proposal and report assignments with peer feedback and reflections using the EduFlow system for over 30 students; managed online submission grading and weekly office hours; 10 hrs/week
November 2016 – May 2018
Teaching Aide, Upward Bound Program, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL | Mentored high school students at schools servicing rural communities neighboring Gainesville, FL during after-school tutoring sessions and SAT/ACT Test Preparation sessions on weekends; 5 hrs/week
FELLOWSHIPS
University of Florida Graduate School Fellow, 2019 - 2021
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 2016 - 2019
National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training - Vertically Integrated Training in Genomics Fellow, 2014-2016
HONORS AND AWARDS
First Place, FL Museum of Natural History’s Elegance of Science Art Contest, 2018
Honorable Mention, University of Florida’s Elegance of Science Art Contest, 2017
First Place, Nature Category, UIUC School of Integrative Biology’s Photo Competition, 2016
University of Illinois’ Bronze Tablet Award Recipient 2014
Illinois Water Conference Scholarship Recipient 2014
Outstanding Senior in the NRES Fish and Wildlife Conservation Concentration 2014
Member of Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honors Society 2014
Member of Phi Eta Sigma Academic Honors Society 2010-2014
Illinois Federation for Outdoor Resources Merit Scholarship 2012-2014
President’s Merit Award 2010-2014
Dean’s List 2010-2014
Wilmer Hellenthal Scholarship 2013
Jonathan Baldwin Turner Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2012
Orville G. Bentley Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 2012
E. M. & Martha C. Chandler Merit Scholarship 2012
Vernon McGinnis Merit Scholarship 2012
I4I Study Abroad Scholarship 2012
Campus Merit Award 2010-2012
PUBLICATIONS
Cinel, S.D., A.Y. Kawahara, R.W. Mankin, and R. Meagher. Bat call and broadband ultrasound exposure influence moth reproductive physiology and development. Journal of Experimental Biology. (In prep)
Cinel, S.D. and A.Y. Kawahara. Predator-induced insect stress responses: A mechanistic review of taxon- and sensory-specific biases. Journal of Insect Physiology 122. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191017303980?via%3Dihub
Cinel, S.D. and S.J. Taylor. (2019). Prolonged exposure to ultrasonic bat calls induces a transcriptional stress response in the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda; Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) brain. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13:36. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399161/pdf/fnbeh-13-00036.pdf
Triant, D.A., S.D. Cinel, and A.Y. Kawahara. 2018. Lepidoptera genomes: current knowledge, gaps and future directions. Current Opinions in Insect Science 25, 99 – 105. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221457451730175X
Halsey, S., S.D. Cinel, J. Wilson, T.J. Bell and M. Bowles. 2017. Predicting population viability of a monocarpic perennial dune thistle using individual-based models. Ecological Modeling 359, 363 – 371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.014
PRESENTATIONS
Sondhi, Y., S.D. Cinel, J. Theobald, and A.Y. Kawahara. Hidden ultraviolet wing patterns and evolution of visual genes in diurnal and nocturnal Lepidoptera. Janelia Conference on Colour Vision: Behaviour and Circuits. Poster session. Ashburn, Virginia. April 7, 2019.
Cinel, S.D. Predation risk-induced physiology and neural plasticity: How bat calls can influence brain development. Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services Seminar Series. City of Knowledge, Panama City, Republic of Panama. 13 March, 2019. 50-min seminar.
Cinel, S.D., A.Y. Kawahara, and S.J. Taylor. Transcriptomic signals of cellular stress in fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda; Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) brain tissue after prolonged auditory exposure to bat calls. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL, USA. Jan 3 – 7, 2019. 15-min paper talk.
Cinel, S.D. and A.Y. Kawahara. Examining the transcriptional effects of prolonged bat-call exposure in the brain of the fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda). 2018 Entomological Societies of America, British Columbia, and Canada Joint Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 11 – 14, 2018. 3-min lightning talk and poster session.
Cinel, S.D. and A.Y. Kawahara. Examining the transcriptional effects of prolonged bat-call exposure in the brain of the fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda). 2018 Science by the Shore Symposium hosted by the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience. St. Augustine, FL. September 22, 2018. Poster session.
Cinel, S.D. and A.Y. Kawahara. Examining the transcriptional effects of prolonged bat-call exposure in the brain of the fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda). 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions. Ventura, CA. January 28 – February 2, 2018. Poster session.
Cinel, S.D., S.J. Taylor, and O. McMillan. Nocturnal bats and butterflies: a landscape-genomic approach to characterizing a landscape of fear. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellows and Interns Symposium. March 27, 2015. Poster session.
Cinel, S.D. and S.J. Taylor. Epikarstic groundwater ecosystems in Illinois: a sensitive but unstudied faunal element. Illinois Water 2014 Conference. October 14-15, 2014. Poster session.
Cinel, S.D. and J.M. Fraterrigo. The effects of Japanese stiltgrass on forest biogeochemical cycles. UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium. April, 2014. Champaign, IL. Poster session.
Cinel, S.D. and J.M. Fraterrigo. The effects of Japanese stiltgrass on forest biogeochemical cycles. UIUC Summer Research Internship Symposium. September 2013. Champaign, IL. Oral presentation.
Cinel, S.D. and M.P. Ward. The impacts of invasive Microstegium vimineum on the nesting success of passerine population in southern Illinois. UIUC Summer Research Internship Symposium. August 2012. Simpson, IL. Oral presentation.
GRANTS
Cinel, S.D. January 2020. Fulbright U.S. Student Program Semi-Finalist. Predation Risk-Induced Neural Plasticity in the Brain of the Corn Earworm Pest Moth.
Cinel, S.D. January 2020. University of Florida Office of Research Travel Grant. Predation-Risk Induced Reproductive Physiology and Offspring Performance in Bat Call-Exposed Corn Earworm Moths. Supported attendance at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions in Ventura, CA. $800.
Cinel, S.D. January 2020. Florida Museum of Natural History’s Annual Student Travel Grant. Predation-Risk Induced Reproductive Physiology and Offspring Performance in Bat Call-Exposed Corn Earworm Moths. Supported attendance at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions in Ventura, CA. $1,000.
Cinel, S.D. December 2019. University of Florida Graduate Student Council Travel Grant. Predation-Risk Induced Reproductive Physiology and Offspring Performance in Bat Call-Exposed Corn Earworm Moths. Supported attendance at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions in Ventura, CA. $350.
Cinel, S.D. November 2019. University of Florida Research Abroad for Doctoral Students Award. Predation Risk-Induced Neural Plasticity in the Brain of the Corn Earworm Pest Moth. $5,000.
Cinel, S.D. February 2019. University of Florida Open Access Publishing Fund Support for article “Prolonged exposure to ultrasonic bat calls induces a transcriptional stress response in the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda; Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) brain” published in Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience. $1,500.
Cinel, S.D. February 2019. Brian Riewald Memorial Fund Research Grant Recipient. University of Florida, Department of Biology Annual Grants Competition. Predation risk-induced neural plasticity in the brain of young adult corn earworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). $300.
Cinel, S.D. February 2019. Fulbright U.S. Student Program Alternative Awardee. Predation Risk-Induced Neural Plasticity in the Brain of the Corn Earworm Pest Moth.
Cinel, S.D. April 2018. Florida Museum of Natural History’s Annual Student Travel Grant. The demographic and physiological effects of bat predation risk on tympanate Lepidoptera: Community demography, localized fitness, and stress neurophysiology within a Landscape of Fear. $1000 for 1 year.
Cinel, S.D. March 2018. Prairie Biotic Research, Inc. Small Grants Competition. Documenting the Demographic Effect of Ambient Bat Predation Risk in Prairies. $1500 for 1 year.
Cinel, S.D. January 2018. University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Travel Grant w/ matching funds provided by the Department of Biology in support of attendance at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions in Ventura, CA from Jan 28 – Feb 2, 2018. $475 in total.
Cinel, S.D. May 2017. Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid of Research Recipient. Investigating the Neurohormonal and Sex-Biased Nature of Ultrasonic Bat Call-Induced Fitness Impacts in the Stored Product Pest Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). $1000 for 1 year.
Cinel, S.D. February 2017. Brian Riewald Memorial Fund Research Grant Recipient. University of Florida, Department of Biology Annual Grants Competition. Determining the Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms Affecting Induced Stress Responses and Fitness After Long-Term Exposure to Bat Ultrasound in an Agricultural Pest Moth. $300 in research support.
Cinel, S.D. April 2016. Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grant Recipient. Exploring Predator-Induced Transcriptional Stress Responses of the Corn Earworm Pest. Declined due to conflict with other fellowship.
Cinel, S.D. December 2015. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Research Support Stipend. The Landscape of Fear: Characterizing Predator-Induced Stress in an Agricultural Pest. $700.
Cinel, S.D. September 2015. NSF IGERT Vertically Integrated Training in Genomics Research Support Grant. The Landscape of Fear: Characterizing Predator-Induced Stress in an Agricultural Pest. $5000.
Cinel, S.D. June 2015 Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grant. A Landscape-Genomic Approach to Characterizing a Landscape of Fear. $1000 for 1 year.
Cinel, S.D. 2014. The Impacts of White-Nose Syndrome on Natural Predator-Prey Dynamics in Southwestern Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate College Master’s Project Travel Grant. $400 for 1 year.
Taylor, S.J., M.L. Niemiller, and S.D. Cinel. 2014. Threats analysis and conservation actions for the Illinois Cave Amphipod: Vulnerability assessment of groundwater quality, land use and climate change impacts. Department of Natural Resources. $35,000 for 2 years (1 October 2014 – 30 September 2016).
Taylor, S.J. and S.D. Cinel. 2014. Epikarstic groundwater ecosystems in Illinois: a sensitive but unstudied faunal element. Illinois Water Resources Council. $7,567 for 8 months (1 May 2014 – 31 December 2014).
FUND RAISING
I2LResearch Ltd. donation to S.D. Cinel in the amount of $1000 on behalf of work completed by collaborator Dr. Richard Mankin (USDA).
Fundraised over $1800.00 on GoFundMe.com for travel support to attend the 2017 Workshop on Genomics in Cesky-Krumlov, Czech Republic.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
December 2020, Journal of Insect Physiology Reviewer, 1 paper reviewed to date.
March 2020, Journal of Comparative Physiology B Reviewer, 1 paper reviewed to date.
September 2019 – Present, Elected as the Graduate Student Representative of the Biology Graduate Student Association for the University of Florida’s Graduate Student Council.
April 2019, Journal of Translational Medicine Reviewer, 1 paper reviewed to date.
September 2018 – December 2018, Member of the Board on Mental Health, a component of the Biology Graduate Student Association at the University of Florida.
May 2018, Elected to the Board of the Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program, sponsored by the Biology Graduate Student Association at the University of Florida.
May 2017, PLoS One Peer Reviewer, 1 paper reviewed to date.
May 2017 – Present, Elected to the Seminar Support and Green Team Member officer positions for the Biology Graduate Student Association at the University of Florida.
August 2016 – Present, Member of the Biology Graduate Student Association at the University of Florida.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
February 14, 2019. Featured research on Indiana University’s National Center for Genome Analysis Support website entitled, “IU genome center helps shed light on insect evolution.” Link: https://itnews.iu.edu/articles/2019/IU-genome-center-helps-shed-light-on-insect-evolution-.php
February 1, 2019. Career Shadowing Mentor. Federal TRiO Program iDigTRiO Biological Sciences Career Conference and Fair. Gainesville, FL USA
January 3 – 8, 2019. Conference photographer. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL USA.
November 11 – 14, 2018, Student registration volunteer. 2018 Entomological Societies of America, British Columbia, and Canada Joint Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
August 2018, Elegance of Science Art Competition Photo Essay, featured in Our Town Magazine 9 (4), pp. 118 - 125, the leading local bimonthly magazine in the greater Gainesville, FL area.
November 2017 – July 2018, Collaborating and mentoring three volunteer research assistants, one undergraduate and one professional biologist, that are aiding in data collection and sample processing for my dissertation research at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity.
May 2016, Planned and carried out an insect petting zoo demonstration to nearly 100 kindergarten and 2nd grade students at St. Clements Elementary School in Chicago, IL.
February 2016, Aided in set-up and running insect petting zoos, an annual insect themed art contest for local grade schoolers, and presenting collections of diverse, dried specimens from around the world at the University of Illinois Department of Entomology’s 31st Annual Insect Fear Film Festival.
November 2015, Presented an educational insect petting zoo exhibit to over 100 3rd through 5th grade students at St. Joseph’s Elementary School in Wilmette, IL.
July 2015, Assisted STRI and the Make a Wish Foundation by helping a Make a Wish patient reach their dream of becoming an entomologist through taking them out into the jungle during the night and showing them how to run a light-trap setup.
June 2015, Featured story in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Tropicos magazine on the suite of intricate chemical relationships tropical flora and fauna have with each other and their environment.
Link: http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/tropicos/pdf/TROPICOS_June_2015.pdf
June 2015, Brought in insects and arachnids to showcase and presented a lesson on insects, arachnids, and other arthropods to over 80 K-3rd graders at St. Tarcissus Elementary School in Park Forest, IL.
August 2014 – 2016, Member of the Entomology Graduate Student Association at U. Illinois, Volunteered at the Orpheum Children's Science Museum. Talked with adult and children visiting the museum about insect ecology, conservation biology, and the pathway to becoming professional scientists.
April – May 2015, Volunteered at the Gamboa Discovery Elementary School in Gamboa, Panama. Presented a small group discussion about my research and brought in live and preserved research specimens to show the students.
August 2nd, 2013. Hosted the U. Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences' Annual Field Day Outreach Event in Simpson, IL. Several speakers, local landowners, National Forest officials, State Park officials, and members of the public were invited to share in an afternoon of seminars and open discussion on issues ranging from sustainable landscaping to endangered species management.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
January 2019 – Present, Society for Neuroscience, Annual Student Member
January 2019 – Present, American Society of Naturalists, Annual Student Member
December 2018 – Present, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Subscribing Member
December 2018 – Present, American Genetics Association, Annual Student Member
July 2018 – Present, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Student Member
June 2018 – Present, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Student Member
June 2018 – Present, Entomological Society of America, Annual Student Member
January 2018 – Present, Society for Student of Evolution, Annual Student Member
January 2018 – Present, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Annual Student Member
October 2017 – Present, American Physiological Society, Annual Student Member
April 2017 – Present, Animal Behavior Society, Annual Student Member
March 2017 – Present, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, Annual Associate Student Member
October 2016 – Present, The Southern Lepidopterists’ Society, Annual Student Member
September 2016 - Present, American Institutes of Biological Sciences, Annual Individual Student Member
September 2015 – Present, Ecological Society of America, Annual Student Member
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
National Center for Genome Analysis Support Spring 2018 Workshop on de novo Transcriptome Assembly. April 30 – May 1st, 2018. Hosted at Indiana University w/ partial travel funding awarded.
National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative Summer Course on Interdisciplinary Computational Neuroscience: Models and Neurobiology. 19 – 30 June, 2017. Hosted at the University of Missouri – Columbia and all expenses paid by NIH.
Workshop on Genomics. 8 – 21 January, 2017. Intensive two-week course in bioinformatic applications and many topics involving genomics; hosted by international faculty directors of Evomics.org in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.
Workshop on Bat-Moth Interactions (Bombycoidea Workshop). 1 – 14 August, 2016. Held in conjunction by the Kawahara lab at the University of Florida and the Barber lab at Boise State University at the Wildsumaco Biological Station in Napo, Ecuador.
UCLA/La Kretz Workshop in Conservation Genomics. 22 – 27 March, 2016. Held by UCLA and the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science.
Introduction to Linux and Biocluster. September 2015. Held by HPCBio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
RNA-Seq Analysis with Biocluster and R. September – November 2015. Held by HPCBio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PERTINENT SKILLS
Expertise in comparative evolutionary animal physiology and neuroscience
Shell scripting, Python, Perl, R
High-performance supercomputing & practical bioinformatics
Transcriptome assembly, annotation, differential expression analysis, and best-practices
Extensive laboratory experience in DNA, RNA, and protein extraction, sample preparation, molecular sequencing, Gene Ontology and KEGG pathway analysis, and mass spectrometric validation
UNIX navigation & data curation
Expertise in comparative & evolutionary animal physiology and neuroscience
Ecological niche modeling (QGIS, ArcGIS, and ArcMap)
Agent-based ecological modeling (NetLogo)
Neural network modeling language (NEURON)
Insect ID to family
Photography
Microsoft’s Office Suite
iOS Swift programming language & XCode
Extensive field research experience in eastern U.S. hardwood, southeastern Pine forests, and Central American tropical forests
Conversationally fluent in Spanish