Curriculum Vitae

Executive resume

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Curriculum Vitae

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Grants & Fundraising

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I have contributed to $3,129.887.33 of successful grants and fundraising. I have been PI or co-PI on $2,867,707.33 of successful grants and contributed to $1,275,668 in grants issued to organizations to which I contributed grant writing support or no PI or co-PIs were indicated, along with $144,600 in funds raised by students and mentees. See CV for details.

Awards & Honors

2022    Outstanding Associate Editor Award. Natural Sciences Education peer-reviewed journal, Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies. Selected by editorial board.

2021    Invited. Steering Committee Member. NSF Enhancing Undergraduate Biology Education through Science Communication Research Coordination Network (RCN).

2021    Invited. People’s Choice Judge. Visualizing Science image contest, Canadian Science Publishing, Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada.

2021    Elected appointment. Steering Committee Member. Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research.

2021    Promoting Intellectual Engagement in the First-Year teaching award; blind nomination by students. University of Wyoming.

2021    Professional Mentor, Genetics Society of America’s Early Career Leadership Program. (declined)

2020    Invited appointment. Associate Editor/Subject Editor in Integrative Sciences, Science Communication, and Zoology. FACETS peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Science Publishing, Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Science.

2020    Antell Diversity Award, OWN IT Women in STEM Award. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

2020    Invited member, Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC) Advisory Board. Academic Affairs, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

2020    Lifeology Women in STEAM Biography Series, LifeOmic, Indianapolis, Indiana. Nominated by a grad student, accepted through competitive review process.

2020    Decelerator Residency, The Strange Foundation, New York. Co-PIs: K. Schwarz and E. Cook. Selected through competitive application process.

2020    Outstanding Associate Editor Award, Journal of Natural Sciences Education, Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies.

2020    Official Tour Selection, Colorado Environmental Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capitol, Gutsy Girls Adventure Film Tour, No Man’s Land Film Festival, and Wild and Scenic Film Festival; for Deer 139 film.

2019    Honorable Mention, Education Section Publication of the Year Award, Ecological Society of America. Award received for Januchowski-Hartley, S.R., N. Sopinka, N., B.G. Merkle, C. Lux, A. Zivian, P. Goff, and S. Oester. 2018. Poetry as a creative practice to enhance engagement and learning in conservation science. BioScience. Vol 68(10): biy105. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy105.

2019    Invited appointment. Associate Editor. Natural Sciences Education. A peer-reviewed journal published by the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies and American Society of Agronomy.

2019    Shortlisted (1 of 5 teams, out of 220 submissions). Art in Public Buildings Project for University of Wyoming Science Initiative new research facility. Potential contract: $90,000.00. Co-PIs: B. Gellis and M. Thompson Stanton.

2019    Best Atlas Award, 40th Annual Map Competition, Cartography and Geographic Information Society; Best in Show Award, 40th Annual Map Competition, Cartography and Geographic Information Society; Wildlife Publication Award for an Edited Book, The Wildlife Society; Finalist, High Plains Book Award; for Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates.

2019    Official Tour Selection, Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, for Deer 139 film.

2019    Invited/Nominated. Associate Member of Sigma Xi – Research Scholarship Honors Society.

2019    Member of 2019 cohort of Leaving the Light On: A LAMP Educator’s Community (ELC), Science Initiative, University of Wyoming. Selected through competitive application process to participate in inaugural cohort of an extension of the Learning Actively Mentoring Program, an on-going faculty and grad student training program. ELC participants have a responsibility to be a change agent in the continued shift to active-learning, student-centered pedagogies the University of Wyoming.

2018   Invited. Founding section editor. Communicating Science section, The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.

2018   Invited. Founding columnist. Writing Science column, The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.

2018   Invited. Advisory council member. Science Communication Professional Development for Scientists Initiative by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.

2018   Invited. Lead, Training Section. “Strategy Development: Increasing the Impact of Public Engagement Within and Beyond ESA,” Ecological Society of America (4-person committee funded by ESA; I am leading a team of ~10 people to develop a white paper about training for science communication and engagement within ESA.)

2018   Participant. OCEANDOTCOMM professional science communicators training residency, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Participation by application only (42 accepted out of 75 applicants).

2016   University of Wyoming, Alumni Association Graduate Student Award

2016   Creative writing residency at AMK Ranch, University of Wyoming/National Park Service Research Center

2016   Promoting Intellectual Engagement in the First-Year teaching award; blind nomination by students; 170+ nominees, 26 awardees; University of Wyoming

2016   Selected for inclusion in Poems Across the Big Sky (2), a 2016 anthology, ed. Lowell Jager, Many Voices Press; >1,200 submissions, ~250 poems selected.

2016   University of Wyoming Art Museum’s Art-Science Symposium/Initiative planning committee; only student on committee comprised of faculty/staff from numerous UW departments (2015-2016)

2015    Best Environmental Reporting (3rd place) for article “An eel is an eel is an eel, or is it?” Québec Community Newspaper Association (QCNA)

2015    University of Wyoming Art Museum’s Art-Science Symposium/Initiative planning committee; only student on committee comprised of faculty/staff from numerous UW departments (2015-2017)

2015    University of Wyoming MFA in Creative Writing Program (2015-2017); one of ten admitted out of >300 applicants

2014    Best Special Section, 1st place, Québec Community Newspapers Association (QCNA) award for 250th anniversary special edition magazine I edited/coordinated for the Québec Chronicle-Telegraph, North America’s oldest newspaper

2014    Best Community Newspaper Promotion, 1st place, QCNA award for year-long 250th anniversary campaign I coordinated for the Québec Chronicle-Telegraph

2014    National journalism award, Newspapers Canada/Canadian Tire Jumpstart Foundation

2014    Feature photograph on back cover, Montana Outdoors annual photography issue

2013    Best Business Column or Feature, 1st place, QCNA

2013    Best Investigative or In-depth Reporting, 2nd place, QCNA

2013    Best Newspaper Promotion, 2nd place, QCNA

2013    Best Special Section, 3rd place, QCNA

2013    Commissioned photography project. Commissioned by Parks Canada, Prince Albert National Park

2012    Best Newspaper Promotion, 2nd place, QCNA

2012    Best Sports Story, 2nd place, QCNA

2012    Outstanding Photojournalism award, QCNA

2012    Best Sports Photograph, 2nd place, QCNA

2012    Best News Photo, 3rd place, QCNA

2007   Heisey Foundation Scholarship

2007   Montana Baker Grant

2006   ‘Best of the Best’ writing assessment award, University of Montana

2006   Elizabeth Jestrab-Chaffee Scholarship

2006   Montana Baker Grant

2006   Montana Motor Carriers Association Leonard Eckel Memorial Educational Trust Scholarship

2006   University of Montana anonymous donor scholarship

2005   Montana Motor Carriers Association Leonard Eckel Memorial Educational Trust Scholarship

2003   Member, NASA Space Consortium student project; Selected by Dean of Engineering to be a member of a student design team which constructed and carried out experiments whose purpose was to collect data about the feasibility of full-scale near-space experiments. Montana Tech of the University of Montana

2003   1st Place, Front Range Art Association’s Choteau High School Art Award

2003   Anne Wiprud Memorial Scholarship

2003   Choteau Kiwanis Scholarship

2003   Elizabeth Jestrab-Chaffee Scholarship

2003   Montana Baker Grant

2003   Montana Motor Carriers Association Leonard Eckel Memorial Educational Trust Scholarship

2003   Montana Tech of the University of Montana scholarships

2003   3 Rivers Communication Scholarship