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tions,and biological resource inventories. Maintains close ties with California <br /> Natural Diversity Data Base staff. <br /> Pollution Monitoring Studies. Directed field team in collecting plant, soil, <br /> and atmospheric deposition samples for a multiyear study on effects of cooling <br /> tower drift at The Geysers Geothermal Area. Directed sample collection and <br /> data analysis in study of selenium accumulation in plants at Kesterson <br /> Reservoir. <br /> Literature Reviews. Coauthored Sliding Toward Extinction, an assessment of <br /> the status of natural diversity in California for The Nature Conservancy. <br /> Reviewed literature on terrestrial effects of acid deposition in California to <br /> identify research needs for Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Summarized <br /> studies commissioned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern <br /> California Edison Company on effects of instream flow diversions on riparian <br /> vegetation in the Sierra Nevada. <br /> Humboldt State University. Teaching assistant. Prepared and delivered lectures, <br /> collected and interpreted lab materials, and prepared and graded exams for plant <br /> taxonomy classes. Assisted as field guide and discussion leader for alpine ecology <br /> seminar. <br /> SPECIAL TRAINING <br /> American Fisheries Society course: How to Examine Wetlands (U. S. Army Corps of <br /> Engineers Wetland Delineation Methodology and Wetland Evaluation Technique) <br /> Professional Soil Scientists Association of California workshop: Field Identification of <br /> Hydric Soils <br /> PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS <br /> International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). <br /> Member of Species Survival Commission - North American Plant Specialists Group. <br /> California Native Plant Society (CNPS). Member of Rare Plant Scientific Advisory <br /> Committee, IUCN representative, contributor to Inventory of Rare and Endangered <br /> Vascular Plants of California. <br /> Society for Ecological Restoration and Management <br /> Society of Wetland Scientists <br />