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Presentations
- Oral presentation at 2013 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, March 2013; title “The Volunteer Experience: Total Immersion”
- Poster presentation at Pan-African Ornithological Congress, October 2012; title “Investigation of lead and cadmium levels in the blood of adult African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) in the Western Cape, South Africa”
- Oral presentation at 9thAnnual Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference Conference, March 2012; title “Investigation of heavy metals, pesticides, and organochlorines in the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus)”
- Presented a poster at 35thAnnual Waterbird Society Meeting, November 2011; title “Investigation of levels of environmental contamination in the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus)”
Publications
- I co-authored an article on the Value of Play for older Americans with my boss, Fran P. Mainella, 16th Director of the National Park Service. The article was published in LIFE’s Vintage Newsmagazine (May 2012).
- On behalf of Mainella, I wrote a trip summary which appeared in the 2011 Fall/Winter newsletter of the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration, a professional society publication. The full newsletter can be found here.