MEDIA LINKS

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• 2024  Dogs and National Parks:  StoryMap, Podcast, Interview

• 2021   Latinx / national parks:  video 1, video 2, video 3

• 2021   Behind the Biography podcast (Envision).

• 2020  NPCA Park Talks: Climate change impacts to parks.

• 2020  TN Conservationist Magazine coverage of NPCA camera trapping.

• 2019  Camera Trapping:  Stones River National Battlefield

• 2018  GMU Spirit Magazine.  Alumni news.

• 2018  The legacy of Sudan and the fate of the last Northern white rhinoceros

• 2017  GMU College of Science Annual Report.

• 2017  Why science matters to national parks.  NPCA Blog post.

• 2017  GMU College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award

• Study Abroad students published by African Wildlife Foundation

• GMU Mason Broadside Magazine, coverage of Kenya program

• Amazon GIS Program​

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AWARDS / FUNDING
 

• NPCA via Development Department (various grant awards as collaborator)​

• NPCA People's Choice Award

• GMU College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award

• The Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, graduate research award

• Francis D. Heliotis Research Award (GMU)

• The Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award, Washington DC

• MyCOE/SERVIR Biodiversity Initiative Award

• ​Outstanding Senior Award, Texas A&M, Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences

• Student Conservation Association (SCA); CCDP (Conservation Career Development) Fellow.

• The African Wildlife Foundation, research grant

• American Association of Geographers, SERVIR award

• The Smithsonian Latino Center, research grant (Kenya program)

• The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, research grant

• The Nature Conservancy, research grant

• The World Wildlife Fund, research grant

• The National Geographic Society, research grant

• Blue Moon Fund, research grant

• West Wind Foundation, research grant

• Overbrook Foundation, research grant

• The Winslow Foundation, research grant

• US Department of State, exhibit support

• W. Alton Jones Foundation, research grant

• Private gift donations, research

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ACADEMIC HONORS

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• Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Science, George Mason University

• Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE); Dissertation Scholarship

• Smithsonian Latino Center Research Award

• American Association of Geographers:  MyCOE/SERVIR Biodiversity Initiative, Africa

• Francis D. Heliotis Memorial Graduate Research Award

• Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award, Cosmos Club

• Smithsonian Doctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science:  GMU

• Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Scholarship

• Outstanding Senior Award, Texas A&M University (highest Department award)

• National Hispanic Scholarship Fund recipient

• Conservation Career Development Fellow, Student Conservation Association (SCA)

• Rancho del Cielo, Gorgas Science Foundation scholarship

• Excellence award, Rancho del Cielo Biological Station (University of Texas)

• Excellence award, Geosciences, University of Texas

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Though summarized, this site represents the majority of overlap in media, award, and funding.  Please contact me for a detailed CV.  

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