Jose Valdez

-Synthesized and integrated current and previous research findings to provide key insights and strategic recommendations -Developed and analyzed quantitative and qualitative research studies -Edited technical and scientific manuscripts -Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to successfully publish in well-established scientific journals

-Provide written and live lessons in Statistics (AP/College Intro, College Advanced, Biological, Business), Probability, Advanced College Biology, Microsoft Excel, and Psychology -Address individual needs and academic difficulties by devising study and teaching techniques for high school and university students

-Conducted statistical analysis and ecological models in R -Wrote and edited scientific manuscripts for publication -Assisted with teaching duties

-Worked as manager for the world´s largest mining company on a compensatory habitat project -Designed and collected environmental quality and ecological surveys -Statistically analyzed and modeled data to help guide the design and creation of future habitat offsets for an endangered amphibian -Wrote environmental reports for industrial partners -Trained and managed research teams -Implanted thousands of tadpoles with visible implant elastomer (VIE) tags

-Taught two hour courses in STAT1070-Statistics for the Sciences -Marked and assessed assignments -Helped students during consultation times

Click to edit position descriptionSupervisor: Dr. Raydora Drummer Francis, Director of Multicultural Affairs -Coordinated cultural learning activities for the SUNY-ESF community -Proposed topics and prepared for upcoming seminars -Designed and developed posters and advertisements -Established contact, scheduled, and introduced keynote speakers -Visited high school to encourage underrepresented students to attend college

-Clarified lecture materials from organic chemistry and statistics -Instructed individuals and groups of university students -Helped students gain self-confidence and become independent learners -Formulated methods for students to grasp specific subject matters

-Located foraging sites of focal bird species -Conducted vegetative structure surveys -Estimated microhabitat use and availability -Conducted arthropod surveys, identifying to order and/or family -Estimated mammal abundance by walking transects and identifying terrestrial and arboreal mammals

Supervisor: Sandra Bonanno -Monitored daily flight activities from two colonies of the endangered bog buckmoth -Organized, processed, and entered data during monitoring

Supervisor: Dr. Igor Berkunsky -Monitored nests and recorded behavior of critically endangered blue-throated macaws -Hand-fed, measured, and weighed blue-throated macaw chicks -Built naturally camouflaged bird hides

-Addressed the individual needs and academic difficulties by devising study and teaching techniques for university students -Tutored in biology, chemistry, statistics, psychology, and modern languages -Compiled over one hundred hours of group and individual tutoring each semester -Received tutoring certification and tutoring award -Proctored final exams in statistics and calculus

Supervisor: Dr. Leigh Bacher, Professor of Psychology -Assisted in improving efficiency and effectiveness of data collection -Strengthened coding schematics -Input information and analyzed behavioral and blink data from video -Conducted blink marking analysis on infants

Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Burch, Professor of Psychology -Collected and entered behavioral statistics -Presented at national and international conferences -Designed questionnaires to improve data collection -Developed new ideas for future research projects