We can take it upon ourselves to build an inclusive community for teams to collaborate with and learn from. Internally-driven investment in professional development extends the impact of a team member and takes the weight off the organization’s experts as new users are able to take on more tasks.


A screenshot of the 2022 AFSC Fall Openscapes cohort over zoom.
A screenshot of the 2022 AFSC Fall Openscapes cohort over zoom.

Teaching

Teaching assistant of UW FISH 572: Principles and applications of fisheries-independent surveys.. 2026. N/A.

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Bottom Trawl Survey public data products. 2024. EH Markowitz.

  • Guest lecturer in Dr. Caleb M. Trujillo’s BIS 232 Introduction to Data Visualization Course, University of Washington Bothell
  • Introduced students to open science data products produced for AFSC bottom trawl surveys

Automated Scientific Reporting in R: Basics to Production. 2023. EH Markowitz.

Co-teacher and co-organizer for conference short GitHub course. 2022. 2022 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference.

Co-teacher and Co-organizer. 2021. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

  • Co-host and organize a 5-week entry-level R-Users workshop for 15 coworkers in the AFSC RACE groundfish assessment program. Developed a curriculum, lesson plans, and assignments.
  • Lesson Website

Co-teacher and Co-organizer. 2020. NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Division of Economics and Social Analysis.

  • Co-hosted a Workshop for Social Scientists for over 60 participants from across the country and across centers
  • Lesson Website

ArcGIS Teaching Assistant. 2015. Sustainability Studies Program, Stony Brook University.

  • Introduction to ArcGIS, taught by Professor Maria Brown.
  • Worked with students to develop multi-map projects aimed at answering questions in hydrology, weather, climate change, and marine science for unique final projects in ArcGIS.
  • Provided comments and assessments of presentations, quizzes, and homework assignments.
  • Held office hours and provided computer assistance.



Stony Brook WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) working up some of the day’s data from our mini-study on blue crab temperature-dependent aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.
Stony Brook WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) working up some of the day’s data from our mini-study on blue crab temperature-dependent aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.

Outreach

Guest scientist. 2024. EH Markowitz.

  • Stony Brook University’s Society for Women in Marine Science SWMSpiration Series
  • Discussed career path and insights from time at alma mater.

What ecosystem studies mean for your dinner plate: NOAA Alaska Bottom Trawl Fisheries Survey. 2024. EH Markowitz.

  • Mad Science Improv — Bandit Improv Comedy Theater
  • Introduced audiance to the AFSC’s Groundfish Assessment program’s fisheries-independant bottom trawl surveys and how this work is used in fisheries management. Presented 8 minute talk and an improv team performed skits based on what they learned from the presentation.
  • Links: Theatre information

What does a Fisheries Researcher Do?. 2022. Markowitz, EH.

Counting Fish in Alaska!. 2021. Diversity in STEM - Let’s Talk Science Symposium.

  • Presented to students in grades 3-8 from across Montreal, Quebec, Canada about NOAA Fisheries groundfish surveys in Alaska.

Skype and Scientist Visiting Scientist. 2018 - Present. Remote.

  • 30+ schools across the country K-12

Science Festival Booth Presenter. 2018. Brennan, N, C Neidig, P Caldentey, EH Markowitz, K Leber.

  • Used the Science on Sphere (SOS) to share relationships between temperature, climate change, and changes in fish distributions.

Presenter. 2018. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Expert is in Program.

  • Hosted a table in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum Ocean Hall and engage with patrons about fisheries management.

WISE Program Assisting Researcher. 2016 - 2017. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.

  • Stony Brook WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) working up some of the day’s data from our mini-study on blue crab temperature-dependent aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.

Plastic Pollution Outreach Program Organizer. 2014. Coastal Steward Long Island.

  • Wrote, designed, and ran an outreach initiative teaching local elementary and middle school students about the global marine plastic pollution problem with Coastal Steward



Visiting scientist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Expert Is In Program. There, we talked about about how fish are caught in recreational and commercial fisheries, fishing gear, and sustainable seafood.
Visiting scientist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Expert Is In Program. There, we talked about about how fish are caught in recreational and commercial fisheries, fishing gear, and sustainable seafood.

Mentoring

Mentor. 2024. The William M. Lapenta - NOAA Student Internship Program.

  • Mentored Student building R Shiny application to show survey progress and bottom temperatures from bottom trawl surveys. Student also joined survey team on the 2024 eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey.
  • Links: Link

Capstone Co-mentor. 2020 - 2021. University of Washington School on the Environment Undergraduate Capstone Program.

  • Mentored student investigating the purple-orange sea star and bivalve climate change-driven distribution changes in Alaska’s eastern Bering Sea.

High School STEM Competition Mentor and Volunteer. 2019 - 2020. Blacks in Government.

  • Mentor to student participant and assisted with marketing for the NOAA Chapter High School STEM Competition.

Graduate Peer Mentor. 2017. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.

  • Helped troubleshoot seabird telemetry home range metrics and marine mammal bycatch modeling

High School Student Mentor. 2016. Dr. Janet Nye, Quantitative Fisheries Ecology Laboratory, Stony Brook University.

  • Mentored high school student assisting on assessment of Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) winter survival on the NE US shelf using MATLAB



Talking to students at the Wenonah elementary school science fair about some fish most people never get to see.
Talking to students at the Wenonah elementary school science fair about some fish most people never get to see.

Open Science

National Openscapes Mentor Group for NOAA Fisheries. 2023 - Present. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Co-organizer and co-host for the Fall 2022 AFSC Openscapes Workshop. 2022. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Co-organizer and co-host for the Winter 2022 AFSC Openscapes Workshop. 2022. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Co-organizer of the NMFS-wide R Users Group and GitHub Organization. 2021 - Present. NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center.


 

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