Brittany Velting
Sault Ste. Marie
Summary
Motivated, conservational, soon-to-be graduate at LSSU, with strong skills in habitat classifications, species identification, sampling protocols, and general environmental ecology. Experienced in data collection, data analysis, GIS mapping, and microscopy.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Clerk
Arfstrom Pharmacy
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
09.2025 - Current
- Completed high customer satisfaction via professionalism, cleanliness, and quickly answering inquires.
- Managed incoming calls professionally, directing callers to appropriate personnel and/or taking detailed messages when necessary.
- Collaborated with pharmacists to verify prescription orders for accuracy and compliance.
- Reduced errors in data entry by carefully inputting information into computer systems with attention to detail.
Intern
LSSU Hatchery
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
08.2025 - 12.2025
- Calculated and measured daily feeding requirements.
- Gained valuable experience while working within a specific industry, applying learned concepts directly into work situations.
- Routinely sampled salmon populations to preform length and weight measurements
- Monitored water quality and temperature, maintaining optimal conditions for fish development.
- Supported team in egg take and incubation processes, learning best practices for hatchery management.
Cook
Wicked Sisters Tavern
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
06.2022 - 09.2025
- Preformed well in a variety of work conditions ranging from 40-98 degrees, while working up to 14hr shifts in a high stress environment.
- Carried up to 80lbs frequently to organize stock items.
- Ensured compliance with food safety regulations and sanitation.
- Repetitively prepared menu items to customer satisfaction.
- Trained new staff members to efficiently follow safety regulations.
Invasive Species Technician
Bay Mills Biology
Brimley, MI
05.2024 - 09.2024
- Collaborated with superivors to determine daily partnered tasks
- Identified terrestrial invasive species in the field in Bay Mills and Brimley, Michigan, including garlic mustard, spotted knapweed, purple loostrife, scotch pine, HWA, and eurasian watermilfoil.
- Participated in hand pulling eradication methods for said invasive species.
- Provided aid to wetland monitering deparments, and was able to frequently assist in stream and wetland sampling techniques.
- Held a frequent public boat wash event for locals in which educational outreach oppertunities were taken.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Conservation Biology And Freshwater Sciences
Lake Superior State University
Sault Ste. Marie, MI05-2026
Skills
- Communication: to maximize both customer and supervisor satisfaction
- Ability to work independently, in collaborative settings, or with the generable public
- Clerical duties: telephone etiquette, documentation using multiple computer systems, organization, and cash handling
- Species identification
- Pedology and geologic processes
- Efficient and quick learner
- Detail orientated
- Highly motivation
Accomplishments
- Preformed undergraduate conservation research in wetland environments, using microscopy and GIS, to determine negative chemical factors in local wild rice declines.
- Successfully completed an in-depth hypothetical wetland restoration plan for a present, local, scenario.
- Complied other functional skills, including but not limited to: freshwater seining, forestry ID, pedology and mineral ID, vegetative ID, aquatics ID, macroinvertebrate ID and sampling methods, wetland monitoring methods, microsoft and R data analysis techniques, and incredible customer service skills.
Timeline
Clerk
Arfstrom Pharmacy
09.2025 - Current
Intern
LSSU Hatchery
08.2025 - 12.2025
Invasive Species Technician
Bay Mills Biology
05.2024 - 09.2024
Cook
Wicked Sisters Tavern
06.2022 - 09.2025
Bachelor of Science - Conservation Biology And Freshwater Sciences
Lake Superior State University