Aubrey Hahesy

• Delivered meals to residents, fostering positive interactions and enhancing dining experience.
• Assisted in meal preparation and presentation, ensuring compliance with dietary guidelines.
• Maintained cleanliness of kitchen and dining areas, adhering to safety standards and regulations.
• Supported dietary staff with inventory management, restocking supplies regularly.

Lab Work & Field Work:

• Collected shovelnose sturgeon larval drift samples from the DSM, Cedar, and IA rovers, processed field samples (separating eggs, larval, and invertebrates), and entered/organized field data for analysis.

Lab Work:

• (2021) Collect and process water samples, maintain and calibrate lab equipment, clean sample bottles, interpret field work data in lab data, and sort abstracts and research articles.
• (2024) Interpret and record data collected from field surveys, using ArcGIS Pro for urban ecosystem mapping (recording land use, agricultural use, and tree cover)

Field Work:

• (2021) Collect water samples, run/set up equipment that collects water samples, gather data from equipment, drive to collect water samples, pulls weeds and manage invasive species, collect data on buffer sites, and perform other management tasks.
• (2024) Surveying work of Des Moines area (included tree cover, veg assessment, land use, and species use); conducted invasive species removal, and vegetation assessments/surveys of surrounding rural counties

Grading Specialist:

• Collect and grade various tree species on assembly line and send/collect to cold storage and prepared orders to be sent to buyers.

Planting Specialist:

• Planted various tree species and maintained growing conditions