Cooper McMahon

Coordinated meetings between guests and animal ambassadors, to facilitate positive and rewarding encounters for both the guests and animals. Also share knowledge on wildlife and zoo history, to help spread awareness of conservation.

• Was a lab supervisor, managing a lab team and caring for a colony of research organisms

• Took a marine biology course that involved field work including conch surveys, taking eDNA samples of sea urchins and marine mammals, and identifying marine organisms.

• 8 week long summer intership learning about local fisheries and learning fish culture and husbandrey. Did a research project on olfactory capabilities in cisco. Got field work expeiernce pulling telemetry recievers used for sturgeon.

• Working with a team as a part of a painting crew over the summer with Binghamton Unviersity