Heather Alice Cyr

• Aid cultivation from seed to finish (harvest, seed setting, grading, sorting).
• Support field activities and production goals
• Monitor health and viability of stocks

• Empowered students with behavioral and life challenges to continue education at-home or in clinical setting.
• Organized and created supplemental material and lessons as needed to aid comprehension needs tailored to student.
• Effectively demonstrate strong leadership skills as mentor, promoting confidence and success in education.
• Establish safe and supportive learning for a diverse demographic of students.
• Organize continuous flux of referrals and schoolwork documentation.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively.
• Proven ability to be adaptable in new and challenging situations.
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.

• Ensured food safety as HACCP certified supervisor by establishing and implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and documentation.
• Achieved company sales and output objectives, preparing between 30,000 to 40,000 oysters for sale per week by hand.
• Aid cultivation from seed to finish (harvest, seed setting, grading, sorting).
• Active participant in all field activities throughout year.

• Trained and certified by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to perform detailed USCG safety inspections.
• Responsible for on-board biological sampling (otolith, scale, tissue).
• Reported fishing trip data regarding vessel such as fishing gears used and species caught/discarded.
• Supported descriptive documentation of incidental takes of protected species via photography, sampling, and key notations.

• Quantified impact of long-line fisheries on deep-sea sponges in NE Atlantic Azores using by-catch records and 15 hours of underwater transect footage.
• Categorized and identified Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) sponge species, habitat features, and fisheries gear to assess in-situ damages.
• Created visual aids using ArcGIS, analysis with R, Ocean Floor Observer Protocol (OFOP), and ImageJ.
• Communicated works and findings in thesis and scientific presentation.

• Assisted in sorting and quantification of marine micro-plastics collected from tidal sediment samples of remote beaches in Azores to support LIXAZ project.

• Managed three to five laboratories on satellite college campus, organizing lab environment and experimental set-up.
• Aided supervisor in setting up new laboratory space and troubleshooting equipment.
• Coordinated materials and inventory.
• Prepared solutions and media in sterile work environment.
• Calibrated scientific instruments to improve performance.

Publication: Chappell, P.D. Vedamati, J., Selph, K. E., Cyr, H.A., Jenkins, B.D., Landry, M.R. and Moffett, J.W. (2016) “Preferential depletion of zinc within Costa Rica Upwelling Dome creates
conditions for zinc co-limitation of primary production.” J.Plankton Res. 38 (2): 244-255.

• Observed phytoplankton assemblages in response to micronutrient availability and their regime shifts within Costa Rica Dome (CRD).
• Lived at sea for approximately one month while processing filters from water samples and incubations.
• Safeguarded sample integrity (RNA) for research community, monitoring environmental condition throughout cruise for later land-based analysis.
• Aided in experimental setup and sampling.
• Co-authored study's final publication in Journal of Plankton Research.
• Worked independently and collaboratively.