Miranda Krauss

Created unique and age appropriate stretching and strength sequences to promote health and wellness for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

• Implemented reading lessons to individuals and small groups of students that were performing below grade level.

• Established clear objectives for all lessons, units and projects and communicated these objectives to students.

• Arranged classroom and lessons to provide opportunities for students to observe, question and investigate new concepts.

• Diversified teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.

• Managed classroom environment, helping students learn in absence of regular teachers.

• Population monitoring of Pacific Tailed frogs, Steelhead trout, Spotted owls, and Black bears to research the effects of forest practices on resident wildlife.

• Researched habitat differentiation and resource use among different age classes of post metamorphic Foothill Yellow Legged frogs (Rana boylii) on Red Bank Creek, Tehama County.

• Visual encounter surveys of perennial creeks and reservoirs for the California Red Legged frog
• Surveys were conducted day and night during the breeding season according to California Fish and Game survey protocol.

• Surveyed bodies of water in Lassen National Park for Cascade frog, trout and fairy shrimp
• If fish were seen or had historically been present a gill net was set
• Avian point count surveys were conducted at dusk and dawn.

• Surveyed breeding sites for the endangered Boreal toad
• Monitored success of egg masses to metamorphosis
• PIT tagged toads and took skin scrapings for Chytridiomycota analysis.

• Investigated habitat use of the Swift fox using radio telemetry in disturbed and undisturbed habitats
• Conducted necropsies on dead foxes to determine cause of death.