Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior R Developer

Voltron Data

Nov 2021 – Present
Developed and maintained R language bindings for the Apache Arrow project.
 
 
 
 
 

Physical Scientist

Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021
Developed data access tools for the Argo floats program and the Barrow Strait Real Time Observatory.
 
 
 
 
 

Intern, ggplot2

RStudio, Inc.

May 2019 – Jul 2019
Worked with Hadley Wickham to maintain and develop new features for the popular R plotting framework ggplot2.
 
 
 
 
 

Geoscience Interpreter

Adventure Canada

May 2016 – Jun 2016
Acted as a geoscience interpreter on the Adventure Canada Mighty St. Lawrence expedition from Québec City, Québec to St. John’s. Newfoundland.
 
 
 
 
 

Project Manager

Ian Spooner, P.Geo.

Dec 2015 – Dec 2016 Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Managed applied lakes consulting and research under Dr. Ian Spooner, P.Geo.
 
 
 
 
 

Project Coordinator

GeoGrid Environmental Inc

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 Calgary, Alberta
On-site coordinator for environmental remediation and emergency spill response in the upstream oil and gas industry.

Publications

(2021). argodata: An R interface to oceanographic data from the International Argo Program. Journal of Open Source Software.

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(2021). Application of the paleolimnological method to assess metal contaminant distribution (As, Cu, Pb, Zn) in pulp mill stabilization basin sediments, Nova Scotia, Canada. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

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(2021). Evaluating the multidecadal response of historic seawater incursion events and salinity-induced meromixis at Laytons Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lake and Reservoir Management.

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(2021). Relative importance of organic- and iron-based colloids in six Nova Scotian lakes. npj Clean Water.

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(2021). Chemical recovery and browning of Nova Scotia surface waters in response to declining acid deposition. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

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(2020). Comparing the Predictive Performance, Interpretability, and Accessibility of Machine Learning and Physically Based Models for Water Treatment. ACS ES&T Engineering.

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(2020). The distribution and transport of lead over two centuries as recorded by lake sediments from northeastern North America. Science of The Total Environment.

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(2020). Evaluating the performance of calculated elemental measures in sediment archives. Journal of Paleolimnology.

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(2020). Large-Scale Rock Slope Deformation from the Tablelands and Lookout Hills of Western Newfoundland, Canada. Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada.

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(2019). Evaluating the utility of elemental measurements obtained from factory-calibrated field-portable X-Ray fluorescence units for aquatic sediments. Environmental Pollution.

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(2018). Anthropogenic activity in the Halifax region, Nova Scotia, Canada, as recorded by bulk geochemistry of lake sediments. Lake and Reservoir Management.

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(2018). Using a linked table-based structure to encode self-describing multiparameter spatiotemporal data. FACETS.

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(2017). Late Holocene Records of Changing Moisture Regime from Wetlands in Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for Wetland Conservation and Restoration. Northeastern Naturalist.

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(2017). A paleolimnological archive of metal sequestration and release in the Cumberland Basin Marshes, Atlantic Canada. FACETS.

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(2017). Modeling the effect of convex upward sediment deformation and horizontal core sectioning on paleolimnological data. Journal of Paleolimnology.

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(2016). A geochemical perspective on the impact of development at Alta Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology.

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Presentations

(2020). Hydrologic assessment of a small maritime hydrometric monitoring network using a combined inductive-deductive process-informed catchment classification system. European Geosciences Union.

(2020). The Strativerse: an interactive collection of time-stratigraphic records of environmental change. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium.

Project Slides

(2020). A paleolimnological assessment of factors affecting metal deposition and productivity in upland hydroelectric reservoirs, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Conference For Fisheries Research-Society of Canadian Limnologists Joint Meeting.

(2020). Best practices for programming with ggplot2. RStudio Conference.

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(2020). Classifying the Hydrologic Regime of Nova Scotia Watersheds and Analysis of the Current Hydrometric Monitoring Network. Canadian Water Resources Association Midterm Workshop - Beyond the Banks: An Interdisciplinary Review of Water Management in Atlantic Canada.

(2019). Establishing the timing of stable Pb deposition in Maritime-Canadian Lakes. North American Lake Management Society International Symposium.

(2019). Evaluating the biological response of drinking water reservoirs to lake recovery using invertebrate abundance and environmental DNA. North American Lake Management Society International Symposium.

(2019). Land-use controls on spatiotemporal trace metal accumulation in Maritime Canadian lakes. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium.

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(2018). Evaluating long-term reservoir water quality trends using sediment chemistry and historical invertebrate abundance at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Atlantic Water and Wastewater Association Annual Conference.

(2018). Keeping data in context: using metadata-friendly, computer-readable storage formats for research data. Canadian/American Quaternary Association Joint Meeting.

(2018). Using Lake Sediment to predict future treatment challenges: A case study from Halifax, Nova Scotia. American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition.

(2018). Application of the paleolimnological method in the environmental assessment of effluent-influenced freshwater sediment: an example from northern Nova Scotia. Science Atlantic: Environment.

(2018). Evaluating the utility of field-portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) for the rapid measurement of landscape change proxies. Geological Society of America Northeast Section.

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(2018). Impact of historical logging and hydroelectric development on an upland river system, Nova Scotia, Canada: a paleolimnological perspective. Geological Society of America Northeast Section.

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(2018). Application of the paleolimnological method in the environmental assessment of effluent-influenced freshwater sediment: an example from northern Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium.

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(2018). Environmental data for future generations: storage formats for multi-parameter, spatiotemporal data. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium.

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(2017). A paleolimnological approach to understanding metal retention and mobility associated with salt-water inundation at Laytons Lake, Nova Scotia.. Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference.

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(2017). Spatiotemporal assessment of metal concentrations of pre-effluent estuarine sediments in a freshwater kraft pulp mill taillings pond in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, using paleolimnological methods. Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference.

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(2017). Using Lake Sediment to predict future treatment challenges: A case study from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Water and Wastewater Association Annual Conference.

(2017). A unified stable Pb sediment chronology for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ontario-Québec Paleolimnology Symposium.

(2016). Introductory GIS Workshops Using Open-Source GIS Tools. Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers.

Project

(2016). Flexible, platform-independent, open-source data structures and conversion mechanisms for paleolimnological data. Ontario-Québec Paleolimnology Symposium.

(2016). Preliminary results and experimental design for a bulk geochemical assessment of sediment from drinking water reservoirs in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ontario-Québec Paleolimnology Symposium.

(2016). Paleolimnology and long-term perspectives on water quality at Alta Lake, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada: implications for management. Geological Socity of America Northeast Sectional Meeting.

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(2016). Using paleolimnological techniques and XRF to investigate metal sequestration, mobility, and bioavailability in shallow lakes: case studies from Nova Scotia, Canada. Geological Socity of America Northeast Sectional Meeting.

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(2015). Decoupling natural and anthropogenic change at Alta Lake, Whistler, British Columbia: Implications for management. Canadian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting.

(2015). Decoupling natural and anthropogenic change at Alta Lake, Whistler, British Columbia: Implications for management. Ontario-Québec Paleolimnology Symposium.

(2015). A 10 000 year record of environmental change at Long Lake, Cumberland Marshes, Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border region, Canada. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium.

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(2012). Remediation of Salt-Impacted Soils Using Automated Conductivity Monitoring, Leachate Collection, Irrigation, and Injection: Alternative Methods for In-Situ Remediation. Remediation Technologies Symposium.

(2011). Using Paleolimnological Methods to Track Late-Holocene Environmental Change at Long Lake, New Brunswick-Nova Scotia Border Region, Canada. Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference.

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Theses

(2020). Using High-Throughput Paleolimnological Methods to Evaluate the Distribution and Transport of Lead in Northeastern North America. Ph.D. Thesis (Dalhousie University).

(2015). A 500-year applied paleolimnological assessment of environmental change at Alta Lake, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. M.Sc. Thesis (Acadia University).

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(2011). Using paleolimnological methods to track late Holocene environmental change at Long Lake, New Brunswick - Nova Scotia Border Region, Canada. B.Sc.H. Thesis (Acadia University).

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