In 2019, she graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a double major in Environmental Studies and Economics. Her family later moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she spent her free time hiking in the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains. Jaclyn was born in Northern California and spent her early childhood exploring the redwood coast region. Jaclyn Sherman, River Monitoring Coordinator (2019/20) In her free time, you can catch Mary dancing, reading, baking, and doing puzzles. Mary is eager to learn more about community-based management practices, and feels she found the right place at SYRCL, an organization that is community founded and focused. Mary worked as a research assistant in range ecology and forest ecology, and most recently, as a land steward an organization that conserves open spaces. In college, she studied land management techniques, completing a major in Conservation and Resource Studies and a minor in Forestry from UC Berkeley. Mary grew up near Sacramento, CA, spending summer vacations fostering a love for California’s many diverse landscapes. Mary McDonnell, Restoration Coordinator (2019/20) Outside of work, she can often be found cooking, crafting, or looking for frogs or other herps outside.Ģ019-2020 From left: Shannon Hedge, Outreach & Education Coordinator, Mary McDonnell, Restoration Coordinator and Jaclyn Sherman, River Monitoring Coordinator She is excited to combine her passions of environmental conservation and interacting directly with the community at SYRCL. She found her true love of education and outreach while in graduate school at Humboldt State University as a teaching associate and volunteer coordinator for the citizen science program FrogWatch. She obtained a bachelors degree in Evolution and Ecology at The Ohio State University and helped work in diversity programming as an ambassador of the multicultural center. Shannon grew up in the suburbs around Houston, TX where she spent most days outside exploring anywhere where there was water. Shannon Hedge, AmeriCorps Outreach & Education Coordinator (2020//20) In his free time, Kyle enjoys cooking, hiking, skiing, and playing board games with friends. Kyle is excited to join our community organization focused on protection of the Yuba River watershed. During his time there, he also volunteered to reduce campus food waste and in his final year served as a coordinator for the 50 th Annual Whole Earth Festival in 2019.Īfter graduating, Kyle moved to Sacramento, CA to work in stormwater permitting at the State Water Resources Control Board and volunteered at Effie Yeaw Nature Center helping to take care of the resident raptors and herps. He moved to Davis for his undergraduate studies at UC Davis where he studied Environmental Science & Management and had a plethora of experiences in different research labs ranging from soil science, gut microbiota, environmental toxicity, to white abalone. Kyle grew up in the suburbs of Ventura County, CA. Kyle NcNeil, AmeriCorps River Monitoring Coordinator (2020/21) When not serving the Sierra, Aliya can be found gardening, playing her fiddle or banjo, baking bread, painting, tinkering with code projects, and dreaming of building a cobb house. She fell in love with botany while completing a field research project on serpentine endemics in Big Sur, and she has since worked as a botanical technician and scientific communicator at Joshua Tree National Park and for the BLM throughout the sage steppe of eastern Oregon.Īliya is delighted to be back in Nevada County working in the Yuba watershed with SYRCL, an organization that she has long admired. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the UC Santa Cruz, where she studied coevolution and mutualism between insects and plants in the John Thompson Laboratory. From left: Aliya Ingersoll, Restoration Coordinator, Kyle McNeil, River Monitoring Coordinator, and Shannon Hedge, Outreach & Education CoordinatorĪliya Ingersoll, AmeriCorps Restoration Coordinator (2020/21)Īliya grew up in Nevada City, CA and spent her childhood backpacking with her family in the Sierra, swimming in the Yuba, and occasionally ditching class to go backcountry skiing with her dad after a good snowstorm.
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