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ANDREW CASE

E-mail: case6@canisius.edu   Phone: +44 7904 780279

25 Staverton Road, Oxford, UK OX2 6XL

 

EDUCATION
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK                                            September 2016 – September 2017

MSc in Biodiversity Conservation and Management – In progress

 

Canisius College, Buffalo, NY                                                                 January 2013 – May 2015

Awards/Accomplishments: Dean’s List: Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015; B.S. Animal Behavior Ecology Conservation, Summa Cum Laude

 

WORK EXPERIENCE
Operations Associate II                                                                           August 2015 – May 2016

M&T Bank, Buffalo, NY

My duties include entering data for vehicle loans, opening incoming mail and ensuring all documents are enclosed and correctly filled out, dispersing incoming documents appropriately, and ensuring all faxed documents are correctly filled out.

 

Buffalo Zoo Guest Services Associate                                                   May 2015 – August 2015

Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo, NY

My duties included selling admission, running various rides and stands inside the zoo, checking tickets at the gate to ensure all visitors have paid, and assisting visitors with complaints.

 

Graduate Admissions Assistant                                                      September 2013 – April 2015

Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

I was an assistant to the secretaries in the graduate admissions office. My duties included organizing the storage rooms, filing, taking inventory, delivering documents to other offices on campus, and greeting visitors and directing them to their destinations.

 

Internship at Buffalo Zoo                                                                            May 2014 – July 2014

Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo, NY

My duties included preparing diets for the Gorillas, Meerkats, Snow Monkeys, Ring-Tailed Lemurs, and Sulawesi Macaques. I was also responsible for cleaning the Gorillas holding pens, feeding the various primates and creating enrichment for all the above mentioned animals.

 

Field Experience
Kangaroo GPS Monitoring Fieldwork                                                                      August 2014

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

I was invited to work with Dr. Scott Burnett on the campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, in order to tranquilize Kangaroos and place GPS collars on them so that his team could monitor their movement to assess population declines.

 

Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology Course                                                           September 2014

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

For this course my classmates and I performed fieldwork on the campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. We placed Elliott traps, dug pitfalls and placed funnel traps in locations representing three habitat types. Traps were checked twice daily and we recorded both those species that were caught and various characteristics of individuals caught.

 

Coastal and Marine Ecology Course                                                                    September 2014

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

For this course my classmates and I participated in field surveys on Fraser Island, largely driving along the coasts and counting the numbers of various species of birds. We also conducted fieldwork on local beaches near USC measuring the presence of various species as well as their abundance.

 

References
Patricia Tomasello

Owner and operator of East Otto Country Kennels

Phone: 716-592-4011

 

Dr. Christy Hoffman

Assistant Professor

Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

Canisius College

Buffalo, NY 14208

Phone: 716-888-2775

 

Pam Fears

Office of Graduate Admissions

Canisius College, 2001 Main Street

Buffalo, NY 14208

Phone: 716-883-7000