austin herrick

* Taught classes of 5-15 students on environmental and conservation topics. * Responsible for assisting in non-class related environmental programming (conservation projects, evening programs)

* Collected and cleaned hourly university utility data, improving engineers’ ability to analyze electricity usage across campus * Coordinated outreach and marketing to organize the first in a series of Hackathon events, where students were placed into teams and challenged to analyze university electricity usage

* Directed planning and implementation of all scheduling, operations, and curriculum (including classes, conservation, and experiments) for the summer camp program at the Ecology Center, serving approximately 550 scouts over a 6 week period. * Drafted closing reports and written curriculum for the use for national inspections, council oversight, and future staff * Trained and collaborated with Ecology Conservation Instructors throughout the winter and spring months to prepare them with the necessary skills, knowledge, and curriculum for their positions

* Analyzed multi-year utility and buildings data for the entire university property in order to design a large-scale energy challenge for teams of students, which includes a Hackathon and will culminate in a multi-month competition this fall * Coordinated outreach between university engineers, information specialists, faculty researchers, student government, and interested student groups

* Created a calculator tool to preform cost-benefit analysis and compare savings across buildings for energy efficiency upgrades to campus properties, identifying savings of up to $2,000,000 over a 5 year period * Analyzed data for the university's Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and provided trend reports for key pollution metrics * Drafted restructuring of Sustainability programming and outreach strategy toward the University community, and worked to build and maintain networks between environmental student groups and the university

* Worked with professor Elisabeth Moyer in the Geophysical Sciences department to coordinate trips for students taken to energy facilities * Coordinated student signups, obtained bus permits, and worked to ensure proper credentials for visits to secure facilities (Argonne National Laboratory and Dresden Nuclear Facility, for example) * Acted as coordinator during Spring of 2015, and again during Spring of 2016

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Dean's List Activities and Societies: Phoenix Sustainability Initiative, College Programming Office Orientation Leader