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Rodney Louis PondBirth Date & Place 19 May 1967 - Eglin AFB, Okaloosa Co., Florida Education 1991 BS Zoology - University of Florida (UF) 2005 MS Restoration Ecology - University of Washington (UW) Currently PhD student in Restoration Ecology - UW Employment History Restoration Ecologist The Nature Consortium, Seattle WA - 2002 to present Teaching Assistant EHUF 473 Restoration Ecology - UW 2002 & 2005 EHUF 481 Sustainable Landscapes - UW 2002 EHUF 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology - UW 2002 EHUF 462-464 Restoration Capstone - UW 2003-4 Research Assistant Wetland monitoring & sample processing ~ Center for Wetlands and Water Resources - UF 1989-1992 Redwing & yellowheaded blackbird data entry ~ UW Zoology Department/Gordon Oriens - 1992-1993 Riparian forest restoration & disturbance monitoring and analysis ~ College of Forest Resources/North Cascades National Park - UW/NPS 2000-present Environmental Educator Heron's Head Park - Port of San Francisco 1999-2000 West Duwamish Greenbelt - The Nature Consortium/Seattle 2003-present Course Instructor Plant Identification Lab ~ Bastyr University, Kenmore WA 2004 School Garden Internship ~ New College of California 1999-2000 Consultant Charles Drew Elementary Butterfly Garden ~ The Coevolution Institute/San Francisco 1999-2000 Horticultural Education ~ San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) 2000 Private wetland mitigation monitoring ~ Kirkland WA 2003-present Lab Manager Center for Wetlands and Water Resources - UF 1989-1992 Education Outreach Coordinator San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) 1998-1999 Urban Composting Educator San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) 1998-2000 Environmental Specialist King County Department of Transportation/Metro 1992-1998 Landscape Design, Maintenance & Installation (self-employed) Feral Gardens - Private clients in San Francisco & Seattle 1999-present Gardener Center for Urban Horticulture - UW Seattle 2000-2001 Organic Gardens Landscape Maintenance - Seattle 2000-2001 Paper Presentations North Cascades National Park Science Days - Newhalem WA - 2002 & 2003 Northwest Biosolids Management Association annual meeting - Lake Chelan WA - 2003 Society for Ecological Restoration Northwest Chapter Conference - Portland OR - 2003 UW Graduate Student Symposium - 2004 MS Thesis defense - 2005 Lectures & Workshops "Restoration of Natural Systems" ~ Snohomish County Native Plant Steward training 2005 "Restoring small scale disturbance in North Cascades low elevation forests" ~ North Cascades Environmental Learning Center 2005 "Urban forest ecology" ~ Center for Urban Horticulture Native Plant ID class 2005 "History of Botanical Classification" ~ Bastyr University 2005 "Soil & Restoration" ~ Earth Corps Team Leader training 2003 - present "Intro to Restoration Ecology" ~ EHUF 201 Urban Ecology - Fall 2003 "Intro to Restoration Ecology" ~ ENG 210 Composition - Spring 2002 "Intro to Restoration Ecology" ~ South Seattle Community College Landscaping with Native Plants Course - Summer 2002 "Residential Food Waste Composting with Worms" ~ San Francisco State University - 2000 Publications Stenberg, J. R., R. Pond, and G. R. Best. 1993. "Below-Ground Biomass and Spatial Distribution from a Freshwater Marsh in Central Florida ." In: Landin, Mary C. (ed) Wetlands: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the Society of Wetland Scientists, New Orleans, La. South Central Chapter, SWS Utica, Miss. pp. 899-903. 5 pp. (CFW-93-10) Rodney Pond. 1993. South Base Pond Report: The Response of Wetland Plants to Storm Water Run-off from a Transit Base Municipal King County Department of Metropolitan Services (METRO). Seattle WA. Received 1993 Award of Excellence in the Technical Publications category from the Society for Technical Communications, Puget Sound Chapter. Rodney Pond. 2005. MS Thesis. Low elevation riparian forest restoration on a former gravel mine, North Cascades National Park : Native plant germination, growth, and survival in response to soil amendment and mulches
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