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CV

ASHLEY CRYAN
 

PhD Student

Northeastern University

cryan.a@husky.neu.edu

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Education

 

2016 - present // PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Northeastern University

 

2008 - 2013 // BA in Environmental Studies and Economics, Northeastern University

 

2012 // Studio art program at The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

 

2010 // Semester abroad at Universidad Latina, San Pedro, Costa Rica

 

 

Experience

 

2018 // Arrowstreet Architecture & Design

 

2015 - 2016 // MIT Energy Initiative

 

2015 // Mixed Paper Design Collaborative

 

2014 - 2015 // North American Marine Environment Protection Association 

 

2013 - 2014 // Romberg Tiburon Center 

 

2012 // Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

 

 

Outreach

 

2019 // Guest judge for student projects on                    urban coastal adaptation,

              Dedham Middle School

 

2018 // "School to Sea" lab tours

               Skype a Scientist - elem. level

 

 

2017 // MSC Open House

 

2013 // Starfish International

 

2013 // Science Club for Girls

 

 

Coursework

 

2018 // Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the                Coastal Environment Short Course on                Coastal Resiliency

 

              Graduate Leadership Institute

 

2017 // Design of Urban Shores 

              Ecological Dynamics

              Sustainability Science

 

2016 // Experimental Design

              Urban Coastal Sustainability

 

 

Teaching Assistantships

 

2019 // Marine Invertebrate Zoology and                          Botany (undergraduate)

 

2017 // Experimental Design (undergraduate)

 

2016 // Marine Invertebrate Zoology and                          Botany (graduate)

 

 

 

Grants & Awards

 

2018// Alternate, Fulbright Research Fellowship Award

 

2013 // Physical and Life Sciences Award, Northeastern University Research, Scholarship and Innovation Expo

 

2008 - 2013 // Deans Scholarship, Northeastern University

 

Publications
 

2019 // Cryan, A., B. Helmuth and S. Scyphers. "Ecological Design for Urban Coastal Resilience." Handbook on Resilience of Socio-technical Systems. Eds. Matthias Ruth and Stefan G. Reisemann. Edward Elgar Publishing.

 

2015 // Cryan, A. et al. 2015. "Growth, reproduction, and senescence of the epiphytic marine alga Phaeosaccion collinsii Farlow (Ochrophyta, Phaeothamniales) at its type locality in Nahant, Massachusetts, USA". Botanica Marina 58 (4), 275-283.

 

 

Presentations
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2018 // "Shoreline Design for Ecological Resilience" seminar at Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

 

2018 // "Shoreline Design" at ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX)

 

2018 // "Chelsea Creek: Industrial Landscape" Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the Coastal Environment at Northeastern University

 

2018 // "What's in Your Fish" Forum at the Boston Museum of Science

 

2015 // World Climate at the Boston Society of Architects

 

 

Skills

 

Software //

 

Adobe Creative Suite 

ESRI ArcGIS

R

Tableau

 

Research //

 

Social-ecological systems 

Marine invertebrate ecology

Rocky intertidal dynamics

Urban intertidal ecology

Novel ecosystems

Ecological engineering

Harmful algal blooms

 

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