Jenny L. Cronin

**** ******* ****** *** *****, California 92114

C: 619-***-**** E: aceay9@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective

To launch my professional career with an environmental consulting firm where my skill set in water

remediation, soil sampling, toxicology analysis, customer service and teamwork will make significant

contributions to sustainable growth.

Education

San Francisco State University 2012- Bachelor of Science in Geology

Relevant courses: hydrogeology, ground water contamination, geologic field techniques, field methods,

sedimentology and stratigraphy, climate change, mineralogy and petrology, quantitative geology,

environmental problems and solutions, chemistry, physics, calculus

Grossmont Community College 2009- Art History

Academic Honors and Awards

NSF Climate Change Scholarship: For 2012 senior thesis on Pliocene analogs for future climate

change predictions

Dean’s List- Fall 2011 -Spring 2012

Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant- Spring 2010–Spring 2011

Scientific Experience

Undergraduate Researcher- Spring 2011 - Spring 2012. Senior thesis project: Upwelling conditions

along the California Margin during the early Pliocene warm period.

Paleoceanography Laboratory Graduate Assistant- Fall 2010 - Spring 2012. Research project:

Reconstructing the thermocline depth in the south Atlantic subtropical gyre. Identified and collected

different foraminifera species, made sediment standards using organic chemical extractions and

running those samples through a gas chromatographer- mass spectrometer (GC-MS) and applying

software to document chemical makeup.

Professional Skills

OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER Training Certified.

Moderate experience with PHREEQC and MODFLOW.

Extensive field work and research including but not limited to soil and sediment descriptions, field

notes and reports, mapping and measurements using a Brunton Compass.

Created smear slides at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML)

Worked with a Beckman-Coulter laser particle size analyzer for grain size analysis at MLML.

Extensive microscope experience that included different phytoplankton identification and collection,

smear slide analysis and mineral identification with percent coverage.

Performed chemical extractions in order to make sediment standards that included using and

preparing methalene-chloride-methanol and spiked toluene. Other chemicals used in lab included

chloroform, hexanes, hydrazine, citric acid, hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.

Microsoft Office: able to gather and input complicated data and organize it in a clear, coherent matter.

2 years of upper management experience leading and coaching a sales team.

Maintained a 36 hour work week as a researcher and as a manager at a local café to support myself

through my scholastic career.

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