Legacy Award
I created the Erin Foster Abernethy Costume GRExit Legacy Award Fund Tenure Annual Award for Integrative Biology graduate students in 2020. This annual award seeks to promote core values at OSU.
Labor Union Leadership Experience
- Co-lead Negotiator, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2019-2020)
- President, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2018-2019)
- Vice-President of Organizing, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2017)
- Department Steward, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2016-2017)
PhD Affiliations, Outreach, and Trainings
- Society for Freshwater Science, member (2011-2020)
- Outreach Committee, Integrative Biology, OSU; Scientist for Grand Canyon Youth;
Instructor for Wild about Wildlife, Discovery Days, Outdoor School, Winter Wonderings; science fair judge (2015-2018)
- LGBTQ Workshop, Society for Freshwater Science (2017)
- Implicit Bias Training, OSU (2017, 2019)
I created the Erin Foster Abernethy Costume GRExit Legacy Award Fund Tenure Annual Award for Integrative Biology graduate students in 2020. This annual award seeks to promote core values at OSU.
Labor Union Leadership Experience
- Co-lead Negotiator, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2019-2020)
- President, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2018-2019)
- Vice-President of Organizing, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2017)
- Department Steward, Coalition of Graduate Employees, OSU (2016-2017)
PhD Affiliations, Outreach, and Trainings
- Society for Freshwater Science, member (2011-2020)
- Outreach Committee, Integrative Biology, OSU; Scientist for Grand Canyon Youth;
Instructor for Wild about Wildlife, Discovery Days, Outdoor School, Winter Wonderings; science fair judge (2015-2018)
- LGBTQ Workshop, Society for Freshwater Science (2017)
- Implicit Bias Training, OSU (2017, 2019)
Aquatic invertebrate education station at Discovery Days. Photo credit: D. Taylor
