Daniel Schperberg ∴

• Design Aquascapes for Aquarium Exhibit Display
• Animal husbandry: food preparation, feeding, observe animals for baseline and abnormal behaviors
• Tank and equipment upkeep and maintenance
• Care for more than 20 species of saltwater fishes and 11 species of marine invertebrates. Species include leaopard sharks, cabezon, brown rockfish, kelp greenling, monkeyfaced eel, starry flounder, diamond turbot, pacific staghorn sculpin, plainfin midshipman, ruberlip surfperch, striped… Show more

• Design Aquascapes for Aquarium Exhibit Display
• Animal husbandry: food preparation, feeding, observe animals for baseline and abnormal behaviors
• Tank and equipment upkeep and maintenance
• Care for more than 20 species of saltwater fishes and 11 species of marine invertebrates. Species include leaopard sharks, cabezon, brown rockfish, kelp greenling, monkeyfaced eel, starry flounder, diamond turbot, pacific staghorn sculpin, plainfin midshipman, ruberlip surfperch, striped surfperch, dungenness crabs, hermit crabs, ochre star, pink seastar, and purple sea urchins
• As part of the feeding routing, educate children about sea animal anatomy, common behavior, and environmental issues through interactive programs
• Mentor interns in fish and invertebrate identification and animal husbandry
• Collect invertebrates, algae, and sediment from the intertidal zone to transfer into aquaria
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• Passed Shodan Exam on March 18th 2016. Successfully demonstrated memorization of 200 techniques involving throws, pins, disarmament, weapon forms, and weapons partner practice drills.
• Instructed 15 new students with basic techniques, falling, and dojo chores
• mentored students to passing kyu exams and shodan exams, based on Saito-sensei teaching curriculum

• Identify invertebrates under a microscope and in ROV photostills
• Collect core samples from estuaries and ponds, Moss Landing
• Preserve samples in formalin, exchange formalin with ethanol, sort invertebrates via light microscope into taxonomic classes
• Environmental restoration through tending native plants in greenhouse and subsequent transfer to a wetland

• Identify and sort various krill species under a microscope
• take photo stills with a digital microscope camera
• Preserve samples in formalin, exchange formalin with ethanol, and make ethanol dilutions to preserve specimen in vials

• Cast and retrieve Seabird and plankton nets
• Filter water for plankton samples
• Prepare, measure chlorophyll a with fluorometer, and principle of storage in boxes and liquid nitrogen tank for further analysis bound to home research lab Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Interact with visitors to explain issues of marine resources management, pollution, aquaculture, global weather oscillations, global climate change, animal morphology and animal live-cycles through visual and interactive presentations