Sarah D. Carnegie
Vancouver, B.C.
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EDUCATION

2017 – Bachelor of Education, Secondary – Science(Biology) and Social Studies. University of British Columbia
Certifications: Certified K-12 B.C. teacher & International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program (DP)
2011 – Doctor of Philosophy, Biological Anthropology, University of Calgary, Canada
2004 – Master of Arts, Physical Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1996 – Bachelor of Science, Anthropology and Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

K to 12

Teacher Candidate (practicums):

Long practicum courses (Jan – April 2017):

  • Science 10, Biology 11, Social Studies 11

Short practicum lessons (Oct – Nov 2016):

  • Biology 11: “Natural Selection and the Peppered Moth“
  • Socials Studies 11: “1920s and the Winnipeg General Strike“

Science Workshop Presenter/Assistant Manager – Scientists in School, Ajax, ON (2012 – June 2014)

  • Developed and presented science based workshops (STEM) to children in grades 1 – 8;
  • Topics taught included: grade 1/2 animal adaptations, grade 5/6 energy, grade 7/8 environmental science
  • Organized public events, presented various topics to students and public during special events.

 Post-secondary
Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary, 2012

  • Introduction to Biological Anthropology (3 credits) – Spring and Summer sessions
  • Primate Behavioural Ecology (3 credits) – Spring and Summer sessions
  • Duties included: preparation of courses, delivery of content (lectures, videos, hands-on artifacts (e.g. fossil casts), development, administration and marking of exams, addressing student questions and concerns, calculation and submission of mid and final grades.

Assistant Instructor:

  • Introduction to Ecology and Evolution – University of Calgary
  • Introduction to Physical Anthropology & Osteology – University of Alberta
  • Anthropological Statistics – University of Calgary
  • Method and Theory in Primatology – University of Calgary
  • Introduction to Primate Behaviour – University of Alberta

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (most recent)
Science/Resource Writer – Scientists in School, Ajax, ON (Jan – June 2016)

  • Created teacher resource packages for workshop programs including, researching topic information, writing/summarizing background information, and creating, testing and writing instructions for in-class activities.

Assistant Manager – Scientists in School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2012 – June 2014)

  • Contributed to the development, teaching and evaluation of science workshops for elementary school children (Kindergarten – Grade 8); delivered in-class workshops;
  • Wrote and peer-edited topic resource packages for teachers;
  • Recruited, trained and managed volunteers for special events;
  • Tracked program utilization and outputs, strategized and implement program growth plans.
  • Solicited, established and stewarded strong working relationships with stakeholders, including donors, schools, school boards and community partners.

Research Project Manager – CorbinPartners Inc., Toronto, ON (2008-2011)

  • Developed and led social and market research projects from end-to-end including: client consultation, research design, team training and management, quantitative and qualitative statistical analysis, budget monitoring, evaluation and interpretation of results, and formal report writing.

VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2016/17 – Vancouver Athletic Football Club (VAFC), Vancouver, BC – team manager/assistant coach
2014, 2015 – Little Mountain Baseball League (LMB), Vancouver, BC – team manager/assistant coach
2009 – 2015 – Yard Sale for the Cure, Toronto, ON – sales/fundraising
2008 – Toronto Wildlife Rescue Center, Toronto, ON – survey manager
2003 – 2004 – Northwest Greyhound League, Calgary, Alberta – foster home; Pet Access League Society (PALS), Calgary, Alberta – pet visitation
1997 – 1998 – Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Society, Calgary, Alberta. – fundraiser
1994 – 1996 – Calgary Zoo, Botanical Garden and Prehistoric Park, Calgary, AB – docent/event planner

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow – National Primate Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 2002 & 2007

  • Conducted hormone analyses on primate fecal samples using RIA and EIA techniques.

Primary Investigator, Female Capuchin Reproduction, 2000 – 2011

  • Female white-faced capuchin reproductive behaviour and ovarian hormones; collected behavioural data and fecal samples for hormone analysis; trained and supervised six field assistants; gave lectures to visiting school groups (M.A. & Ph.D. research).

Project Manager, Primate Census – Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, 2003

  • Designed and coordinated an exhaustive primate census of a 108,000 hectare tropical forest park; managed a team of four people.

Research Assistant:

  • Female white-faced capuchin reproductive behaviour and ovarian hormones; Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica; collected behavioural data and fecal samples for hormone analysis (2000).
  • Ecological and life history of Ord’s Kangaroo Rats, Suffield National Wildlife Area, Suffield, Alberta; collected ecological and life history data on Ord’s Kangaroo Rats and Black-tailed Prairie Dogs; capture, marking, telemetry and GPS techniques used (1999).
  • Male-male relationships in white-faced capuchins; Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, Costa Rica; dawn to dusk follows of monkey groups, behavioural collection, GPS tracking (1997).

PUBLICATIONS
(journals, book chapters and abstracts – peer-reviewed)
Kalbitzer, U., Bergstrom, ML., Carnegie, SD., Wikberg., EC., Kawamura, S., Campos, FA., Jack, K., Fedigan, LM.  In Press (2017). Female sociality and sexual conflict shape offspring survival in a Neotropical primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Carnegie, SD. 2015. Hormones (Primate Sexuality). Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. John Wiley & Sons.

Schoof VAM., Jack KM., Carnegie SD. 2011. Rise to power: A case study of male fecal androgen and cortisol levels before and after a non-aggressive rank change in a group of wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Folia Primatologica 82: 299-307.

Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Melin, AD. 2011. Reproductive seasonality in Cebus capucinus in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. Inernational Journal of Primatology. 32: 1076-1090.

Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Ziegler TE. 2011. Social and environmental factors affecting glucocorticoids in female white-faced capuchins. American Journal of Primatology. 73:861-869.

Izar P, Stone A, Carnegie SD, Nakai E. 2009. Sexual selection, female choice and mating systems. In: South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of South American Primates: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Garber PA., Estrada A., Bicca-Marques JC., Heymann EW., Strier KB. (eds.). New York: Springer

Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Ziegler TE. 2008. Predictors of allo-maternal care in Cebus capucinus. Invited contribution to symposium entitled: “Cooperative breeding in primates: expanding our perspectives on taxonomic distribution and mechanisms”. XII Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2008.

Fedigan LM, Carnegie SD, Jack K. 2008. Predictors of reproductive success in female white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 137: 83-90.

Carnegie SD. 2007. Geophagy in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists (CAPA) 2007. Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Ziegler TE. 2006. Post-conceptive mating in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus: hormonal and sociosexual patterns of cycling, non-cycling and pregnant females. In: New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation. Estrada, Garber, Luecke, and Pavelka (eds.). Kluwer/Springer Academic Press. pp. 387-409.

Carnegie SD, Fedigan LM, Ziegler TE. 2005. Behavioural indicators of ovarian phase in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Special Issue: Advances in Field Endocrinology. American Journal of Primatology. 67: 51-68.

Carnegie SD., Fedigan LM., Ziegler TE. 2004. Non-conceptive mating in Cebus capucinus: hormonal evidence for a counter-strategy to infanticide. Twentieth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Torino, Italy. Folia Primatol. Supple. 1 75: 242.

Carnegie SD., Fedigan LM., Ziegler, TE. 2004. Behavioural indicators of ovarian phase in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). 27th Annual meeting of American Society of Primatologists, Madison, Wisconsin. Am J Primatol. Supple 1 62:120-121.

Carnegie SD., Fedigan LM., Ziegler TE. 2001. Preliminary description of ovarian hormone and behavioural characteristics in wild white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2001.

Carnegie SD., Fedigan LM., Ziegler TE. 2003. Hormonal and behavioural evidence of non-conceptive mating in wild female white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus), Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. 26th Annual meeting of American Society of Primatologists, Calgary, Alberta. Am J Primatol. Supple 1. 60: 56-57.

Carnegie SD, Urton EJ, Gummer D. 2001. Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus, attack on a Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia, in Suffield National Wildlife Area, Alberta. Canadian Field Naturalist. 115: 345-346.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & AFFILIATIONS
Peer Reviewer (since 2004):

  • Animal Behaviour
  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Canadian Journal of Zoology
  • Folia Primatologica
  • International Journal of Primatology
  • The Leakey Foundation (grant reviewer)

RESEARCH FUNDING

  • Graduate Students’ Association, Academic Project Fund, 2008 ($1500)
  • International Primate Society Research Grant, 2007 ($1500)
  • Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid-of-Research, 2007 ($750)
  • Thesis Research Grant, University of Calgary, 2005 ($1000)
  • Alberta Ingenuity Fund Studentship, 2005 ($60,000)
  • Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Post Graduate Scholarship (PGS-D), Univ. of Calgary, 2005 ($60,000)
  • of Anthropology Research Grant, Univ. of Calgary, 2005 ($1000)
  • of Anthropology/Grad Studies Research Award, Univ. of Alberta, 2003 ($1000)
  • of Anthropology/Grad Studies Research Award, Univ. of Alberta, 2002 ($1000)
  • American Society of Primatologists Small Grant, 2001 ($1500)
  • Graduate Students’ Association Professional Development Grant, 2001 ($1500)
  • Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid-of Research, 2001 ($1500)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Award, University of Saskatchewan, 1999 ($3000 for undergraduate project on small mammals)

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

  • Mary J Bryant Scholarship, University of British Columbia, 2016
  • Graduate Studies, University of Calgary, Travel Conference Grant, 2008
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship; Dept. of Anthropology, 2007
  • Dean’s Research Excellence Award, University of Calgary, 2005
  • Grad Students’ Association Distinction Award, Univ. of Calgary, 2005
  • Dean’s Entrance Scholarship, University of Calgary, 2004
  • Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship, 2002
  • J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, 2001