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Patrick A. Pitts Page 2 From 2013 to 2018 I served as the South Florida coordinator for the USFWS South Florida Coastal Program (CP) which encompassed 19 counties. I developed and maintained partnerships with other natural resource agencies, non-governmental organizations, private landowners, and local communities to accomplish CP goals. I established and managed cooperative agreements to implement on -the -ground habitat restoration projects, and I logged project accomplishments in the USFWS HabITS database. I provided technical assistance through memberships on habitat restoration advisory teams and programs. I developed a new 5 -year Strategic Plan for South Florida as part of the periodic National CP 5 -year Strategic Plan revision and I helped create the new Florida East Central Estuarine Restoration Team to facilitate and coordinate restoration projects on Florida's Atlantic Coast. I also served on the Habitat Restoration Team for the Service's Gulf Restoration Program (GRP). In this capacity I coordinated with local government agencies and non-governmental organizations to prioritize, plan, and implement landscape -level restoration projects in southwest Florida through funding sources made available as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (e.g., RESTORE Act). Research Specialist II, July 1984 — January 2002 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. Hzoy. j Ft: Pierce, Florida, 34946; (772)465-2400; Dr. Ned P. Smith — Supervisor I investigated physical and ecological processes in marine and estuarine waters of the Florida Keys, Florida's southern estuaries, Florida's Indian River Lagoon and the central Bahamas. The major focus of research was on hydrology and transport processes in shallow coastal waters and how these processes may impact ecosystems through transport of fish and invertebrate larvae, sediments and nutrients. Results of this work have been used by resource managers to guide habitat management and restoration policies. Primary job responsibilities included coordinating field work, maintaining and operating oceanographic instrumentation, analyzing and interpreting data using a variety of specialized scientific software, writing technical reports, and publishing manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I also served as Diving Safety Officer (DSO) whereby I managed and supervised scuba operations for two research divisions (--20 divers). Duties included formulating and implementing company diving regulations, training divers, maintaining diving equipment, producing annual scuba activity reports, and serving as DSO on ocean-going research vessels. Biological Scientist I, March 1982 — June 1984 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 911 St. SE, Vero Beach, Florida 32962; (561)778-7200. I assisted in the research on the biohistory and ecology of various mosquito and midge species, with particular regard to the viruses they can transmit. Duties included maintaining viable colonies of these insects for physiological experiments, collecting wild mosquitoes to provide new brood stock, and deploying "sentinel" birds to determine the presence of mosquito -borne viruses in the wild. I was responsible for a field project that required trapping and obtaining blood samples from small mammals to determine the level of mosquito -borne viruses in wild populations.