Alex Mordas, M.S.

Professional Experience

Consultant
2007 – present

Providing builders & homeowners with comprehensive knowledge and design support for green building, renovation & remodeling; and
Providing certification for green and energy-efficient buildings (LEED®, FGBC, ENERGY STAR & HERS).

REALTOR® Consultant & EcoBroker®
Keller Williams, Town & Country, Tallahassee, FL
Current

Providing quality service for buyers, sellers, investors and builders. In addition to traditional real estate services, EcoBrokers® bring value-added knowledge through training on issues such as water-quality, lead-based paint, asbestos and radon, as well as an understanding of the market, health, and environmental benefits of green homes and products.

Research Fellow
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
2006 – 2007

Examination of the roles of foraging behavior, signal construction, and display behavior on the temporal and spatial rate and scale of adaptive evolution in a keystone pollinator group (Euglossine bees).

Research Fellow
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2006 – 2007

Adaptations and Constraints in a Group of Keystone Pollinators: Implications for a Changing World. The ultimate goal of this work was to produce testable predictions of the long-term stability of mutualisms in light of the current trends of climate change, deforestation and habitat alteration. Work was conducted throughout Central and South America.

Research Assistant
Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology
2005

Teaching Experience
University of Arizona
2004-2006

Consultant/Biologist
Turnstone Environmental Consultants
2003-2004

Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife
2003

Herpetological field studies: population data collection in headwater streams – assessing the impacts of forestry management practices on amphibian communities

Americorps
Washington State Department of Ecology
2000 – 2001

Wetland restoration/mitigation projects, trail design and construction, and State and Federal park work.

Farmer
Seeking Common Ground Community Supported Agriculture (C.S.A.)
1999

Ran all daily operations on an 80 member organic CSA: Co-ordination of farm operations, membership distribution, weekly harvest and field & greenhouse operations, etc.

Asociación Hogar Nuevos Horizontes Design and implementation of educational programs with Mayan children – Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
2004
Board of Directors: Olympia Housing Collective Non-profit housing organization dedicated to providing housing for students and low-income individuals – Olympia, WA
2001-2004
Board of Directors: Canandaigua Lake Pure Waters, Ltd. Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to the preservation of Canandaigua Lake and the surrounding watershed through science, knowledge, and sound policy advocacy – Canandaigua, NY
1999-2000

Wikelski, M., J. Moxley, A. Eaton-Mordas, M.M. Lopez-Uribe, R. Holland, D. Moskowitz, D.W. Roubik, and R. Kays. Large-range movements of Neotropical orchid bees (in prep.)
Abrell, L., A. Eaton-Mordas, & T. Eltz. Temporal variability in an exogenously-sourced sexual badge (in prep.)
Eaton-Mordas, A. Roost Characteristics, Abundance & Distribution of the Neotropical Phyllostomid Tonatia Sylvicola (in prep.)
Eaton-Mordas, A. Trogons, Termites & Ants: Two’s company, is three a crowd? (in prep.)
Eaton-Mordas, A., E.P. Urling, M.P. Hayes, D.J. Dugger and A.J. Quinn. 2004. Plethodon dunni, P. vehiculum (Dunn’s Salamander, Western Red-backed Salamander). Behavior. Herpetological Review. 35 (4): 366-367