Sheryn works with data professionals at CRITFC's four member tribes: the Yakama Nation, The Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.  She coordinates and collaborates on ways to improve scientific and fisheries harvest data management throughout its life cycle.  As a biologist for the USGS/Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP), 2016-2019, Sheryn was honored to work with – and learn from – tribal researchers and managers conducting research, monitoring and evaluation (RM&E) of aquatic ecosystems in the Columbia River Basin. PNAMP also is a region-wide partnership with a mission to provide a forum for collaboration among the aquatic RM&E community.

Sheryn's B.A. in Zoology led to 7 years in biomedical research at the University of South Florida medical school, Tampa Veterans Hospital, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore. Sheryn had a 25-year career as an IT consultant in Fort Collins and Steamboat Springs, Colorado, culminating in owning a business with approximately 200 clients for 11 years. Sheryn sold her business to return to ecological research, working at CATIE, Costa Rica, and for US Forest Service as a wildlife biologist in North California and in Colorado. At the University of Maine, Orono, during work toward a M.Sc., she worked with a long-term monitoring project assessing Canada lynx and snowshoe hare population density responses to different vegetative communities created in managed forests.