EDUCATION

BS in Aquatic Ecology, 1973
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

MS in Forest Management, 1987
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

PhD in Natural Resources Policy, Economics, and Law, 1990
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Post-Doc in Institutional Economics, 1993
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

MINI-BIO

Jon’s interest in the environment, and watersheds specifically, dates back to his undergraduate years at Marlboro College. He remembers sitting in an ecology class on the first Earth Day celebration in 1970 and he completed his first watershed assessment on a 150-acre pond in Vermont in 1972.

Since then he has worked for the Federal government, done fisheries extension work with the Peace Corps in Nepal, worked with the Army Corps of Engineers and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and spent several years as a professor of Forest Policy at Northern Arizona University.

WHAT JON DOES AT COOSWA

Jon joined the Coos Watershed Association in 2000 as their second executive director. As executive director his job is to implement the vision of the Board of Directors and the mission of the Association. This includes grant research and writing, hiring and retaining of staff, recruitment and development of board members, and communication and coordination with project partners. More recently, Jon has concentrated on mentoring other watershed councils.

Coos Watershed Association :: P.O. Box 5860 , Charleston, Oregon 97420 :: Ph. (541) 888-5922 / Fax (541) 888-6111