Toby Jacobs, MS Candidate

Toby Jacobs, MS Candidate Conservation Biology
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Research Interests

My main research interests are mangrove and cloud forest ecology. I’ve lived and traveled in the Neotropics (mostly Costa Rica and Honduras) off and on for the last five years pursuing those very subjects. In 2008, I co-started Guanaja Mangrove Restoration, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to replanting mangroves on Isla de Guanaja, Honduras. I think that tropical regions worldwide are of crucial importance as the earth’s systems are continually stressed, and it will take a concerted effort from all conservationists to preserve the extraordinary level of diversity that currently exists.

Education

Antioch University New England, Keene, NH
MS Candidate Conservation Biology
August 2010–present

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
BS Biology
August 2002–May 2006

Work/Research/Field Experience

Guanaja Mangrove Restoration
Co-Director, August 2008–present
Portland, ME

Started non-profit from ground up, including incorporating and securing
fiscal sponsorship
Organized planting sessions in Guanaja, Honduras for winter 2008, 2009 and summer and winter 2010
Supervised and worked with local and American volunteers to plant R. mangle propagules
Responsible for all grant-writing and fundraising

East West Technical Services
NOAA Fishery Observer, January 2008–April 2009

Collected bycatch and economic data on scallop boats
Prepared detailed data reports for government research and records

Reserva Cloudbridge, Costa Rica
Volunteer Researcher, November 2006–March 2007, January–March 2009

Various biological research projects involving monitoring of recovering pasture land
Aided in community initiatives, such as recycling program and wall construction
Projects included: field assistance on Smithsonian Hectare project, photomonitoring, biomonitoring, anuran diversity survey, and chiropteran diversity survey