jebbetts16

I grew up as an outdoors-man in southern Michigan and love to learn about and record information on all living things, especially related to streams. My favorite type of day would be a hike with a fellow nature enthusiast or three through a mix of habitats to a stream or lake to go fly-fishing, keeping a bird count all the way. I am currently a masters student in Fisheries and Wildlife focusing on Limnology and Spatial Ecology at Michigan State University. My thesis is in impacts of deforestation on fisheries and water quality in the Indio-Maiz Biosphere Reserve in Nicaragua. During summers in my undergrad I worked on a project funded by TU assessing the impacts of the Boardman River Dam removals on stream insects and water quality. Since my undergrad at Calvin College, I have worked on Alaskan Salmon habitat, Puerto Rican trees and freshwater shrimp, watershed education (WMEAC), and Southwest Michigan rain gardens (Plaster Creek Stewards). I am interested in addressing responses of ecosystems to long term environmental change. I am currently focusing my career advocating for Central America's rain forest ecosystems, as they are a global biodiversity hotspot and are extremely threatened in this era of swift global change.