Justin Saunders Email & Phone Number

Kingston, Jamaica

As JET’s Programme Director, I am responsible for overseeing and improving and expanding all JET’s environmental education and conservation programs and managing the JET social media pages. I also assist the CEO in carrying out personnel and administrative functions.

Clarendon, Jamaica

My role is to ensure the successful implementation of projects through effective project management that is consistent with institutional and Funder-specific guidelines policies and procedures, including leading community engagement, involvement, awareness, and participation in project activities. I am responsible for assisting with building relationships.

Remote

Teach and evaluate the English skills of adult students from around the world. We prepare students for English proficiency examinations and for use of English in the workplace and life in general.

Westmoreland, Jamaica

As Project lead I collaborate with Post-doctoral, Masters and PhD students for successful execution and management of short and long-term research projects related to understanding migratory connectivity. I manage the logistical, personnel, and daily scheduling and management of field crews from year to year.

Jamaica

I worked as the Avian specialist for the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Proposed Mining of Bauxite in the Special Mining Lease 173 (SML 173) Area in the parishes of St. Ann and Trelawny (2020). I worked to provide an understanding of the avian biodiversity present in the area of interest as well as the potential long-term and short-term impacts of.

Monitored the movements, body condition and breeding success of tagged Kirtlands warblers on their breeding grounds. The project involved using modus towers, hand-held and car mounted telemetry to locate radio-tagged birds. I was responsible for capturing, taking measurements and bleeding all tagged birds and assisted with nestling banding.

Jamaica

Assisted with specimen preparation and laboratory set-up and oversaw in-class teaching and student progress for Introductory Biology.I was also a representative on the department’s management committee

Jamaica

Worked on a Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Project on over-wintering migratory birds, focusing primarily on the behavior, territoriality and body condition of American Redstarts across the winter season. In my first stint I volunteered as a field technician on the before volunteering as a research assistant to a PhD student the next.

Westmoreland, Jamaica

Assisted in Dr. Peter Marah’s Long Term Research in Environmental Biology Project on wintering migratory birds. This project included netting, mapping and re-sighting and identification of resident and migratory songbirds.I Worked on two other projects as well which exposed me to a range of avian field studies. These included food manipulation experiments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assisted in managing a captive experiment aimed to better understand the migration and nutritional ecology of a Neotropical migratory songbird, the wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina). I was in charge of the daily husbandry of the birds and aided with the collection of behavioural data during the experiment. I also assisted with the research and creation of.

New Hampshire, USA

Conducted Nest searching and monitoring exercises on the Black-throated Blue Warbler as well as behavioral observations and vegetation surveys in order to determine survivorship, population dynamics and overall success of the species on their breeding grounds.

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Michigan, USA

Conducted Nest searching and monitoring exercises on the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler in order to determine the extent of brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds as well as point counts and re-sights.

Discovery Bay, Jamaica

Conduct forest surveys in the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory Limestone forest including GPS tagging and mapping of trees using Trimble ® GeoExplorer and Pathfinder Office and data analysis using ArcMap. Assist in Lab Outreach.

Kingston

Assigned to review documents for upgrading and updating the Ministry’s document repository.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Marine Biology

Activities and Societies: Catholic Students Movement

Education record