Justin Garland Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, CA

• Manage the development and implementation of program vision, goals, strategy
• Communicate proactively about program and transactions to Board, President, and other pertinent staff teams
• Completed transactions on over 1,500 acres, including negotiations, appraisals, executed purchase agreements, title review, due diligence, and close of escrow
• Build pipeline of potential acquisition projects by cultivating positive relationships with land owners, other conservation stakeholders, and funders

San Francisco Bay Area

• Conduct annual stewardship and conservation easement monitoring on 26 properties comprising over 85,000 acres.
• Carry out research, field work and mapping to assess conservation value of potential forestland conservation projects
• Maintain organization's geospatial datasets and perform necessary analyses

Durham, North Carolina Area

• Master of Environmental Management in Ecosystem Sciences and Conservation (candidate)
• Certificate of Geospatial Analysis
• Master's Project: Assessing the impacts of long-term woody biomass removal for energy in the Mt. Shasta region of Northern California
• Coursework in forestry, landscape ecology, geospatial analysis, and ecological modeling

San Francisco Bay Area

• Modeled landscape-scale woody biomass inventory
• Devised a GIS model to prioritize key conservation targets in the Mt. Shasta focal region
• Monitored working forest conservation easements on ~3,000 acres of industrial timberland

Durham, NC

• Conducted field work to collect over 80,000 stream temperature data points from HOBOs and Leveloggers
• Wrote data management scripts in R Statistical Programming Language
• Identified potential future research sites using remotely-sensed climate raster sets and ArcGIS 10

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Identified plants and collected GPS coordinates with Trimble Juno and ArcPad
• Processed field data and topology in ArcGIS 10

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed 6 domestic and international environmental justice projects
• Trained 15 pollution-affected communities to collect scientifically-valid air samples
• Negotiated Good Neighbor Agreement between polluters and community groups
• Testified in front of Thai Parliament regarding environmental justice and the impacts of industrial pollution

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed a nationally-recognized green cafe with a staff of 12, including scheduling, ordering, accounting, hiring, and direct customer service
• Implemented green business practices to maintain green certification

Israel And Greece

• (7 dig seasons)
• Pioneered archaeological applications for GPS with early access to survey-grade Trimble 4800
• Coordinated up to 4 field survey crews
• Maintained site-wide spatial databases of artifacts, topography and dig operations using ArcView 3.2

Swaziland

• Implemented HIV Peer Educator program, Neighborhood Care Points to care for orphans, and a community garden
• Built relationships between traditional healers and biomedical community at national level
• Scripted, edited and produced HIV-related Public Service Announcements videos for Swazi Television

Master Of Environmental Management, Ecosystem Sciences And Conservation

Activities and Societies: Society of American Foresters, Student Chapter

Bachelor Of Arts, Comparative Religion