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