Work

Jeff Barger joined Environmental Defense’s Austin, TX office in August of 2006 as a project coordinator for the Gulf of Mexico fisheries project. He is working to advance innovative, market-based strategies to improve recreational fisheries management throughout the Gulf of Mexico region.

Prior to joining Environmental Defense, Barger worked as an aquatic habitats specialist for the National Wildlife Federation where he organized a diverse group of interests to develop equitable alternatives to several water development projects that threatened critical wildlife habitat in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. He has also served as a restoration biologist for The Nature Conservancy. Post-graduate training included investigations of the structure and function of freshwater systems of the intermountain west and the role terrestrial-aquatic linkages play in stream nutrient dynamics.

Background

B.S – Biology, University of Central Arkansas