Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Conservation Banking Coordinator
Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Ventura, CA
Jeff Phillips is a senior fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field office in Ventura, California. Mr. Phillips started with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) while earning his Master’s degree at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in 2004. He was appointed to a full-time Presidential Management Fellowship position upon completion of his Master’s degree in June 2005. Since then, he has worked as an environmental contaminants biologist specializing in natural resource damage assessment and oil spill response for the Ventura field office (2005 to 2007) and the Pacific Islands field office in Honolulu, Hawaii (2007 to 2010), then as the geographic division supervisor for the Ventura field office South Coast division (2010 to 2015), and most recently as the Ventura field office Conservation Banking Coordinator (2015 to present). He is also an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University Santa Barbara, teaching environmental science and biology courses in the undergraduate B.A. program (2015 to present). He is a regular instructor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation Banking Training, and has worked on Service mitigation policy and regulation development.
Prior to entering graduate school, Mr. Phillips worked as a scientific advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX Emergency Response Office, contracted under the Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START). He performed a variety of emergency response duties in the U.S. and abroad, focusing on environmental sampling, remediation and reporting. He was honored with a letter of commendation in 2001 for service during the Washington D.C. anthrax attacks.
In 1999 and 2000, Mr. Phillips lived in Argentina to open a satellite office for Artesian Environmental Consultants. While in Buenos Aires, he focused on marketing and startup operations for the company while also executing soil and water quality environmental site assessment and remediation projects throughout the country and becoming fluent in Spanish.
Mr. Phillips received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Conservation with a minor in Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology from the University of Colorado - Boulder in 1994. He has always loved the outdoors and spends his free time surfing, fishing, traveling and hiking with his wife, 12-year old son, and family dogs.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM MST
