Faculty

Geoffrey Habron was born in Pleasantville New Jersey. After 2 brief years there, his parents Jim and Juanita, brother James and himself moved to Thailand where his dad worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development. They spent 5 years there before moving back to P'ville for a couple of years. They then spent 4 years in Nicaragua returning to live in East Orange, New Jersey where James and he attended Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. James ran off to Cornell University, while he went to the warmth of University of Miami where he majored in Biology with minors in Marine Science and Caribbean, African and African-American Studies. He spent 3 years in the Peace Corps on the island of St. Lucia, followed by 2.5 years getting his masters degree in Fisheries from Mississippi State University in Starkville. He then worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Silver Spring Maryland and then the Chicago Academy of Sciences in Chicago, Illinois. He finished his Ph.D. in Fisheries at Oregon State University. If you want the gory details of all his work/education meanderings, check out his resume. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Sociology. He focuses on community-based conservation, particularly community-based adaptive watershed management. he lives in East Lansing with his wife Kate, sons Shane and Gabriel, and their dog Marley.

website: http://www.msu.edu/~habrong/

9 Natural Resources Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 432-8086
habrong@msu.edu