Jeff Lockwood has a B.S. degree in biology from Adelphi University and an M.S. in Zoology from North Carolina State University. He has worked as an aquatic ecologist for over 18 years, focusing on protection of rivers, estuaries, wetlands, and marine and anadromous fish populations under federal clean water and endangered species laws. Jeff developed procedures used by the Northeast Region of the National Marine Fisheries Service for surveying shellfish beds and assessing seagrass habitat when reviewing coastal development projects. His current work involves forestry and water quality issues affecting the survival and recovery of Pacific salmon.

Jeff has worked on rainforest conservation issues since 1989, first with the Sierra Club’s Jersey Shore Group, where he served on the Executive Committee as Program Chair for several years and founded an International Committee. In the early 1990s he became a Trustee of Rainforest Relief, and in 2000 was named Vice President of the organization. He also has served as the Director of the Northwest Chapter of Rainforest Relief since the chapter’s inception in 1996, and has visited rainforests in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and coastal British Columbia, Canada.