As the former Director, Jacob led the Center for Conservation Innovation, where we focus on improving wildlife conservation in the U.S., especially under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). CCI works at the intersection of data, technology, and policy to pioneer innovative, pragmatic conservation solutions. We work with others inside and outside of Defenders to make conservation data available and easily interpretable, so that policy makers and the public can make informed decisions about conservation. During his tenure as lead of the Center, Jacob served as an affiliate faculty member in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University, was an editor of the leading conservation journal Conservation Letters, and was a member of the Policy Tools and Methodologies task force of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Interests
- conservation policy
- administrative data
- community ecology
- evolution
- genomics
Education
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PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, 2013
University of Texas at Austin
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BA in Conservation Ecology, 2007
Prescott College
Latest
- Targeting current species ranges and carbon stocks fails to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate: opportunities to support climate adaptation under 30x30
- Coproduce conservation technology with law and policy experts to increase its impact
- Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30x30 in the United States
- The need for a National Biodiversity Strategy
- Status of the Recovery Mandate Under Section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act
- Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data
- A Database of Habitat Conservation Plans and Related Documents Developed Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
- Status of the recovery mandate under section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act
- Consequences of Resource Limitations on ESA Implementation
- Comments on NOAA's Draft Mitigation Policy for Trust Resources
- Tracking Species Recovery Status to Improve Endangered Species Act Decisions
- Stopping Extinction and Reversing Nature Loss: The Case for a National Biodiversity Strategy
- Better representation is needed in Endangered Species Act implementation
- Degradation of visible autumn icons and conservation opportunities: trends in deciduous forest loss in the contiguous US
- Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30x30 in the US
- States and 30x30 Dashboard
- Update to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species program FY 2022 request
- Supporting Habitat Conservation with Automated Change Detection in Google Earth Engine
- Lesser prairie-chicken habitat changes since court delisting
- A Monitoring Policy Framework for the United States Endangered Species Act
- 180 in 100 Days: Bringing Biodiversity to the Forefront
- Benchmark for the ESA: Having a Backbone is Good for Recovery
- NWR Spending Dashboard
- Supporting habitat conservation with automated change detection in Google Earth Engine
- Finding Refuge: Imperiled Species and the National Wildlife Refuge System
- Getting to 30x30 in the US: Guiding Decision-makers with GIS [talk]
- Conservation Policy Crash-course for Scientists
- Getting to 30x30: Guidelines for Decision-Makers
- Where (Endangered) Wildlife Come First
- Defining habitat to promote conservation under the ESA
- Limited patterns among ESA 4(b)(2) critical habitat exclusions
- A Monitoring Policy Framework for the United States Endangered Species Act
- Get Out and Get Counting in This Year's 'City Nature Challenge'
- Remote Defending: Participating in Community Science
- If There Ever Were a Time to Pay Attention to Science, It Would Be Now
- Same law, diverging practice: Comparative analysis of Endangered Species Act consultations by two federal agencies
- Update to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species program FY 2021 request
- Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act could be used more widely
- US imperiled species are most vulnerable to habitat loss on private lands
- Recovery plans need better science to support decisions that allow species to decline in abundance but be recovered
- First Water From Air, Now Power From Air?!
- FY 2021 Testimony of Jacob Malcom, Ph.D.
- FY 2021 Testimony of Jacob Malcom, Ph.D.
- U.S. action lowers barriers to invasive species
- Funding a Future for Wildlife
- ESA Listings Dashboard
- Working the World Over for Species Protections
- ESA Recovery Plans Dashboard
- ESA Listed Species Found in a Single State
- Timeliness of Five Year Reviews under the Endangered Species Act
- Counties of Occurrence of ESA-Listed Species
- Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change
- Leveraging data and technology to improve Endangered Species Act implementation
- Soft (Artificial) Muscles for Conservation
- A definition of 'habitat' under the ESA
- Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change
- Solve the biodiversity crisis with funding
- Over $1.5 billion per year is needed to recover Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed species
- Tracking demographic and threats status of ESA-listed species
- Comments on EPA's proposed revised pesticide risk assessment
- The Endangered Species Act: Trump Administration Regulations
- It’s Summer and Our Thoughts Turn to…a Polydimethyl…What?
- Monitoring Policy for the ESA
- Defend the Roadless Rule in Utah
- Novel data show expert wildlife agencies are important to endangered species protection
- Refining species range maps for improved implementation of the ESA
- PACT Summary
- conservationist.io
- EPA Draft Revised Method for National-level Endangered Species Risk Assessments
- Defenders: A Day in the Life - Congressional Testimony
- Testimony to House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, 22 May 2019
- Testimony to House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, 22 May 2019
- ESA Listings by Taxonomic Group
- ESA Funding Infographic
- Thunder Basin National Grasslands - U.S. Forest Service's Plan Amendment
- Border Wall: Map of April 23, 2019 DHS Waivers
- Potential Impacts of Proposed Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities On Ocelot Recovery in Texas
- Border Wall: Map of February 2019 DHS-DOD Request
- Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans
- Automated habitat change detection methods using satellite data to improve conservation law implementation.
- Section 7 Explorer
- Funding needs of the Endangered Species Act
- Win-Win: The Endangered Species Act and Our National Parks
- Dynamic recovery planning and technology application
- 30 years of satellite data show imperiled species are most vulnerable to habitat loss on private lands
- Refined range mapping for improved ESA implementation
- Introduction to the ESA
- Endangered Species Act Funding
- Conservation at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Policy
- ESAdocs Search
- NMFS West Coast Salmon Range (BETA)
- State ESAs
- Tracking Emerging Innovations: Aerial Vehicles with Force
- Introducing the CCI Seminar Series: Kicking off with emerging science on threats to wildlife
- Conservation innovation with the Department of Defense
- The Cost of Underfunding
- Improving the quantitative analysis of data related to recovery programs
- Dynamic recovery: Web-based ESA recovery plans
- ESA Counties
- Water from Desert Air: Tracking Emerging Innovations
- The Texas Conservation Plan has not slowed oil and gas well development in dunes sagebrush lizard habitat
- Petition to List the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as a Threatened or Endangered Species and Designate Critical Habitat
- It's Challenge Time! Get Out for Nature
- Bees and Bears and Kids, Oh My!
- Introduction to the ESA
- Quickening the Countdown to Extinction for Canada Lynx
- Texas imperiled species prioritization
- ESA Listings
- Refining ESA ranges with placenames and GBIF
- Section by Section: Dismantling the ESA?
- Sand mines destroying Dunes Sagebrush Lizard habitat
- Where the (ESA-listed) Wild Things Are
- Same law, different results: comparative analysis of Endangered Species Act consultations by two federal agencies
- Intrastate Species and the Endangered Species Act
- Free aerial imagery as a resource to monitor compliance with the Endangered Species Act
- Tracking demographic and threats status of ESA-listed species
- Sand Mines Destroying Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Habitat
- At Risk Species
- ESA Section 7 Incidental Take (FWS)
- Working Lands for Wildlife
- Changes in designated critical habitat, 2001-2011: Working paper
- A simple, sufficient, and consistent method to score the status of threats and demography of imperiled species
- Southeast U.S. imperiled species planning
- Data contradict common perceptions about a controversial provision of the US Endangered Species Act