Russell Jacobs is a writer and a naturalist from New York City. His reporting and essays about sharks, herring populations, obscure native plants, weather forecasting, flying squirrels, seaweed, and the morphology of urban archipelagos have appeared in publications such as Slate, Hell Gate, and Urban Omnibus, as well as local papers such as Rockaway's The Wave, and The Rockaway Times. He's also the author of Landlubber, a regular newsletter about marine ecology, seabirds, maritime history, and seafood.
His environmental work has spanned habitat restoration initiatives, field research, and education, including large-scale coastal rewilding projects, wetland restoration, community-driven native plant propagation, and numerous initiatives to monitor wildlife and habitat, from glass eels migrating up Staten Island creeks, to horseshoe crabs, to fish. As an educator and a program manager, he has worked with large government agencies, for-profit environmental groups, and many non-profits around New York City, leading nature tours, classes, and education programs for all ages and backgrounds on everything from birds, to seals, to environmental history, and coastal and marine ecology with organizations such as NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon), Classic Harbor Line, and RISE Rockaway.
Russell writes articles for an online publication: Landlubber - newsletter about urban coastlines, oceans, rivers, lakes etc: https://waterways.substack.com
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