Since graduation, Jeff has spent over twenty-four months in the field learning and conducting technical field research techniques such as radio telemetry, prey hair analysis for food habit studies, livestock depredation investigations, remote camera surveys, informant interviews, capture and immobilization, biomedical collection procedures and behavioral observation. To date, his focus has been on carnivore conservation while working on an array of field projects including wolves in Minnesota, cheetahs in Namibia, grizzly bears in Alaska, tigers in China and currently jaguar surveys in Central America.

In November 2000 Jeff was introduced to the world of tiger conservation when Dr. Ron Tilson, Director of Conservation at the Minnesota Zoo, asked him to help advise a Chinese-American field survey of wild South China tigers. Prior to setting up camp in China, Jeff acquired training in tiger field survey methodology from Dr. Tilson's Sumatran Tiger Project field staff at Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia. The ensuing seven months were spent exploring the remote, rugged mountains of South China by foot, motorcycle, bus, car, tractor and train with a small team of Chinese biologists in search of the last wild South China tigers.

Jeff is currently co-working on community conservation projects in British Columbia and Namibia with Round River Conservation Studies, a research and education organization based in Utah, while remaining involved in ongoing tiger research with Dr. Tilson and the South China Tiger Protection Program and jaguar survey work with the Jaguar Conservation Program. He is applying to the Conservation Biology Masters Programme for 2003-2004 at the University of Capetown.