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|date=2008-02-21}}</ref> in the mid 1980s, while embarking on a racing career.


Westerveld's parents, both internationally-certified ski instructors, directed a large, international ski school in the US, where Jay began ski instructing and ski racing. Jay's father, Walter, developed one of America's first integrated US-European ski racing and educational centers at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skiernet.com/vernon-valley.html |title=Vernon Valley Ski Area • Vernon, NJ |publisher=Skiernet.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-14}}</ref> Walter, described as a "Larger than Life" ski pro{{who?}}, was fatally injured while training in a slalom course in 1973. Jay began teaching within a few years of Walter's death.
Westerveld's parents, both internationally-certified ski instructors, directed a large, international ski school in the US, where Jay began ski instructing and ski racing. Jay's father, Walter, developed one of America's first integrated US-European ski racing and educational centers at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skiernet.com/vernon-valley.html |title=Vernon Valley Ski Area • Vernon, NJ |publisher=Skiernet.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-14}}</ref> Walter, described as a "Larger than Life" ski pro{{who?|date=November 2012}}, was fatally injured while training in a slalom course in 1973. Jay began teaching within a few years of Walter's death.


By the 1980s, Jay Westerveld took up snowboarding and snowboard education while instructing and race coaching at Keystone/Arapaho Basin, Colorado. Westerveld became notable for bringing the Aspen Ski teaching method to Eastern ski resorts, before being invited to the North American world cup snowboard team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skiernet.com/vernon-valley-ski-school.html |title=Memories of Vernon Valley Ski School |publisher=Skiernet.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-14}}</ref>
By the 1980s, Jay Westerveld took up snowboarding and snowboard education while instructing and race coaching at Keystone/Arapaho Basin, Colorado. Westerveld became notable for bringing the Aspen Ski teaching method to Eastern ski resorts, before being invited to the North American world cup snowboard team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skiernet.com/vernon-valley-ski-school.html |title=Memories of Vernon Valley Ski School |publisher=Skiernet.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-14}}</ref>


Westerveld competed in [[Alpine snowboarding|alpine snowboard]] disciplines, with mixed results. His strongest finishes were in the Super-G and Downhill events, with much of his competition occurring on European circuits.{{cn}} Westerveld also trained with the World-Cup ''Cross-M'' snowboard team.{{cn}} After retiring from alpine racing, Westerveld returned to snow sports education.
Westerveld competed in [[Alpine snowboarding|alpine snowboard]] disciplines, with mixed results. His strongest finishes were in the Super-G and Downhill events, with much of his competition occurring on European circuits.{{cn|date=November 2012}} Westerveld also trained with the World-Cup ''Cross-M'' snowboard team.{{cn|date=November 2012}} After retiring from alpine racing, Westerveld returned to snow sports education.


Westerveld continues to coach professional snowboarding, while spending warmer months in America, studying rare species in remote areas of Northeastern North America.
Westerveld continues to coach professional snowboarding, while spending warmer months in America, studying rare species in remote areas of Northeastern North America.

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James Jay Westerveld
Born
James Jay Westerveld

1962
New York, USA
NationalityUS Citizen
Other namesJimbo JJ
Occupation(s)Alpine Snowboard coach, Research Ecologist, writer
Known forEndangered species research

Jay Westerveld (b.1962, freq. spelled Westervelt and Westerveldt, see references) is a former professional snowboarder and American endangered species biologist, known for research of habitats generally associated with endangered species including the Clam shrimp, Bog turtle and the Northern Cricket Frog, amongst others.[1][2] Westerveld is noted for successful ecological preservation efforts in Northeastern North America.[3][4][5]

Biology career

Westerveld is a regular contributor to natural history publications[6] and a prolific presenter at natural history conferences and universities,[7][8][9][10] While studying remote tropical island ecology in the 1980s, Westervelt coined the term "Greenwash" [11] Jay Westervelt was successful in halting the illegal construction on the Glenmere hotel restoration project in early 2010 when it became apparent that the developers were operating without the required permits and endangering the cricket frog and plant life in the area.[12]

Westerveld began endangered species research in the 1970s, having discovered several previously unrecorded populations of endangered biota. Noting uncontrolled real estate development as the primary cause for biotic extirpation in the New York metropolitan region, Westerveld began decades of field studies, surveying potential metropolitan populations of endangered species, in order to preserve critical habitat. Westerveld is a prolific lecturer credited with coining several contemporary environmental neologisms. He coined the familiar term Greenwash in a critical 1986 essay examining practices of the hotel industry.[13][14][15][16]

Westerveld founded the Not-for-profit New York Natural History Council, a biological research group, in 2008.

In 2007 Westerveld founded the Sugar Loaf Historical Society,[17][18] incorporated by the New York State Education Department, as a vehicle by which to enact cultural and natural history preservation and education.

In 2007, Westerveld founded the not-for-profit Glenmere Conservation Coalition,[19] an educational organization developed by several local, state and national organizations to preserve the lands associated with Glenmere lake,[20][21][22] which hosts New York's largest and virtually-last population of the endangered Northern Cricket Frog.[23]

In 2009, he discovered a new population of rare clam shrimp, the fourth population recorded in New York state, out of approximately a dozen worldwide.[5]

Snowboarding career

Westerveld has been referred to as the Father of American Snowboard education, for founding and directing North America's largest snowboard school[24] in the mid 1980s, while embarking on a racing career.

Westerveld's parents, both internationally-certified ski instructors, directed a large, international ski school in the US, where Jay began ski instructing and ski racing. Jay's father, Walter, developed one of America's first integrated US-European ski racing and educational centers at Vernon Valley/Great Gorge.[25] Walter, described as a "Larger than Life" ski pro[who?], was fatally injured while training in a slalom course in 1973. Jay began teaching within a few years of Walter's death.

By the 1980s, Jay Westerveld took up snowboarding and snowboard education while instructing and race coaching at Keystone/Arapaho Basin, Colorado. Westerveld became notable for bringing the Aspen Ski teaching method to Eastern ski resorts, before being invited to the North American world cup snowboard team.[26]

Westerveld competed in alpine snowboard disciplines, with mixed results. His strongest finishes were in the Super-G and Downhill events, with much of his competition occurring on European circuits.[citation needed] Westerveld also trained with the World-Cup Cross-M snowboard team.[citation needed] After retiring from alpine racing, Westerveld returned to snow sports education.

Westerveld continues to coach professional snowboarding, while spending warmer months in America, studying rare species in remote areas of Northeastern North America.

Veterans' Affairs

In 2012, Westerveld was named to the Advisory Board of the Veterans' Holistic Healthcare Foundation of America [27] along with mentor / First Earth Battalion founder LT COL (US ARMY, Ret.) Jim Channon.

References

  1. ^ "In Glenmere B&B approved, to dismay of conservationists". Straus Newspapers - The Chronicle. 2008-04-11.
  2. ^ "Orange County naturalist to lecture on endangered frogs". Warwick Advertiser. 2006-10-27.
  3. ^ "Free spirited explorer". The Times Herald-Record. 2005-10-01.
  4. ^ Cricket frog halts development - RecordOnline.com - The Times Herald Record
  5. ^ a b Alyssa Sunkin (2009-10-11). "Biologist finds rare shrimp in Orange County". recordonline.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  6. ^ "Tiny Caller - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation". Dec.ny.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  7. ^ [1][dead link]
  8. ^ [2][dead link]
  9. ^ http://www.northeastparc.org/meetings/NEPARC2012_Agenda.pdf
  10. ^ "pr2009-001". Sunyorange.edu. 2009-01-13. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  11. ^ Motavalli, Jim (February 12, 2011). "A History of Greenwashing: How Dirty Towels Impacted the Green Movement". AOL.
  12. ^ Sullivan, John, "Fines, stop work order issued for Glenmere mansion" Times Herald Record, January 8, 2010
  13. ^ John Sullivan (2009-08-01). "'Greenwashing' gets his goat". recordonline.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  14. ^ AziaCity.com | Singapore | Magazine | The Gold Behind The Green
  15. ^ epn.dk - Grønvaskere invaderer børsen
  16. ^ "Beware of green marketing, warns Greenpeace exec". ABS-CBN News. 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  17. ^ "Sugar Loaf makes history". Straus Newspapers - The Chronicle. 2007-01-26.
  18. ^ "New historical society comes to town". Straus Newspapers - The Chronicle. 2007-01-19.
  19. ^ "New coalition forms to save Glenmere Lake". Straus Newspapers - Warwick Advertiser. 2007-12-20.
  20. ^ "Glenmere Lake's Tiny Little Frog". YouTube.
  21. ^ "Glenmere Lake Discovery Day attracts more than 100 people". Straus Newspapers - Warwick Advertiser. 2008-04-08.
  22. ^ "County opposes use of herbicide to treat Glenmere Lake". The Times Herald-Record. 2008-02-26.
  23. ^ Jay Westerveld. "Tiny Caller - the northern cricket frog". New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
  24. ^ "20th Anniversary of Snowboarding in Jersey". Mountain Creek Ski Resort. 2008-02-21.
  25. ^ "Vernon Valley Ski Area • Vernon, NJ". Skiernet.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  26. ^ "Memories of Vernon Valley Ski School". Skiernet.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  27. ^ [3]

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