Matthew Oster

Seeking the Vice President of Conservation position at Loggerhead Marinelife Center to maximize my potential as an excellent environmental leader with exemplary managerial skills.

• Created a Marine Academy, upcycling one of Mr. Diesel’s (yes, the inventor of the diesel engine) estates in Ocean City New Jersey (OCNJ)
• Captained a 42 foot pontoon boat used as a “floating classroom” in OCNJ
• Proposed the same floating marine classroom as a joint adventure between LMC and my present employer, The Benjamin School (TBS)
• With the aid of your Hannah Campbell, sold TBS on purchasing 2 tagged loggerhead turtles for LMC. Incorporating the live data across all of our curriculum!
• Severed on several Environmental Commissions
• Liaison between my OCNJ school board and the NJDEP and NJEPA concerning several serious aquifer health concerns
• Awarded the Congressional Award for Environmental Excellence
• Hold a Masters (MS) degree in Environmental Conservation and Education with an emphasis on coastal marine systems.
• Union President for 254 NJ teachers; negotiating salaries, benefits and contracts.
• Initialized and constructed the only collegiate HD state of the art observatory in NJ
• Science and STEM supervisor both at OCNJ and TBS
• Created STEM academies both in OCNJ and here at TBS
• Masters 50 ton Captains license educationally and commercially.
• Large Pelagic Surveyor for NOAA
• University professor for Biology and Oceanography.

MS Environmental Science and Conservation from Rowan University, Glassboro New Jersey

• Emphasis on Coastal Marine Systems

• Emphasis on Genetics
• Physics Minor