Jonathan Annis has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Florida State University and is currently working on his M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Jonathan will be working as a environment volunteer in Madagascar beginning in February, 2003.

His Peace Corps assignment description is “The purpose of the environment project is to improve the conservation of Madagascar’s protected areas and their associated benefits (watershed, non-timber forest products, etc.) Techniques include reducing natural resource degradation resulting from unsustainable agriculture and forest product use in the peripheral zones around protected areas and establishing locally run sustainable income generating activities linked to the protected areas.” Jonathan hopes to study the effects of differing land uses on the hydrology of the region. As a secondary project, Jonathan would like to organize small-scale water sanitation projects within his community.

Photos from Jon in Madagascar

BEFORE he left , in December 2002: Why is Jonathan Annis sitting on toilet in cold and snowy outside? Click here to find out