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Jeff DeBlieu

Jeff DeBlieu
Climate Change Network Leader

Brief biography
Jeff DeBlieu leads the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula Project, a case study of action strategies to attenuate the impacts of sea level rise on coastal biodiversity in the southeastern US. He has worked for The Nature Conservancy since 1988 and has been involved in numerous conservation projects in coastal North Carolina. These include directing a community-based oyster reef restoration project in Pamlico Sound, serving as team leader on the the Carolinian Marine Ecoregional Assessment and managing the Nags Head Woods Preserve. Prior to joining TNC, he worked for many years as an editor-writer for the Atlanta Constitution, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard. He has a degree in political science from Millsaps College and has done graduate work in journalism and philosophy at the University of Oregon and Emory University.