JAREB KELTZ
Jareb Keltz was born and raised on Nantucket Island where he has been exploring the waters around his home since birth. He helped found CRG to bring a multifaceted approach to restoring wetland and marine ecosystems. He has been a lifelong surfer, sailor, and boater with a passion for navigation, weather, and the ecology of the world. He is most happy diving for bay scallops or digging quahogs in an eelgrass bed with a flock of Brant geese floating nearby, or watching a raft of eider ducks dive on a bed of mussels. It was an independent research project on Bay Scallop Telomeres and Senescence in high school that started his interest in marine ecology. He is a 2001 graduate of Middlebury College where he earned a degree in Environmental Studies. While attending a Tropical Marine Ecology class in San Blas, Panama he had the opportunity to study coral reefs and mangrove swamps. Always looking for a way to interact with the ocean, his study abroad was with Sea Education Associations Sea Semester fall of junior year. There, he studied oceanography, navigation and weather while sailing a 125ft schooner from Woods Hole, MA to the Caribbean. After college, the sea called again. This time he sailed a 58ft wooden yawl from his home on Nantucket to Germany by way of Newfoundland, the Azores and British Isles. Jareb lives on Nantucket with his wife and two daughters where he applies his practical knowledge and appreciation of various stakeholder issues to restoring eelgrass beds and cranberry bogs.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Born and raised on Nantucket, with fond memories growing up near and exploring Madaket beach and Hither Creek on the West end of the island, Elizabeth now lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Jesse and two children. She and Jesse own an environmental consulting and mitigation banking company, Waypoint, LLC, where they have developed a passion for stream, wetland, and ecological restoration. She brings over 15 years of experience in the environmental industry and a Masters in business to CRG, and is excited to see the potential benefits these types of restoration projects will bring to her hometown and the region. She still returns regularly for work and visiting her family that resides on the island.