Jacob E. Wojcik

Jacob Wojcik is a Project Scientist for the Onondaga Environmental Institute (OEI). Mr. Wojcik received a B.S. in Wildlife Science from State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in 2018. As an undergraduate, Mr. Wojcik worked in technician roles for the SUNY Research Foundation, most notably with the Onondaga Lake Biomonitoring Program where he conducted fish surveys across the lake. Mr. Wojcik began his professional career at OEI in 2019 as a Field Technician and then became the Field Team Coordinator in 2020. He then moved onto a technician role with The Nature Conservancy in 2021 before accepting a position with Arkansas’s Department of Environmental Quality as an Ecologist in 2022, working on sections 303(d) and 305(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Mr. Wojcik then continued his water quality regulatory assessment experience with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation as a Research Scientist in early 2023 before needing to step down from the position due to personal health reasons in late 2023. He then resumed work with OEI in early 2024 accepting a role as Project Scientist. As Project Scientist at OEI, primary responsibilities include: coordinating, managing, and executing field efforts; train and supervise field technicians and interns; collaborate with project partners and contractors to implement work elements; develop and maintain databases as well as perform analytical and interpretive assessments of data; develop project deliverables such as scientific reports and educational materials.

Past and present projects that Mr. Wojcik has assisted with at OEI include: wet-weather monitoring of a constructed wetland facility in the Harbor Brook watershed (NY), assessing ecological integrity in the upper Onondaga Creek Watershed, brook trout restoration in the Onondaga Creek Watershed, an ecological investigation of the Poestenkill Watershed (NY) and mudboil abatement and directional drill efficacy in the Onondaga Creek watershed. Mr. Wojcik’s areas of study include aquatic entomology, fisheries, aquatic ecology, limnology, and applied data management and analytics.