Dr. Jason Hill graduated from the University of Montana with a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Biology. He followed graduation with a series of wildlife-based adventures, such as monitoring sea otters in California and tracking endangered Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers in Florida. He joined the Vermont Center for Ecostudies as a quantitative ecologist and conservation biologist in January 2015.

Jason investigated the post-fledgling ecology of Saltmarsh Sparrows at the University of Connecticut, where he received his Masters in Ecology. He completed his PhD in Ecology at Penn State University, where he studied the population ecology of grassland sparrows following experimental landscape manipulation.