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Jeffrey Boutain was born in Dearborn, MI and raised in Lincoln Park, MI (Downriver). Jeff's undergraduate years were spent researching prairie seed germination, Henry Ford Estate's forest canopy vegetation, and Detroit Zoological Institute's chimpanzees. He received a BS in Biological Sciences and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2006. Currently, Jeff is completing his MS in Botany at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His areas of interest broadly including ethnobotany, evolution, and islands; while more narrowly, Jeff has focused on paleoenvironmental reconstruction, on paleoethnobotany, on anatomical identification of plant macroremains, on modern reconstructions of ka imu ki in Hawaii, and on developing high resolution climate change signals from secondary xylem. Jeff is also an amateur homebrewer and researcher of biofuel production.