Oct 31, 2014 · Jay Vavra passed away on October 22, 2014, from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 50. He is survived by his wife, Jean, and two sons, Trajan, 12, and Evan, 10; his parents, Ronald...

Nov 15, 2014 · High Tech High School teacher Jay Vavra on one of his visits to Africa. Jay Vavra led an adventurous life, with his work as a scientist and educator taking him to exotic locations like...

Oct 31, 2014 · Jay Vavra passed away on October 22, 2014, from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 50. He is survived by his wife, Jean, and two sons, Trajan, 12, and Evan, 10; his parents,...

Jun 8, 2019 · The author(right) with long-time teaching partner, Jay Vavra. Jay was fond of referring to our partnership as akin to that of the scientist, Ed Ricketts, and the novelist, John Steinbeck, who worked together on The Log from the Sea of Cortez.

Dr. Jay Vavra grew up in San Diego and returned home after a range of experiences in biology abroad and throughout California. He graduated from Stanford University and has a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from USC. Dr. Vavra also has experience working as a biologist in the fields of biotechnology and zooarchaeology, and as…

May 25, 2010 · Jay Vavra teaches science for the real world. His eleventh graders take their classroom lessons and apply them to problems like wildlife conservation. They've mastered DNA analysis and taught Tanzanian officials how to genetically identify bushmeat, illegally poached wild animal meat from the African forest.

For more than a decade, from HTH’s earliest years until Jay Vavra fell ill and passed away in 2014, Jay and Tom collaborated with their 11th grade students each year on books published about the San Diego Bay.