He is also the Principle Investigator of a collaborative research effort with the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey designed to study the decline and recovery of Acropora coral species on the reefs surrounding the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Crosby earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maine. He went on to become a Principle Research Scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. There he participated in physician-scientist training programs and directed research in hematological oncology. He’s been engaging Tabor students and faculty in reef research in the Virgin Islands for the last 15 years. Crosby lives with his family in Marion, MA and enjoys diving, four-wheeling, wood-turning and paying two college tuitions.