Western Fisheries Research Center Lead Scientists and Areas of Expertise
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Scientist - Areas of Expertise
Noah Adams - Behavioral ecology of juvenile salmonids
David Beauchamp - Aquatic food webs, bioenergetics, growth and production, climate impacts on coldwater fishes, life history and ecology of resident and anadromous salmonids in fresh and marine waters, predator-prey interactions, artificial light pollution, visual foraging models, fish re-introductions above dams
Summer Burdick - Occupancy modeling and early life history of freshwater fishes
Tim Counihan - Mark-recapture models; survey design and implementation; white sturgeon biology; reservoir ecology
Jeff Duda - Community ecology in streams and rivers, ecological effects of dam removal, ecological modeling, desert tortoise ecology
Nancy Elder - Invasive species, fish diseases, GIS, cold-water diver, salmon smoltification
Eveline Emmenegger - Exotic and invasive fish pathogens, aquatic biosafety laboratory procedures, virology and molecular biology of aquatic viruses
John Hansen - Molecular and cellular immunology of teleosts
Jill Hardiman - Mark-recapture models; predator-prey interactions; bioenergetics; salmonid ecology; GIS; aquatic invasive species; early detection and long term monitoring in large river systems
Jim Hatten - Cell-based (GIS) predictive modeling; landscape ecology; remote sensing
Paul Hershberger - Fish health, infectious and parasitic diseases of wild marine fishes, disease ecology, biology and ecology of herring and other forage fishes
David Hewitt - Population dynamics, statistical analysis, capture-recapture and occupancy modeling, age and growth
Eric Janney - Population dynamics, mark-recapture modeling, quantitative ecology
Gael Kurath - Fish virus molecular biology, epidemiology, and evolution; viral host specificity, viral fitness, and DNA vaccines for fish
Kim Larsen - Ecology of juvenile salmonids with an emphasis on life history and estuarine habitats; expertise in otolith research
Theresa Liedtke - Juvenile salmon migratory behavior, dam passage and survival, transmitter effects on fish performance, forage fish of Puget Sound
Carl Ostberg - Hybridization and geneticsRussell Perrystatistical modeling, life-cycle models, telemetry, mark-recapture analysis, salmonids
Maureen Purcell - Fish health, immunology, genetics of disease resistance, microbiology
Jill Rolland - Fish health; aquaculture
Steve Rubin - Wild hatchery interactions, acoustic telemetry, Columbia Basin steelhead and Chinook salmon life history
Ken Tiffan -Fall Chinook salmon life history
Steve Waste -Anthropogenic impacts on anadromous fish and their habitats
Volunteer Emeritus
John Beeman - Juvenile salmonid migratory behavior; dam passage and survival; biotelemetry techniques
Patrick Connolly - Stream fish ecology: PIT-tag technology; watershed restoration; fish recolinization with dam removal
Diane Elliott - Fish histopathology; detection, pathogenesis, and control of fish bacterial diseases
Alec Maule - Physiology; endocrinology; immunology; contaminant effects
Deborah Reusser - Nonindigenous species biogeography and predictive modeling; GIS and spatial analysis; ecosystem informatics design, implementation and research; Web mapping technology researchDennis RondorfJuvenile salmonid migration behavior; evaluation of fish passage structures; MEOs
Gary Wedemeyer - Marine biology, fish physiology, pollution effects, aquaculture
Jim Winton - Microbiology, molecular biology, fish health