Dana Winkelman, PhD
Dana is interested in environmental effects on fish population dynamics and fish biology. Dana's research has three major themes: disease ecology of inland salmonids, the effects of water quality on fish populations, and evaluation of endangered species.
Dana's research has three major themes: disease ecology of inland salmonids, the effects of water quality on fish populations, and evaluation of endangered species populations. Dana's lab focuses on several salmonid diseases, including whirling disease, bacterial coldwater disease, and bacterial kidney disease. Dana's work on water quality has focused on both contaminants and water temperature as factors effecting fish populations in the Great Plains of Colorado. Dana's lab has also focused on assessment and management of endangered fishes utilizing mark-recapture techniques, Passive Integrated Transponders, and otolith microchemistry.
Dana joined the Cooperative Research Unit program in 1998 as Assistant Unit Leader at the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. In 2003, Dana became the Unit Leader at the Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Dana received his bachelor's of science degree in biology in 1984 and his masters of science degree in Biology in 1987 at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his PhD in zoology from the University of Georgia in 1994.
