Education
B.S. Wildlife Science, The Pennsylvania State University,1987
M.S. Fishery Biology, Colorado State University, 1990
Professional Experience
2010-Present: Director, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center – Columbia, MO
2010: Acting Director, U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND
2008-2010: U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau Approving Official – Biology, Columbia, MO
1999-2008: Section Chief/Fishery Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Klamath Falls Field Station, Klamath Falls, OR
1992-1999: Research Fishery Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Center, Columbia River Research Laboratory, Cook, WA
1990-1992: Fishery Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Columbia River Field Station, Cook, WA
1988-1990: Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1986-1987: Fisheries Biologist Aide, The Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Bellefonte, PA
Models for capture-recapture data are commonly used in analyses of the dynamics of fish and wildlife populations, especially for estimating vital parameters such as survival. Capture-recapture methods provide more reliable inferences than other methods commonly used in fisheries studies. However, for rare or elusive fish species, parameter...
Hewitt, David A.; Janney, Eric C.; Hayes, Brian S.; Shively, Rip S. We used 13 years (1995-2007) of capture-mark-recapture data to assess population dynamics of endangered Lost River suckers Deltistes luxatus and shortnose suckers Chasmistes brevirostris in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. The Cormack-Jolly-Seber method was used to estimate survival, and information theoretic modeling was used to assess variation due...
Janney, E.C.; Shively, R.S.; Hayes, B.S.; Barry, P.M.; Perkins, D. No abstract available
Banish, N.P.; Adams, B.J.; Shively, R.S. No abstract available
Eiler, J.E.; Alcorn, D.J.; Adams, N.S.; Shively, R.S.; Rondorf, D.W. No abstract available
Eiler, J.E.; Acorn , D.J.; Neuman, M.R.; Adams, N.S.; Shively, R.S.; Grant, C. Using gastric and surgical transmitter implantation, we compared radio-tagged juvenile chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (T(O)) with tagged fish also having a gill biopsy (T(B)) to determine biopsy effects on fish implanted with radio transmitters. We found no evidence during the 21-d period to suggest that a gill biopsy reduced survival,...
Martinelli-Liedtke, T. L.; Shively, R.S.; Holmberg, G.S.; Sheer, M.B.; Schrock, R.M. We examined the effects of surgical and gastric transmitter implantation techniques on the growth, general physiology and behavior of 230 subyearling chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Walbaum) (100 mm-154 mm fork length). The transmitter weighed 1.3 g in air (0.9 g in water) and comprised, on average, 6% of the body weight of the fish (in...
Martinelli, Theresa L.; Hansel, H.C.; Shively, R.S. We tracked 335 northern squawfish implanted with radio transmitters in the Columbia River in May–December 1993 and May–September 1994. Most fish were released near The Dalles and John Day dams, with the remaining fish released into reservoir areas away from dams. We used boats with mounted Yagi antennas, fixed site receiver stations near the dams...
Martinelli, Theresa L.; Shively, Rip S. We collected gut contents from northern squawfish Ptychocheilus oregonensis captured in the Clearwater River, Idaho, 0–6 km from its confluence with the Snake River, following the release of 1.1 million yearling chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha from the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. Before the hatchery release, northern squawfish gut...
Shively, R.S.; Poe, T.P.; Sauter, S.T. Predation by northern squawfish (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) has been documented to be significant on emigrating juvenile salmonids near juvenile bypass outfalls at hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Criteria for siting juvenile fish bypass outfalls to reduce predation were developed using locational data from radio-tagged northern squawfish...
Shively, Rip S.; Poe, Thomas P.; Sheer, Mindi B.; Peters, Rock No abstract available
Shively, R.S.; Poe, T.P.; Peters, R. No abstract available
Stouder, Deanna J.; Fresh, K.L.; Feller, R.J.; Poe, P.P.; Shively, R.S.; Tabor, R.A.