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QERM Overview
Mission
History and Background
Careers
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The interdisciplinary nature of the QERM program provides
graduates with an opportunity to develop and apply their quantitative
skills in a variety of fields. The QERM program offers "unique opportunities"
that cannot be found elsewhere. It is seen to fill a niche that is "in-between"
statistics and ecology.
Graduates of the QERM program are employed in a variety
of areas, including:
Environmental
and Resource Management Consulting
Federal and State Resource
Management and Regulatory Agencies
Academic Positions
Other Employment
Environmental
and Resource Management Consulting Firms
TerraStat Consulting Group: Formed by 3 QERM graduates
with expertise across the range of statistical methods. Clients include
municipal, state, and federal agencies, private industry, and university
researchers.
Statistical
Design, Inc: Leska Fore is a statistician and biologist working
to bring science into the policy arena. She works as a statistical consultant
and specializes in issues related to biological monitoring. She has
worked with federal, tribal, and state agencies as well as local jurisdictions,
independent consultants, and volunteer groups to design, test, and implement
biomonitoring programs
Federal
and State Resource Management and/or Regulatory Agencies
A number of students are employed as
biometricians with either private companies or federal, native American,
state or city agencies. The work is varied; one student with a consulting
company has become very involved with risk assessment and designing assessment
procedures for mitigation of polluted sites. Others are involved in the
estimation of wildlife populations, particularly fish. Two students were
involved in the construction of a simulation model for anadromous fish
populations on the Columbia River. The model is used by agencies on the
river and the former students are continuing work associated with it.
Another person worked in the assessment of pollution of fresh water for
a city and has continued with that work.
Northwest
Fisheries Science Center, National
Marine and Fishery Service (NMFS)
Owen
Hamel, Ph.D., Research Fisheries Biologist, Stock Assessment Team,
Fishery
Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division, NMFS
E.
Ashley Steel, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Landscape
Ecology and Recovery Science Team Lead, Watershed
Program, NMFS
Rich
Zabel, Ph.D., Mathematical Statistician, Fish
Ecology Division, NMFS
Southwest
Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa
Cruz Laboratory
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Alaska
Department of Fish and Game,
Division
of Natural Resources
Joel Reynolds, Ph.D., Regional Refuge Biometrician.
Provides statitical and scientific support to the 70+ biologists working
on the 16 national wildlife refuges in Alaska. His work mixes applied
statistical and scientific consulting, active collaboration, program
development, methods development and dissemination.
Division
of Commercial Fisheries
Ivan
Vining, M.S., Biometrician. Conducts analyses and assessments
of stocks harvested in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, including
salmon, Pacific cod, skates, black rockfish, red king crab, blue king
crab, brown king crab, Tanner crab, snow crab, and others. Has also
worked on marine debris issues, including co-chairing a session at
the Third International Marine Debris Conference in Miami, May 1994.
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Columbia River Intertribal
Fisheries Commission (CRITFC)
Bureau of Land Management,
Interagency Survey and Management Group, Northwest
Forest Plan
Columbia Basic
Resarch Project
Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife
Annette Hoffman, Ph.D., Research Scientist, WDFW
- Leads team of biometricians, mathematicians and modelers to assure
that WDFW's sampling programs are cost-effective and that statistical
analyses and computer programs used provide the best possible application
of the scientific method.
Seattle Public Utilities, Water
Management Section
Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Division
of Natural Resources, Reg. 7
Oregon/Washington
Bureau of Land Management
Marianne Turley, Ph.D., Provides statistical and
scientific support to the Interagency
Special-Status and Senstive Species Program for the Oregon/Washington
BLM and Region 6 Forest Service Agency. Also provides statistical
support to the Oregon/Washington BLM Branch of Planning, Science,
and Data. Current work includes statistical analysis, writing, editing
and reviewing a general technical report on a statistical survey for
nearly 400 rare and "little known" (information) bryophytes,
fungi, lichens, and mollusks on the Pacific Northwest public lands.
Academic
Departments Such as Statistics, Resource Management and Environmental
Sciences
Several graduates have continued work
in university settings. One is working with a research team that is developing
indicators for assessing ecological health of freshwater systems.
Department
of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire.
Department of Integrative
Biology, University of California at Berkeley.
School of Natural
Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Alberta,
Canada
Craig Aumann, Ph.D., Department
of Biological Sciences. Post-doctoral research fellowship using
models to assess ecological theories to understand the long term consequences
of management practices, using small scale models to parameterize
larger scale models, developing a methodology to assess hierarchically
structured models; contributing to the philosophy of ecological modeling.
Other
Employment
Some former students are not employed in
the natural resources or environmental field but are still using their
quantitative skills in an applied setting.
Shiquan Liao, Ph.D., Program Manager/Statistician,
King County Department of Judicial Administration and King County Superior
Court. Also 1) Principal, StatPro Consultants; 2) Associate Consultant,
The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistical Consulting, Seattle.
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