Careers

Government 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.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine and Fishery Sciences (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
	Martin Lierman, Ph.D . Watershed Program, NMFS
	Rich Zabel, Ph.D., Mathematical Statistician, Fish Ecology Division, NMFS

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz Laboratory

Eric Anderson, Ph.D., Research Geneticist, Ecology Branch, Molecular Ecology Team. Research on statistical genetics. Provides statistical support for NOAA in its use of genetic data to fulfill its conservation and fisheries management missions. Research interests include percentage inference, mixed-stock fisheries and genetic inference, inference of hybrids from genetic data, etc.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Alaska

Joel Reynolds, Ph.D., Regional Refuge Biometrician. Provide biometric support to 80+ biologists on the 16 national wildlife refuges in Alaska. Responsibilities consist of statistical consulting, collaboration, scientific review, and some professional education. Research includes bootstrap methods and applications, compositional data, longitudinal lmodels for discrete data, model assessment and inference for mechanistic models. Co-founder of TerraStat Consulting. Affiliate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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, Fishery Statistician (Aquaculture), Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit, Fisheries Department.

Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Commission (CRITFC)

Saang-Yoon Hyun, Ph.D., Quantitative Fisheries Scientist. Research interests include extinction risk analysis, salmon return forecasts.

Bureau of Land Management, Interagency Survey and Management Group, Northwest Forest Plan

Columbia Basin Research 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

Nian She, Ph.D., Sr. Civil Engineer Specialist. Research interests include dynamic systems and water modeling.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

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.