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2007 Georgia Basin Puget
Sound Research Conference
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Julian Aherne
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling
Trent University
Environmental and Resource Studies
Peterborough Ontario
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling, Trent
University
Skip Albertson
Oceanographer
Washington State Department of Ecology
EAP
Olympia WA
Skip Albertson is a licensed engineer with MS degrees in
engineering (UC-Berkeley) and oceanography (UW) who works with hydrodynamic
models and hydrographic data for the WA Dept of Ecology toward a greater
understanding of water quality in greater Puget Sound.
Jamie Alley
Director
British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Oceans and Marine Fisheries Branch
Victoria British Columbia
Jamie Alley is a geographer by training with degrees in natural
resource management from Simon Fraser University and the University of
Victoria. Jamie began his career
with the BC provincial Government in 1977 and has held a variety of positions
in natural resource ministries as well as the Intergovernmental Relations
Secretariat and the Cabinet Office.
He is currently the Director of the new Oceans and Marine Fisheries
Branch of the Ministry of Environment and has responsibility for marine
fisheries management, seafood industry development and oceans resource management.
Loreen Allphin
Director
Dept. of Plant and Animal Sciences
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
Elaine Anderson
Wildlife Program Coordinator
Langley Environmental Partners Society
Langley British Columbia
Elaine is the Wildlife Program Coordinator for LEPS. She is
also a PhD student at UBC. She has a Master of Science in Environmental
Planning degree (UBC), a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree (UBC), and a
Bachelor of Arts degree (UBC). She is a registered Professional Planner (MCIP)
and a Professional Agrologist (P.Ag.). She has worked as an Environmental
Planner with the Greater Vancouver Regional District and the Township of
Langley.
Eric M. Anderson
PhD Student
University of Wyoming
Dept. of Zoology and Physiology
Laramie WY
Eric Anderson received a BS from the University of Puget Sound
in 1994 and an MS from the University of Wyoming in 2002. He is currently a PhD candidate at the
University of Wyoming and is studying the influences of coastal resources on
scoter condition throughout the annual cycle.
Roland C. Anderson
Biologist
Seattle Aquarium
Life Sciences
Seattle WA
Roland C. Anderson, Ph.D., is a biologist at the Seattle
Aquarium where he has worked for 29 years. He is particularly interested in the
natural history and behavior of Puget Sound cephalopods. He has published
numerous articles on marine invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest in
scientific journals and the trade press. He has participated in numerous
conferences, giving talks on the behavior of cephalopods and other mollusks.
Peter Arcese
Professor
University of British Columbia
Centre for Applied Conservation Research
Vancouver British Columbia
Peter Arcese is FRBC Chair of Conservation Biology and
Director of the Centre for Applied Conservation Research, UBC, and has much
experience working with the ecology, genetics and conservation of bird, mammal
and plant populations in WA, BC and Africa.
Paul A. Arp
Professor
University of New Brunswick
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management
Fredericton New Brunswick
Research interests: forest soils, forest hydrology, forest
biomass and nutrient cycling, ecological modeling, soil-based GIS applications
and related field studies
Caroline Astley
Wildlife Biologist
Madrone Environmental Services Ltd.
Abbotsford British Columbia
Caroline Astley is a Wildlfie Biologist with more than four
years of experience with rare species and wildlife habitat inventory in the
Fraser Valley. Previous to Madrone, she was the Wildlife Coordinator for LEPS.
Amanda L. Babson
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Seattle WA
Amanda Babson hails from Gloucester, Massachusetts. She
majored in physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She received
her M.S. from the University of Washington School of Oceanography in 2002 and
will receive her Ph.D. from the same institution in December 2006. Her research
has focused on questions of circulation variability in Puget Sound using
simplified and idealized modeling tools.
Peter F. Bahls
Director
Northwest Watershed Institute
Port Townsend WA
Peter Bahls is Director of Northwest Watershed Institute, a
non-profit organization based in Port Townsend, WA. He earned an M.S. in
Fisheries Science and Aquatic Ecology from Oregon State University and has
worked on watershed assessment, protection, and restoration in Oregon and
Washington for over 12 years.
Susan A. Baldwin
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Vancouver British Columbia
Sue Baldwin is an associate professor in the Department of
Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Her lab works on developing genetic
biomarkers for haemic neoplasia in mussels which are used for environmental
monitoring. She also does work on
bioremediation and biomonitoring of contaminated sites.
Leslie B. Banigan
Environmental Health Specialist
Kitsap County Health District
Water Quality
Bremerton WA
Leslie Banigan is a Registered Sanitarian with the National
Environmental Health Association and a certified On-Site Wastewater Inspector
with Washington State Department of Licensing. She is the Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC)
Program Coordinator at the Bremerton-Kitsap County Health District and has been
with the Health District?s Water Quality Program since 1996. Since 1996, Leslie has worked on
various pollution identification and correction projects throughout Kitsap
County including Port Gamble Bay, Gorst, Tracyton, Long Lake, Burley Lagoon and
the Upper Hood Canal. Her efforts
in Port Gamble Bay and Burley Lagoon were key in the identification and
correction of sources of fecal coliform pollution that eventually led to the
upgrade of commercial shellfish growing areas. She is co-founder of the PIC Protocol and Priority
List. In addition, Leslie
developed extensive experience in water quality monitoring techniques while
assisting with the Health District?s Stream and Marine Water Trend Monitoring
Program.
Carrie Baron
Drainage & Environment Manager
City of Surrey
Engineering
Surrey British Columbia
Carrie Baron is the Drainage & Environment Manager for the
City of Surrey. She is a Water
Resources Engineer with over 21 years of experience in this field from both a
municipal and consulting perspective.
Her section?s responsibilities include overseeing the function of the
natural and manmade drainage systems within Surrey and the Engineering
component of the Nature Matters Program.
Russel Barsh
Director
KWIAHT
Centre for the Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea
Lopez Island WA
Russel Barsh studied human ecology and law at Harvard, then
taught at the University of Washington (1974-84), University of Lethbridge
(1993-99) and New York University (2000-2002), and advised on Indigenous
peoples and environmental issues at the United Nations (1984-2000). He now directs KWIAHT, a nonprofit
conservation laboratory in the San Juan Islands with a focus on human and
climate forcing of long term ecosystem change.
Corinne J. Bassin
University of Washington
Applied Physics Laboratory
Seattle WA
Corinne Bassin has a Masters in Marine Science from University
of California, Santa Barbara
Henriette Bastrup-Birk
Research Associate
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Educational Science and Learning
Brussels Capital Region
After two years in the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Henriette Bastrup-Birk worked for more than ten years in the EU Commission
(Brussels) on community development and collaborative ecosystem management in
cross-border regions. Between 1998 and 2005, she undertook ten study tours to
the PS/GB region in order to gain better understanding of land use planning and
ecosystem restoration in this region, meeting a variety of actors north and
south of the border. In 1999, 2000 and 2003, she spoke at seminars and
conferences in the region. She is
currently research associate at the Department for Educational Science and
Learning, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She will be a visiting
scholar at UBC in spring 2007.
Eric M. Beamer
Research Director
Skagit River System Cooperative
Research
La Conner WA
Eric Beamer has worked as a scientist for the Skagit River
System Cooperative since 1984. He is the principle investigator on several
Skagit watershed projects, including monitoring Chinook salmon in the tidal
delta & nearshore, studies of the use of non-natal estuaries by juvenile
Chinook salmon, and recent research that directly links estuarine &
nearshore habitat to recovery of wild Skagit River Chinook salmon populations.
Richard J. Beamish
Senior Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
R. Beamish is the Senior Scientist at the Pacific Biological
Station in Nanaimo. He is a member
of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada. His
current research examines the factors that regulate the abundance of Pacific
salmon in the Ocean.
Helen D. Berry
Coastal Ecologist
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Nearshore Habitat Program
Olympia WA
Helen Berry is a coastal ecologist who studies the status and
trends in intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats for the Nearshore Habitat
Program in the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
Rebecca J. Best
University of British Columbia
Forest Sciences, Centre for Applied Conservation
Research
Vancouver British Columbia
Rebecca Best is completing her M.Sc. at the Centre for Applied
Conservation Research at UBC. In September, she plans to begin Ph.D. research
on the ecology of invasive species in Pacific Northwest eelgrass beds.
Chief Darren Blaney
Homalco First Nation
Campell River British Columbia
Chief Darren Blaney is serving his 2nd 3 year term as Chief of
Homalco First Nations and has also served 6 years as the Council President of
Bute Inlet Development Corporation. He received a Bachelors in First Nations
Studies in 1998 from Malaspina.
Gina Bonifacino
Air Quality Planner
US EPA Region 10 Office
Gina Bonifacino (panel moderator) is an Air Quality Planner
with the US EPA Region 10 Office which has jurisdiction in the Pacific
Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. Prior to coming to EPA, Gina was a
fisheries volunteer with the US Peace Corps in the Philippines. She holds a B.S. in Environmental
Resource Management from Penn State University and an M.S.E.S. and a Master of
Public Affairs (M.P.A) from Indiana University.
Lynne E. Bonner
Science Planning Advisor
British Columbia Ministry of Environment
State of Environment Reporting
Victoria British Columbia
Lynne Bonner has been working in the British Columbia Ministry
of Environment?s State of Environment Reporting unit for the past 4 years. Over the past 18 years with the
provincial government in Victoria, BC, she has worked in habitat enhancement,
monitoring and inventory programs and was instrumental in developing standards
for wildlife habitat ratings applied to terrestrial ecosystem mapping. Currently, Lynne is working on updating
the Environmental Trends in British Columbia report for projected release in
late 2007.
Julia K. Bos
Oceanographer
Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia WA
Julia K. Bos, Environmental Specialist IV, Environmental
Monitoring and Trends. Julia Bos
has been working at the Department of Ecology since 1999. She serves as coordinator and data
collection manager for the Marine Waters Monitoring program which includes
PSAMP-funded long-term marine waters monitoring, the South Sound Dissolved
Oxygen Study and coordination with the UW PRISM project. She received a B.S. in Oceanography
from the University of Washington in 1999.
Joshua V. Bouma
Graduate Student
University of Washington
Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Joshua Bouma is a Master?s degree candidate in the School of
Aquatic & Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington studying pinto
abalone recovery in the San Juan Islands. He is an avid diver whose favorite
dive destinations include the San Juans, Neah Bay and Port Hardy. When not carrying a slate, calipers and
tape measure in the water, Josh can usually be found with an underwater camera
in his hands.
John L. Bower
Associate Professor
Western Washington University
Fairhaven College
Bellingham WA
John teaches field biology, natural history, evolution,
environmental issues, and folk music performance at Fairhaven College of
Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. His current research centers on changes
in NW Washington marine bird abundance.
His past research includes studies on bowhead whales and acoustic
communication in songbirds. Most
recently, John and his family lived 500 miles off the coast of Chile on Isla
Robinson Crusoe for five months while studying endangered hummingbirds and
seabirds.
Matthew T. Bowes
University of Victoria
Geography
Victoria British Columbia
I am a UVic PhD candidate in geography with a background in
cultural anthropology, environmental studies and outdoor recreation. My
research interests include parks and protected areas, resource issues,
recreation political ecology,
local knowledge and community collaboration
Sean W. Boyd
Research Scientist
Environment Canada
Canadian Wildlife Service
Delta British Columbia
MSc, UBC 1978.
PhD, SFU 1995. Biologist
with Canadian Wildlife Service from 1980 to 1998, Research Scientist with
Canadian Wildlife Service since 1998 to present.
Matthew Boyle
Senior Biologist/Principal
Grette Associates, LLC
Tacoma WA
Matthew Boyle is a Principal and Senior Biologist at Grette
Associates. His practice in
aquatic nearshore habitat studies, restoration and monitoring include
intertidal habitats and eelgrass.
Jill M. Brandenberger
Research Scientist
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Chemistry
Sequim WA
Ms. Jill Brandenberger is a marine chemistry research
scientist. She manages programs focusing on the biogeochemical cycling of trace
metals in marine and freshwater environments. Recent research programs focus on correlations between storm
water loading of contaminants and land use classifications, watershed scale
contaminant mass balances, evaluating historical trends in hypoxia in the Puget
Sound, biotic uptake and depuration of uranium, and the dissolution of barite and
release of associated trace metals in the marine environment.
Michael T. Brett
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Civil Env. Eng.
Seattle WA
Michael Brett obtained his PhD in biological limnology from
Uppsala University in Sweden and is current an Associate Professor in Civil and
Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.
Scott Brewer
Hood Canal Coordinating Council
Poulsbo WA
Scott Brewer is currently the Salmon Recovery Program Manager
with the Hood Canal Coordinating Council. Scott has a BA degree in Urban and
Metropolitan Studies/Policy Analysis from Michigan State University and Master
of Science from the UW School of Fisheries. Scott also worked as a Senior
Ecologist for King County on salmon recovery planning for the Lake
Washington/Cedar River watershed. Scott has also served as the Director of the
Port Gamble S?Klallam Tribe?s Natural Resources Department; an Ecologist with
American Rivers; and Fisheries Manager with the Skokomish Tribe.
Kevin H. Britton-Simmons
Research Associate
University of Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories
Friday Harbor WA
Current position:
Research Associate (Postdoc), Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of
Washington. Education: Ph.D. Ecology, The University of
Chicago, 2003; B.S. Zoology, University of Washington, 1998.
Ginny Broadhurst
Marine Program Coordinator
Northwest Straits Commission
Mount Vernon WA
Ginny Broadhurst is the Marine Program Coordinator for the
Northwest Straits Commission. She
manages regional marine conservation and restoration projects and provides
technical support to seven Marine Resources Committees. Ginny has a BS in
environmental conservation from University of New Hampshire and an MMA in
marine affairs from University of Washington.
Irene B. Brooks
Commissioner to the U.S. Section
International Joint Commission
Washington, DC
Irene B. Brooks was appointed as
Commissioner to the U.S. Section, International Joint Commission, by President
George W. Bush and assumed office on December 3, 2002.
In an era of unique challenges, Irene
Brooks has carefully and thoughtfully tread an impressive path as
administrator, negotiator and leader. She was appointed by Governor Tom Ridge
to represent Pennsylvania on all interstate river basin commissions of which the
Commonwealth is a member. Ms. Brooks served as Pennsylvania Commissioner and
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Office
for River Basin Cooperation from 1995-2002. She coordinated with the Secretary
of the Department and the Governor?s Office on a variety of interstate issues,
including the development of long-range plans and adoption of policies, as well
as regulations affecting the water of millions of citizens within fifteen
states and two Canadian Provinces. She served as Chair of the Great Lakes
Commission from 1998-2000 and Vice Chair from 1996-1998.
In 1989 she was appointed by
President George Bush to serve as the United States Commissioner to the
Delaware River Basin Commission, a five-member regulatory and quasi-judicial
agency managing the water resources within the 13,000-square-mile Delaware
River Basin. She helped formulate federal policy, coordinating a consensus
among all federal agencies and working with Congressional committees,
individual Congressmen and staff members plus state and federal
representatives.
Previously, Ms. Brooks was appointed
by unanimous vote of the Court of Common Pleas to complete a term as Chester
County Commissioner and was subsequently elected to that position. She
developed and implemented a comprehensive countywide plan to help protect and
preserve the environment, farmland and open spaces, the first of its kind in
Pennsylvania. The Chester County Open Space Program has been adopted by other
counties across the country and has won several Presidential Awards.
Ms. Brooks graduated cum laude with a
Bachelor?s degree in political science/public administration from West Chester
University. She has received the Mary H. Marsh Medal from the American Water
Resources Association, the Stewardship Award from the Delaware River Basin
Commission, recognition for her outstanding service from the Great Lakes
Commission, the Leadership Award from the Interstate Council on Water Policy
and the Outstanding Service to Conservation Award from The Nature Conservancy,
among others. She enjoys fly fishing, tennis and exploring the ebbs and flows
of notable American tributaries.
Darrren Brown
Environmental Coordinator
Abbotsford British Columbia
Darren Brown is an Environmental Coordinator with the City of
Abbotsford. Previous to his position with the City, he worked in the private
sector both nationally and internationally covering a wide variety of
environmental issues and disciplines.
Dan Buffett
Regional Biologist, BC Coast
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Surrey British Columbia
Dan Buffett is the regional biologist for the BC Coast Office
of Ducks Unlimited Canada and is responsible for conservation planning and
research. He is part of a
multi-agency team that secure and restore estuarine habitat along the BC Coast.
Dan recently received his Masters in Resource and Environmental Management from
Simon Fraser University.
Douglas A. Bulthuis
Estuarine Scientist
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Mount Vernon WA
Dr. Douglas Bulthuis is the Research Coordinator at Padilla
Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve near Mount Vernon, Washington. He has conducted research on seagrasses
and seagrass ecosystems in Victoria, Australia and in the Pacific Northwest. He received his Ph.D. degree from
LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, a M.S. from Michigan State
University in East Lansing, Michigan, and a B.A. from Calvin College in Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
Brenda Burd
President
Ecostat Research Ltd
N. Saanich British Columbia
Research Associate UBC
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney British Columbia
Dr. Burd?s Benthic work has taken two directions; 1) development of sampling designs for
aquatic habitats, as well as
analysis of benthic community response and recovery patterns as they
relate to the environment. These
projects are numerous, and cover a variety of temperate and tropical marine
habitats from 1980 to present. Some projects are outlined in the attached
curriculum vita, and include relatively untouched areas as well those
potentially affected by metal mines, pulp mills, fish farms and multiple
discharges (sewage, stormwater, industrial, ocean dumping); 2) development of
sampling and analytical protocols and theory for benthic research and
monitoring programs.
John Carleton
Landscape Planner
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Habitat Program
Olympia WA
John Carleton is currently a Landscape Planner for the
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He has been with the agency for
over 26 years, working in such areas as natural resource damage assessments and
watershed analysis.
Jose Carrasquero
Fisheries Director
Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Seattle WA
Jose Carrasquero is a Fisheries Director with Herrera
Environmental Consultants. He has graduate
degrees in both fisheries and marine biology and 17 years of professional
experience in Puget Sound including nearshore habitat restoration design. He has participated in the study of
shore-drift direction and longshore sediment transport, beach sediment and
profile characterization, benthic ecology, and salmon biology and estuarine
habitat requirements. Mr.
Carrasquero has participated in salt marsh restoration feasibility studies
including the selection of reference marshes.
James C. Carruthers
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia
Resource Management Environmental Studies
West Vancouver British Columbia
James Carruthers 1970: Bachelor of Architecture, UBC
(Vancouver, BC). 1979: Master of
Environmental Studies, York University (Toronto). 1971-1990: Architect/Urban Planner in Toronto,
Sudbury, Los Angeles and Vancouver.
1990-2004: Employed by UBC Campus Planning. 1997: UBC President?s Environmental Award. 1998: Diploma Public Sector Management,
University of Victoria.
1999- 2004: UBC Manager of Development Services. 1999-2006: PhD in UBC Resource
Management and Environmental Studies.
1983-2006: West Vancouver resident with wife and daughter.
Joshua W. Chamberlin
Fisheries Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology
Seattle WA
Joshua Chamberlin works as a Fisheries Biologist at the
Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington. Joshua has a Bachelor of Arts in Marine
Studies from Prescott College. He
is currently working on projects regarding juvenile salmon ecology in the
estuary and nearshore habitats of Puget Sound.
Aimee E. Christy
Research Biologist
Pacific Shellfish Institute
Olympia WA
Aimee Christy is a research biologist for Pacific Shellfish
Institute in Olympia, Washington.
Her interests include harmful algal blooms, phytoplankton taxonomy,
community outreach, and particularly stormwater management and the impacts of
land use change on water quality in shellfish growing areas. She received a B.S. in Zoology from the
University of Washington and a M.S. in Environmental Studies at The Evergreen
State College.
Cathryn L. Clarke
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
Cathryn Clarke has a Master?s degree from James Cook
University in Australia. Ms.
Clarke has been working for Fisheries & Oceans Canada for the past three
years and has been actively involved with a variety of invasive species
projects including risk assessment, research and monitoring. Currently she is undertaking an investigation
of invasive biofouling species in subtidal waters of BC in preparation for a
PhD at the University of British Columbia.
Carol Cloen
Natural Resource Scientist
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic Resources Program
Olympia WA
Carol Cloen is the Lead Scientist for Washington DNR?s Habitat
Conservation Plan for state-owned aquatic lands. She is a freshwater biologist,
with research and practical experience in trophic interactions; UV-B?s affect
on amphibians; and riparian restoration. Carol received her BS and MS from the
State University of New York College at Brockport, conducting original research
on the effect of UV-B on the hatching success of the American toad (Bufo
americanus).
Stewart Cohen
Environment Canada
Adaptation & Impacts Research Division
Vancouver British Columbia
Dr. Stewart J. Cohen is a senior researcher with the
Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD), Environment Canada, and an
Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability,
University of British Columbia.
Over a 25-year period, Dr. Cohen has authored more than 70 publications
on climate change impacts and adaptation. He has been a reviewer and lecturer
for various research and training programs in Europe, China and the United
States, and a contributor to the IPCC.
Craig W Collar
Senior Manager - Energy Resource Development
Snohomish County PUD
Everett WA
Senior Manager-Energy Resource Development, Snohomish County
PUD No. 1, Everett, WA. (2006-Present).
Operations Manager, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Fullerton, CA &
Everett, WA. (1990-2006). Nuclear
Submarine Officer, U.S. Navy, San Diego, CA (1985-1990). 20+ years of technical program/project
management experience in a variety of roles. MBA Colorado State University B.S. Mechanical Engineering Montana State University. Registered Professional Engineer.
Tracy K. Collier
Division Director
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental
Conservation Division
Seattle WA
Tracy Collier is the director of the Environmental
Conservation Division of NOAA Fisheries? Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He has over 30 years of experience on
Puget Sounds toxics issues, and more than 100 scientific publications in the
field of aquatic toxicology.
Ed Connor
Aquatic Ecologist
Seattle City Light
Environmental Affairs Division
Seattle WA
Ed Connor received a B.S. in Biology, M.S. in Natural Resource
Science, and Doctorate in Ecology from the University of California. He is the City of Seattle?s Watershed
Coordinator for the Skagit River, and directs the City Light?s ESA Recovery
Program in the Skagit basin. This
program includes land acquisition, habitat restoration, and research projects
for Chinook salmon, bull trout, and steelhead throughout the Skagit watershed.
Michael S. Cooperman
Postdoctoral fellow
University of British Columbia
Centre for Applied Conservation Research
Vancouver British Columbia
Presently working as a post-doctorate fellow under supervision
of Scott Hinch at UBC. I earned my Ph.D. in 2004 from Oregon State University
where I studied the early life ecology of the endangered suckers of Upper
Klamath Lake, and my MS in 1998 from Univeristy of Montana where I studied the
ecology of river-floodplain systems.
Bruce Cousens
Senior Biologist
Georgia Basin Ecological Assessment & Restoration
Society
Nanaimo British Columbia
Bruce Cousens obtained a B.Sc. in zoology and marine biology
and a M.Sc. in fisheries biology and parasitology, followed by nearly 30 years
experience in research, environmental consulting and habitat assessment in BC.
More recently, he has been heavily involved in habitat restoration and
conservation of species at risk, particularly birds, working in the non-profit
sector. He is a member of the Assoc. of Professional Biologists of BC and the
BC College of Applied Biology.
Eric A. Crecelius
Laboratory Fellow
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory
Sequim WA
Eric Crecelius has been studing the sources, transport and
fate of chemicals in coastal waters for over thirty years. He has collaborated
with other marine scientists on studies of historical contamination of Puget
Sound by examination of sediment cores.
Janelle M. Curtis
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of British Columbia
Centre for Applied Conservation Research
Vancouver British Columbia
Janelle Curtis holds an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the
centre for Applied Conservation Research.
John A. Darling
Postdoctoral Fellow
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ecological Exposure Research Division
Cincinnati OH
John Darling is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Ecology
Research Branch of the US Environmental Protection Agency. He is interested in developing
and utilizing genetic tools for study of the introduction, establishment, and
population dynamics of invasive species in coastal marine ecosystems.
Pete Davidson
Bird Studies Canada
Environment Canada (Canadian Wildlife Service)
Delta British Columbia
Pete Davidson obtained both his Bachelors and Masters in
Ecology from the University of East Anglia?s (U.K.) Centre for Ecology,
Evolution and Conservation. He spent nine years working in wildlife
conservation in Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam), before moving to Delta,
British Columbia, in late 2005. He now oversees Bird Studies Canada?s bird
monitoring programs in the province, including the Coastal Waterbird and
Beached Bird Surveys.
Curtis DeGasperi
Lead, Hydrologic WQ Modeling Group
King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
Seattle WA
Curtis DeGasperi has been an engineer with King County
Department of Natural Resources and Parks for the past 5 years developing
integrated water quality models of county lakes, rivers and streams. Mr. DeGasperi previously worked as a
consultant on a variety of water quality modeling studies. Mr. DeGasperi received a Bachelor?s
degree in Biology-Geology from the University of Rochester and a Master?s
degree in Environmental Engineering and Science from the University of
Washington.
Ramona C. de Graaf
MSc Candidate, Marine Biologist
University of British Columbia
Zoology
Richmond British Columbia
Ms. de Graaf has completed a BSc (Hons) and an MSc in marine
biology. Her thesis work and field
experience includes hydrothermal vents zooplanton, seagrass communities,
humpback whales, and forage fish habitats.
Allan Devol
Professor
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Seattle WA
Allan Devol is currently a research professor at the
University of Washington, School of Oceanography. He is a Principal Investigator in the Hood Canal study and
has been involved in the ORCA project since the beginning. His scientific interests include the
study of low oxygen environments, oceanography of the Arctic Ocean, and
sedimentary biogeochemistry.
Richard K. Dewey
VENUS Science Director
University of Victoria
VENUS
Victoria British Columbia
Richard Dewey is the VENUS Project Science Director. Richard
has a B.Sc. in Physics from UVic and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from UBC. His
interests are coastal processes, with a focus on tides, currents, waves, and
turbulence.
Richard S. Dinicola
Ground-Water Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey
Washington Water Science Center
Tacoma WA
Mr. Dinicola is the leader for the Urbanization Task of the
USGS Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound Project. His work in the Puget Sound basin
has focused on urbanization effects on rainfall-runoff processes and
contaminant fate and transport in coastal ground water.
Paul A. Dinnel
Marine Scientist
Western Washington University
Shannon Point Marine Center
Anacortes WA
Paul Dinnel is a specialist in the areas of marine ecology and
toxicology. Paul?s experience
includes 18 years at the University of Washington as a Research Scientist and 8
years as a Marine Scientist at Western Washington University?s Shannon Point
Marine Center in Anacortes. Paul
has authored over 100 scientific technical reports and publications and written
EPA and ASTM protocols for two types of sea urchin bioassays, as well as
co-authored a trawl protocol for Puget Sound.
Jeffrey S. Dismukes
Marine Steward
San Juan County
Marine Resources Committee
Bellingham WA
Jeffrey Dismukes received a Masters of Science in
Environmental Economics from Florida International University with thesis
concentration in ?Sustainable Resource Extraction as Revenue Source for Third
World National Parks?. Mr.
Dismukes consulted on several park and preserve managemnt projects until taking
a full time position as research assistant at the USGS Center for Coastal and
Watershed Studies in Florida where he worked on studies of coastal processes
and mangrove ecosystems. He is
currently working towards his PhD in Environmental Sciences while also serving
as a Marine Research Steward for the San Juan County Marine Resources
Committee.
Jamie Donatuto
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Office of Planning and Community Development
La Conner WA
Ms. Donatuto has been working for the Swinomish Tribe since
2000. She writes, enacts and
manages several environmental health-based investigations, including the
Bioaccumulative Toxics In Native American Shellfish Project. She launched the Swinomish Environmental
Education Program, and works extensively with community education and outreach
projects. She is a Ph.D. candidate
at the University of British Columbia, where her research focuses on
redesigning human health risk assessments to employ socio-cultural factors.
Cinde R. Donoghue
Senior Planner
Thurston County
Olympia WA
Cinde R Donoghue is a senior planner in Thurston County?s long
range planning program. She
previously worked at WA Dept. of Ecology where she developed guidance for
updating SMPs under the recently adopted state shoreline guidelines. She has worked for over 12 years as a
coastal environmental consultant and received her Ph.D. in Environmental
Science, Master of Urban and Environmental Planning and Master of Environmental
Science at University of Virginia
Tanis L. Douglas
Bowker Creek Initiative Coordinator
Capital Regional District
Scientific Programs
Victoria British Columbia
Tanis Douglas is a restoration ecologist, who has supervised
watershed and terrestrial restoration projects funded by the BC provincial
government. She has also completed various strategic-level ecological
restoration and management projects with her own company, Fernhill Consulting.
Currently, Tanis is also the new part-time Bowker Creek Initiative Coordinator,
working for the Capital Regional District and with the three municipalities and
various other groups in the Bowker Creek watershed.
Pete R. Dowty
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Olympia WA
Pete Dowty is currently focusing on eelgrass monitoring and
ecology with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. His previous
experience includes positions with the Puget Sound Action Team and the
Skokomish Department of Natural Resources. His post-doctoral work focused on modeling of terrestrial
primary production, fuel loading and biomass burning emissions. His education
includes the remote sensing of fires (M.S.) and biophysical modeling in
southern African savannas (PhD), both at the University of Virginia.
Jim Dumont
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.
Surrey British Columbia
Mr. Dumont has 30 years of experience in the field of Water Resources,
including all phases of planning, design and construction. Jim has been a leading proponent of
continuous simulation based designs in western Canada for the past 20 years Jim has been invited to speak at
several conferences and provide training seminars for the Association of
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC.
Cynthia D. Durance
Precision Identification
Vancouver British Columbia
Ms. Durance studied eelgrass ecology and restoration methods
at the University of British Columbia from 1981 to 1989. Since that time she has remained an
active member of the seagrass research community, studying and teaching
eelgrass ecology, developing successful eelgrass transplant methodologies, and
participating in international conferences and workshops. She is a founding and executive member
of the World Seagrass Association, scientific advisor to the Seagrass
Conservation Working Group, and is the Canadian Editor and Member at Large for
the Pacific Estuarine Research Society.
Margaret E. Dutch
Senior Benthic Ecologist
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental Assessment Program
Olympia WA
Margaret Dutch is a senior benthic ecologist for the
Washington State Department of Ecology?s Coastal and Estuarine Assessment Unit,
working as a member of the unit?s Marine Sediment Monitoring Team (MSMT) since
1992 conducting the Sediment Component of the Puget Sound Assessment and
Monitoring Program (PSAMP). Ms Dutch received her Master of Science degree at
the University of Hawaii, and worked previously on marine sediment monitoring
programs in New England, Hawaii and San Francisco.
Theresa Duynstee
Project Coordinator
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Policy and Planning
Burnaby British Columbia
Ian J. Dyck
Oceanographic Engineer
Worley Parsons Komex
Marine Department
Victoria British Columbia
Mr. Dyck is an oceanographic engineer with over 7 years of
professional experience in the field.
He is responsible for the management of a variety of projects including
current studies, ROV deployment, construction supervision, scientific diving,
and environmental sampling. Mr.
Dyck also brings extensive experience in the design of oceanographic
characterization programs, dilution modeling, marine geophysics and outfall
design. During the course of his
career he has had wide-ranging interaction with local, provincial, and federal
regulators with respect to marine and freshwater discharges.
Ann Eissinger
Wildlife Biologist
Nahkeeta Northwest
Bow WA
Professional Wildlife Biologist Ann Eissinger owns Nahkeeta
Northwest Wildlife Services in Bow, Washington. Over twenty years, Ann has worked as researcher, consultant,
planning advisor, educator and conservationist. She is currently researching
Great Blue Heron habitat relationships, colony dynamics and population changes. Ms Eissinger is also a member of the
transboundary Heron Working Group, Coordinator for the European Green Crab
Volunteer Monitoring Program and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Trust?s
Chuckanut Biodiversity Project.
Christopher Ellings
Fish Biologist
Nisqually NWR & Ducks Unlimited
Olympia WA
Christopher Ellings has a B.S. in Fisheries from Humboldt
State University in Arcata, California and a Master?s in Environmental Studies
from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Chris is in his third year researching
the fish ecology of the Nisqually River, Estuary, and Nearshore. He is employed through a cooperative
agreement between Ducks Unlimited and the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
Joel K. Elliott
Associate Professor
University of Puget Sound
Biology
Tacoma WA
Joel Elliott is an Associate Professor in the Biology
department at the University of Puget Sound. He has been using underwater videography, GPS and GIS
technologies to study the distribution and abundance of organisms in a variety
of habitats. Current studies are
on factors influencing the distribution and abundance of eelgrass beds and
bacterial mats in Puget Sound.
Other projects include the effects of high hydrogen sulfide levels on
benthic biodiversity and the effects of introduced species on marine
communities.
John E. Elliott
Research Scientist
Environment Canada
Science & Technology Branch
Delta British Columbia
John Elliott is a Research Scientist with the Science &
Technology Branch of Environment Canada and is located at the Pacific Wildlife
Research Centre in Delta, BC. His
research focuses on investigating the exposure and effects of environmental
contaminants on wildlife, particularly predatory species of birds and
mammals. He has published over 150
papers and reports. He is also an
adjunct professor at both University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser
University, where he regularly lectures and supervises graduate students.
Tim Essington
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Tim Essington is an Assistant professor at the University of
Washington
Joseph R. Evenson
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia WA
Joseph Evenson is a biologist with Washington Department of
Fish & Wildlife for the Marine Bird and Mammal Component of PSAMP. He received his B.S. from the Evergreen
State College in 1990. He worked
as a research biologist with Cascadia Research 1989-95, with an emphasis on
marine mammals. Since 1994 he has
served in his current position with WDFW where he has been involved with,
and/or coordinated, monitoring studies on marine birds and mammals.
Blake E. Feist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Blake Feist has been an ecologist at the Northwest Fisheries
Science Center (NOAA-NMFS) since 1999.
His research focuses on two general areas: the relationship between fish
populations and their terrestrial/estuarine habitat; and the interaction
between non-indigenous species and estuarine food webs and ecosystems. He applies the principles of landscape
ecology for most of his research, but he is also interested in the effects of
climate, spatio-temporal scaling, and anthropogenic influences on ecosystems.
Kathy Fletcher
Executive Director
People For Puget Sound
Seattle WA
Kathy Fletcher is founder and executive director of People For
Puget Sound, a regional citizens? organization since 1991, and represented the
environmental community on the Governor?s Puget Sound Partnership. She chaired
the original Puget Sound Water Quality Authority from 1985-1990. She has taught
environmental policy and non-profit management courses at the University of
Washington and is a native of the Puget Sound region.
Melinda Fohn
Environmental Health Specialist
Kitsap County Health District
Water Quality Program
Bremerton WA
Melinda has a B.S. in Bacteriology and Public Health. After 7 years of environmental
monitoring for the City of Bremerton, she joined the Kitsap County Health
District in 2001. She has
performed investigations of fecal pollution sources and corrections of
identified sources in shorelines, including Chico Bay, Kitsap Lake and Hood
Canal, and has most recently been applying these investigation techniques to
the commercial area of Silverdale, Washington.
Keith Folkerts
Natural Resources Coordinator
Kitsap County
Community Development
Port Orchard WA
Keith Folkerts has worked for Kitsap County for the past 13
years in a variety of roles related to watershed planning, habitat protection,
water resources management and salmon recovery. Keith earned a B.S. from the US Naval Academy in 1988.
Stef J. Frenzl
Marine Resources Steward
Snohomish County
Public Works Surface Water Management
Everett WA
Stef Frenzl serves as the Lead Staff to the Snohomish County
Marine Resources Committee. He has over 9 years experience in habitat
monitoring, project management, land protection, partnership building and
volunteer coordination. He?s
worked to for non-profit organizations, federal agencies, universities and
local governments. Stef holds a B.S. in biology and zoology at Colorado State
University, serves as a WSU Beach Watcher, and loves to look for critters on
the beach.
Kurt L. Fresh
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Kurt L. Fresh works as a Fisheries Research Biologist for NOAA
Fisheries?, Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington. Most of Kurt?s career has focused on
studying the life history and ecology of juvenile salmon in the riverine, lake,
and estuarine habitats of Washington.
At NMFS, Kurt is working on studying how juvenile salmon use estuarine
and nearshore habitats in Puget Sound (e.g., what habitats are used and when
fish are present)in order to help develop protection and restoration strategies
supporting salmon recovery efforts in Puget Sound. Kurt received a Masters of
Science from the University of Washington and undergraduate degree from the
University of the Pacific.
Anthony O. Gabriel
Professor and Director
Central Washington University
Center for Spatial Information
Ellensburg WA
Anthony Gabriel is a professor in the Geography and Land
Studies Department at Central Washington University and is also Co-Director of
the Resource Management Graduate Program and Director of the Center for Spatial
Information. He has had over 14 years of teaching experience at programs in
Wisconsin, Washington and Canada. His research focuses on ecological
characterization and restoration of aquatic and shoreline systems. He is
continuing to develop, and test techniques that apply results of biophysical
characterizations to shoreline, wetland and watershed management.
Jeffrey Gaeckle
Seagrass Ecologist
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Olympia WA
Jeff dissertation focused on eelgrass (Zostera marina) ecology and restoration. Jeff has worked on
numerous eelgrass restoration and monitoring projects throughout the
northeastern US and has traveled the world monitoring seagrass distribution and
status for SeagrassNet, a global seagrass monitoring project. Jeff joined the
Washington State Department of Natural Resources in 2006 as a seagrass
ecologist for the Submerged Vegetation Monitoring Project.
Michael J. Gallagher
PBT Coordinator
Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia WA
Chris Garrett
University of Victoria
Physics and Astronomy
Victoria British Columbia
Lansdowne Professor of Ocean Physics, UVic. Former member of
the BC/WA Marine Science Panel.
Heidi Gartner
Co-Op Student
University of Victoria
Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station
Nanaimo BC
Joseph K. Gaydos
Wildlife Veterinarian and Regional Director
SeaDoc Society
UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
Eastsound WA
Joe Gaydos is a wildlife veterinarian and Regional Director of
the SeaDoc Society: a marine ecosystem health program (www.seadocsociety.org).
He is interested in wildlife diseases and marine conservation and lives on
Orcas Island with his wife and two girls where they like to ride bikes, camp,
kayak, walk on the beach and watch wildlife.
Douglas A. George
Oceanographer
U.S. Geological Survey
Coastal and Marine Geology
Santa Cruz CA
Douglas George received his BS in oceanography from Humboldt
State University in 1999, his MS in journalism from Columbia University in 2001
and his MS in oceanography from Dalhousie University in 2003. Before joining
the USGS in 2004, he worked for the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academy
of Science assisting in policy analysis of restoring and protecting coastal
Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. His research interests include coastal
processes, sediment transport and estuary restoration.
Leah George-Wilson
Chief
Tsleil-Waututh Nation
North Vancouver BC
Chief Leah George-Wilson is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh
Nation, located in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. Chief George-Wilson was the
first female to be elected Chief by the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation
(2001-2003), and is currently serving her second term (2005-2007). Chief
George-Wilson has held various positions prior to her election. Most notable
include: the Director of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Treaty, Lands and Resources
Department, a key member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation?s negotiating team
in the BC Treaty Process, Self-Government Co-ordinator and community advocate.
Chief George-Wilson frequently speaks on issues related to First Nations
governance to various school groups, ranging from elementary to post secondary.
She possesses a degree in anthropology from Simon Fraser University and is the
recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Award by Leadership Vancouver. She is a
board member for the Legal Services Society, the Chief Dan George Centre,
Fraser Basin Council, Georgia Basin Council, as well as Ecotrust Canada. In
2004, she was elected to serve as Co-Chair of the First Nations Summit, which
is the organization that represents First Nations in the BC Treaty Process.
Chief George-Wilson has been happily married for 13 years, and has a beautiful daughter.
Richard A. Gersib
Watershed Program Manager
Washington State Department of Transportation
Olympia WA
Richard Gersib is a Professional Wetland Scientist and
Certified Wildlife Biologist that makes his home in Olympia, Washington. He currently manages the Watershed
Management Program at the Washington State Department of Transportation and
leads an interdisciplinary technical team that is developing and refining
watershed-based tools for mitigating transportation impacts.
Kirsten Gilardi
Executive Director
SeaDoc Society
UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
Davis CA
Kirsten Gilardi, DVM, is Executive Director of the SeaDoc
Society and Director of Marine Programs at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center,
Davis, CA.
Linda A. Gilkeson
Head, State of Environment Reporting Unit
British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Victoria British Columbia
Dr. Linda Gilkeson has been head of the State of Environment
Reporting Unit with the BC provicinal environment ministry since 2002.
Frank A. Gobas
Professor
Simon Fraser University
Resource & Environmental management
Burnaby British Columbia
Dr. Frank Gobas is an environmental toxicologist and chemist
interested in the food-web transfer of chemical contaminants.
Fred A. Goetz
Fish Biologist
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Seattle District
Seattle WA
Fred has studied bull trout for most of his professional
career. He works for the Corps of
Engineers on habitat restoration projects including the Puget Sound Nearshore
Ecosystem Restoration Project. He
is also a doctoral student at the University of Washington where he is studying
marine migrations of cutthroat, steelhead, resident Chinook salmon, and bull
trout.
Todd Golumbia
Ecologist
Parks Canada
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Sidney British Columbia
MSc Forest Ecology (UBC), BSc Biology (U of S)
Todd has worked at several National Parks across western
Canada as an ecologist and a park warden since 1982. The range of work as a
park ecologist is multi-faceted, ranging across disciplines of both natural and
social sciences and across a range of freshwater, marine and terrestrial
ecosystems. Todd is currently working as the ecologist for Gulf Islands
National Park Reserve. He has been involved in this venture since park
establishment in 2003. This move to Canada?s Mediterranean follows 10 years in
another paradise, working on the Haida Gwaii Archipelago (Queen Charlotte
Islands) as the ecologist for Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida
Heritage Site.
Thomas P. Good
Research Fishery Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Conservation Biology
Division
Seattle WA
Tom Good is a Research Fishery Biologist for NOAA Fisheries in
Seattle, WA, where he is a member of the Risk Assessment Team for the recovery
of threatend and endangered Pacific salmon. He conducts research on avian
predation on juvenile salmonids, Pacific salmon recovery science, and
seabird-fishery interactions, including the impact of derelict fishing gear on
marine fauna.
Brian A. Grantham
Puget Sound Science and Policy Representative
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental Assessment Program
Olympia WA
Brian Grantham is a marine ecologist with the Washington State
Department of Ecology. He has a B.Sc. in Ecology from the University of
Manitoba and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Stanford University. He is a
broadly trained ecologist, with 15 years experience in marine ecosystems,
including 9 years developing and conducting nearshore oceanographic monitoring
programs. Brian has worked extensively on larval transport and recruitment and
the dynamics of intertidal communities, as well as zooplankton distributions,
marine reserve theory, and coastal hypoxia.
Correigh M. Greene
Research Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Correigh Greene is a biologist in the Watersheds Program at
the Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
He studies population dynamics and life history variation of salmonid
populations. His methods combine modeling efforts, statistical analyses of time
series population data, and empirical studies of ecology and behavior at
juvenile life history stages in salmon.
H. Gary Greene
Director
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Center for Habitat Studies
Moss Landing CA
Marine geologist recently retired from teaching at Moss
Landing Marine Labs and with over 35 years of mapping the seafloor. Presently
working on marine benthich habitat characterization of the San Juan Islands and
Alaska.
Cheryl L. Greengrove
Associate Professor & Interim Director IAS
University of Washington, Tacoma
Environmental Science
Tacoma WA
Cheryl Greengrove is Associate Professor of Geoscience in the
Environmental Science Program at University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT) and
Interim Director for Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UWT. She is a physical oceanographer
presently working with biological, chemical and geological oceanographers on
studying Harmful Algal Blooms in Puget Sound and estuarine processes in Barkley
and Clayoquot Sounds on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Jake L. Gregg
Fisheries Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Nordland WA
Masters Degree in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the
University of Washington 2003.
Early live histories of marine fish and fisheries ecology are main
interests. Currently culturing
pathogen free marine fish for disease ecology studies at the Marrowstone Marine
Field Station.
Thomas H. Gries
Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia WA
The author has been involved in developing and implementing
both technical and policy elements of Washington State?s sediment management
programs for over fifteen years.
He believes that sediment management decisions would be facilitated by
a) increasing public awareness of the importance of sediment quality, b) using
innovative technical approaches and tools to evaluate sediment quality, b)
developing new and clarifying existing sediment policies, and c) leveraging
untapped resources.
Eric E. Grossman
Geologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Santa Cruz CA
Dr. Eric Grossman is a research geologist with the US
Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program in Santa Cruz, California.
His research focuses on Quaternary coastal and marine geology, seafloor
mapping, coastal evolution, sea level and climate change, coral reef geology,
and habitat change in deltaic and eelgrass environments. Eric received his
Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Hawaii and his B.A. from the University
of California Berkeley.
Michael P. Hannam
Student
University of Washington
Botanic Gardens, CFR
Seattle WA
Michael Hannam was born in Newport News, VA. He earned a Bachelors of Science in
Biology from the University of Notre Dame. Michael has worked as an Aquatic Land Manager and Nearshore
Research Technician for the Washington Department of Natural Resources, and
most recently as a project manager for a joint University of Puget Sound, South
Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group SAV mapping project. He is currently pursuing a MS from the
University of Washington.
Brad Hanson
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Brad Hanson is a marine mammal ecologist with the NWFSC. He is currently studying foraging and
habitat use of southern resident killer whales as well as assessing the health
of harbor and Dall?s porpoises by determining toxic chemical levels and
pathways, and pathogens in these species in the Pacific Northwest.
F. J. Hardy
Toxicologist
Washington State Department of Health
Office of Environmental Health Assessments
Olympia WA
Joan Hardy is a toxicologist with Washington Department of
Health. She received a MS and PhD
from the University of Washington.
Recent projects include work on toxic cyanobacteria, aquatic herbicides,
and lead and arsenic in school soils.
Gary Palcisko is a health assessor with Washington Department of Health.
He received a MS from the University of Washington and BS from University of
North Carolina, Charlotte. Recent
projects include evaluating exposure at a naturally-occurring asbestos site and
developing a Puget Sound geoduck sampling protocol.
Jodi N. Harney
Marine Geologist
Coastal and Ocean Resources Inc.
Sidney British Columbia
Jodi Harney is a coastal and marine geologist with Coastal and
Ocean Resources in Sidney, BC. She holds degrees in biology (B.S., University
of Central Florida, 1993), marine science (M.S., University of South Florida,
1996), and geology (Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 2000). Her multidisciplinary
research involves the study of benthic habitats, sediment dynamics, and habitat
capability modeling for coastal species of interest.
John R. Harper
Marine Geologist
Coastal and Ocean Resources Inc.
Sidney British Columbia
John Harper is a coastal geomorphologist with Coastal &
Ocean Resources Inc. of Sidney, BC. He holds a Ph.D. in Marine Science from LSU
and has over 25 years of research experience in the Pacific Northwest. Dr.
Harper is an originator of the ShoreZone habitat mapping system that has been
applied to over 75,000 km of coastline (Washington, BC, Alaska) and continues to
be active in nearshore habitat research.
David M. Hartley
Principal Hydrologist
Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Inc.
Seattle WA
Dr. Hartley has over 25 years of research and applied
experience in hydrology, hydraulics, erosion studies, and modeling of watershed
processes. He joined the staff of Northwest Hydraulic Consultants in 2002 and
was named a principal in 2004. He
currently conducts and manages projects to meet stormwater and natural resource
management goals. Prior to joining
nhc, Dr. Hartley was the lead hydrologist for the King County, Washington,
Department Of Natural Resources. Dr. Hartley has over 20 years of experience
analyzing and solving ecological and flooding problems in natural, manmade, and
hybrid drainage systems using a variety of statistical methods, models, and GIS
tools.
Doug E. Hay
Scientist Emeritus
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo
Nanaimo British Columbia
Research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific
Biological Station, Nanaimo BC (1977-2005) and Professor, Pukyong National
University, Pusan, Korea (2005-2007).
Research has focussed on ecology and biology of small pelagic fishes.
Nancy E. Helm
Washington State and Canada Air Quality Liaison
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Air, Waste and Toxics
Seattle WA
Jennifer Hennesey
State of Washington
Department of Ecology
Lacey WA
David Henry
Padilla Bay NERR Watershed Outreach Coordinator
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Mount Vernon WA
David Henry holds a M.Ed. from WWU in Environmental/Science
Education and has been the Padilla Bay NERR Watershed Outreach Coordinator and
for the past 12 years. He has
worked at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Reserve in Southwest Florida, as
an employee and as a consultant for Snohomish County Surface Water Management.
He has completed biological research projects for the National Park Service,
the Environmental Protection Agency, and in 1990 was a fisheries observer for
the National Marine Fisheries Service for a 119-day study at sea on fishing
catches and practices of Taiwanese driftnet fishermen.
Leif-Matthias J. Herborg
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
I obtained my degree in Marine Biology at the University of
Bangor (Great Britain), and then researched my PhD into the ecology of Chinese
mitten crabs at the University of Newcastle under the supervision of Prof. Tony
Clare and Matt Bentley. This was followed by a postdoc under Prof. Hugh
MacIsaac and David Lodge at the Great Lakes Research Institute in Windsor,
Ontario. Since October 2006 I am working as a postdoc at DFO Nanaimo.
Paul K. Hershberger
U.S. Geological Survey
Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Nordland WA
Dr. Paul Hershberger is the Station Leader and a Research
Fishery Biologist at the Marrowstone Marine Field Station where he directs the
fish health research activities aimed at understanding the ecological effects
of infectious and parasitic diseases on wild, marine fishes. He is also a member of the Affiliate
Faculty at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of
Washington.
Russell P. Herwig
Research Associate Professor
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Russ Herwig is a Research Associate Professor in the University
of Washington (UW) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. For the past six years, Jeff Cordell
and he have led a UW team that is investigating ballast water. The UW group is analyzing samples
of ballast water in ships that enter Puget Sound. In addition, they are evaluating the efficacies of potential
ballast water treatment systems in small bench scale to full shipboard tests.
Curtis Hinman
Associate Professor, Watershed Ecologist
Washington State University
Extension
Tacoma WA
Curtis Hinman is Associate Professor with Washington State
University Extension. He directs
water resource programs for WSU Extension in Pierce County to protect water
quality and aquatic habitat in Puget Sound basin. Mr. Hinman is the author of the ?Low Impact Development
Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound? and is researching, designing and
monitoring various LID strategies applicable in western Washington. Mr. Hinman earned a B.S. degree in
Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from University of California
Davis. He holds a Masters of
Science degree with a concentration in stream ecology and watershed management
from the Yale University.
Steve R. Hinton
Director of Habitat Restoration
Skagit River System Cooperative
La Conner Wa
Since 2000 Steve Hinton has worked as The Director of Habitat
Restoration for the Skagit River System Cooperative, a natural resource
management agency working on behalf of the Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish Indian
communities, based in LaConnor, Washington. He is responsible for the
restoration programs and projects conducted by the tribal cooperative including
planning, budgeting, implementing, coordinating and supervising 7 employees and
a yearly operating budget of more than $1.5 million. Steve also has also served
as Program Director for the cooperative from 2003-2006 during which time he
provided oversight to 5 Departments and 32 employees. Prior to joining the
Cooperative he was Senior Habitat Biologist for Snohomish County, Washington,
and field coordinator for Oregon Trout. Steve has also worked as a private
consultant providing research, planning and coordination to conservation
projects.
Gregory Hood
Senior Restoration Ecologist
Skagit River System Cooperative
La Conner WA
Dr. Hood studies estuarine ecology and geomorphology for the
Skagit River System Cooperative, a natural resources management cooperative
between the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle Tribes. He is also involved in the development, design, and
monitoring of estuarine habitat restoration projects.
Julie D. Horowitz
Graduate Student
University of Washington
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seattle WA
Julie Horowitz is a graduate student in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Her
primary research interests relate to urban coastal ecosystem impacts,
particularly water quality in estuarine systems. She received a B.A. in Aquatic
Ecology from Hampshire College in 2001.
Jon P. Houghton
Senior Marine Biologist
Pentec Environmental/Hart Crowser, Inc.
Edmonds WA
Dr. Jon Houghton, is a Senior Marine Biologist at Pentec
Environmental with 35 years of research experience in nearshore and estuarine
ecosystems of the Pacific Coast.
He has directed and conducted a large number of studies of estuarine
vegetation, fish, and benthos. In
recent years, he has directed biological design of several large (5-acre to
300-acre) projects that have used a variety of approaches to enhance and
restore damaged marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Kim Houghton
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Surrey British Columbia
Kim Houghton is field biologist for the BC Coastal office of
Ducks Unlimited Canada where she has been involved with wintering waterfowl
research, wetland conservation and invasive species management. Her academic background includes a
degree in Environmental Engineering from BCIT and a diploma in Fish and
Wildlife also from BCIT.
Robert O. Hudson
Research Hydrologist
British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range
Research
Nanaimo British Columbia
Ph.D. from UBC in Forest Hydrology 1995 in water quality
modeling. 20 years of experience in field-based hydrology research and
consulting in BC. Adjunct professor in Forest Resource Management, Faculty of
Forestry at UBC. Currently project leader of FSP funded research at Russell
Creek, Northwest Vancouver Island studying sediment budgets and hydrology model
development for rain-on-snow environments.
Zachary Hughes
University of Washington
Friday Harbor WA
Zachary Hughes is a newly graduated student from the
University of Washington, Tacoma, Environmental Science Program. He also has his certification in
Restoration Ecology from the Restoration Ecology Network program at University
of Washington.
Daniel A. Hull
Director
Nisqually Reach Nature Center
Olympia WA
Daniel Hull has been environmental educator for the last 15
years working for several different agencies including USFWS, USFS, NPS. He is
the current Director of NRNC and has been for the last 3 years. He has a general Degree in natural
science and minor in communication from Hocking College Ohio.
Chief Gibby Jacob
Chief
Squamish Nation
Intergovernmental Relations, Natural Resources, &
Revenue
North Vancouver British Columbia
Chief Gibby Jacob, whose ancestral name is K?keltn siy?m,
carries the title of hereditary Chief and is a member of the Squamish Nation
located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Chief Jacob has been an elected Councilor, since December
1981 serving seven consecutive four-year terms. Chief Jacob is the Executive Operating Officer of
Intergovernmental Relations, Natural Resources, and Revenue for the Squamish
Nation and is responsible for overseeing four departments: Project Negotiation & Development;
Business Revenue & Services; Environmental & Natural Resources; and
Land Management.
Chief Jacob plays an instrumental role within the Squamish
Nation as:
? Chief Negotiator – this is a
process to produce modern day treaties between First Nations and the Province
of British Columbia, the Squamish Nation treaty negotiation process was
initiated in September 1992.
? Political spokesperson –
communicating with and addressing the local media, and informing the 3,700 members
of the Squamish Nation.
? Chairperson for the Land & Resource
Sub-committee – this is a subcommittee of the Squamish Nation Main Treaty
Committee with a mandate including environmental issues, renewable and
non-renewable resources, assertion of rights and title within the Squamish
Nation traditional territories, and land development opportunities.
? Chairperson of Land Issues &
Environmental Committee – with a mandate that includes the Capilano
Master Plan, BC Rail properties, Squamish Estuary, and Porteau Cove lands,
forestry, and ?Run of the River? micro-hydro project to name just a few of
their ongoing projects and initiatives.
? Intergovernmental relations –
liaising and relationship building with all levels of government including
Municipal, Regional, Provincial, Federal, and First Nation?s and First Nation
organizations.
Other
organizational involvement includes:
? Founding Director of EAGLE (Environmental
Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education);
? Board of Directors for the Vancouver 2010
Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for both the Squamish Nation and the
Lil?wat Nation;
? Co-chair of the British Columbia
Aboriginal Fisheries Commission – Coastal Region for four years;
? Former Representative of Canada for the
Pacific Salmon Commission for a two year term; and
? Canadian Co-chair of the Treaty of
Indigenous Peoples International (TIPI) with membership from British Columbia,
Washington State, Hawaii, and Australia.
Glen Jamieson
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
Research scientist with DFO for many years, now focusing on
invasive species and the development of approaches to optimally manage marine
ecosystems.
Mark R. S. Johannes
Golder Associates Ltd.
Burnaby British Columbia
Dr. Mark Johannes has been actively working on climate
variation and change for the past 10 years and salmon and salmonids for 20
years. From 2002 to present, Mark
has been the national coordinator on climate variation and change working with
Fisheries and Oceans and Natural Resources Canada and is engaged in field
related work on climate. He has
worked across Canada and actively participated in national dialogue on
fisheries and aquatic issues. Mark is also senior biologist and Environmental
Assessment Leader for Golder Associates Ltd. in Vancouver and Science Advisor
to Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council and visiting Scientist at
University of Victoria. He has
over 23 years of experience in areas of aquatic, fisheries and water resources
and community and First Nation consultation.
Jim Johannessen
Principal Geologist
Coastal Geologic Services
Bellingham WA
Jim Johannessen of Coastal Geologic Services provides
consulting services on coastal, estuarine and bluff processes and shoreline
management in the Pacific Northwest. Jim is a Licensed Engineering Geologist
and has a MS degree from Western Washington Univ. He started Coastal Geologic
Services in 1993 after working for other consulting firms on Puget Sound and
Alaska coastal projects. He performs beach and nearshore assessments, and
designs gravel beach nourishment and beach restoration projects. Jim has
monitored Puget Sound beach projects and run educational programs in all Puget
Sound and Straits counties to improve our understanding of coastal processes
and interactions of coastal modifications and nearshore habitats.
Sophia C. Johannessen
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney British Columbia
Sophie Johannessen is a chemical oceanographer at the
Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, B.C.
Robert K. Johnston
Scientist
U.S. Navy
Marine Environmental Support Office - NW
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Bremerton WA
Dr. Johnston is a Senior Scientist with the Navy?s Marine
Environmental Support Office, where he specializes in providing technical
assistance on marine pollution and ecological risk assessment issues to Navy
activities. He is currently detailed to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard where he
serves as Technical Coordinator for Project ENVVEST, a watershed-based,
multi-agency cooperative project aimed at developing TMDLs for priority
constituents and assessing ecological risks for Sinclair and Dyes Inlets in Puget
Sound, WA.
Trevor G. Jones
Graduate Student
University of British Columbia
Forest Resource Management
Vancouver British Columbia
Trevor Jones is a first year MSc student in the Department of
Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia.
Anna N. Kagley
Fisheries Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology
Seattle WA
My research involves laboratory and field projects involving
juvenile salmon. Most of my time is devoted helping to understand salmon
habitat use through field monitoring and telemetry. Laboratory techniques
include surgical tagging and necropsy of salmonids. Often my responsibilities
often include animal husbandry tasks such as feeding and caring for salmonids,
and disease prevention and identification. My field experience includes various
fishing techniques, boat handling skills, and fish and invertebrate collection
and identification.
Lisa Kaufman
Natural Resource Specialist 2
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Sedro Woolley WA
Lisa Kaufman is the Restoration Manager for DNR?s Orca Straits
region. She is currently managing
several creosote removal projects and working with several partner
organizations.
Mitsuhiro Kawase
Associate Professor
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Seattle WA
Physical oceanographer with expertise on geophysical fluid
dynamics and numerical modeling, and specializing on the dynamics of fjord
circulation.
Patricia L. Keen
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia
Institute Resources Environment Sustainability
Vancouver British Columbia
Patricia is completing her PhD studies at the University of
British Columbia as collaboration between the Institute for Resources,
Environment and Sustainability, Health Canada and the University of Kansas at
Lawrence. Patricia completed her
masters degree in 2002 at the same UBC institute under the supervision of Dr.
Ken Hall. Prior to pursuing
graduate studies, she was employed for over ten years with the former BC
Research Inc.
Tarang Khangaonkar
Manager, Coastal and Water Resources Modeling
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory
Seattle WA
Dr. Khangaonkar is a Research Leader and Manager of the Water
Resources Modeling Group at Battelle?s Marine Sciences Laboratory. He provides senior leadership to
Battelle? activities in numerical modeling studies related to water quality,
hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and fate and transport analysis. He has 18
years of experience with various types of models capable of circulation, toxics
fate and transport, and water quality kinetics. Dr. Khangaonkar is currently
managing the development and application high resolution 3-D finite element
hydrodynamics and transport models for feasibility assessment and design of
alternatives for restoring natural estuarine functions to coastal marshlands.
Teri L. King
Marine Water Quality Specialist
University of Washington
Washington Sea Grant Program
Shelton WA
Teri King is a marine water quality specialist with the
Washington Sea Grant Program working on shellfish bed restoration and septic
system education in Puget Sound for the past 16 years.
Jan Kirkby
Landscape Ecologist
Environment Canada (Canadian Wildlife Service)
Delta BC
Terrie Klinger
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
School of Marine Affairs
Seattle WA
Terrie Klinger is Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs at the
University of Washington, chair of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Advisory Council, and a member of the San Juan County Marine Resources
Committee.
Rob Knight
Co-Leader
Community Mapping Network
Surrey British Columbia
Rob Knight works for the British Columbia Ministry of
Environment as an Ecosystems Biologist in the Lower Mainland Region. He has 18
years experience in fresh water fisheries biology followed by over 10 years
working closely with NGOs and local governments on stewardship activities. He
is the one of the founders of the not for profit, Community Mapping Network in
1996/97.
Nicholas M. Komick
Masters Student
University of Victoria
Department of Geography
Victoria British Columbia
Nicholas Komick is a Masters student at the University of Victoria
with a research focus on Oceanographic Remote Sensing. He entered the program following
several years of working as a software developer and completing a Bacholers
degree in Geography at the University of Victoria. Nicholas?s current research is born out of the desire to
utilize computers to increase our understanding of our enivornment and
anthropogenic impacts on it.
John Konovsky
Environmental Program Manager
Squaxin Island Tribe
Natural Resources Department
Shelton WA
John Konovsky, BA Earlham College and MS Washington State
University, is a biologist and environmental program manager for the Squaxin
Island Tribe Natural Resources Department. He has worked for over 13 years on water quality and streamflow
issues in Washington State.
Kirk L. Krueger
Research Scientist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Habitat Program
Olympia WA
Kirk Krueger is a research scientist with the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife, Habitat Program, Salmon and Steelhead Habitat
Inventory and Assessment Project
Jessica R. Lacy
Research Oceanographer
U.S. Geological Survey
Coastal and Marine Geology
Santa Cruz CA
Jessie Lacy is a physical oceanographer in the Coastal and
Marine Geology Team of the US Geological Survey. She conducts research in
hydrodynamics and sediment transport in estuaries and coastal waters. Her
research interests include the influence of complex bathymetry on circulation
and mixing; the interaction of bedforms, waves and currents, and sediment
transport; interaction between aquatic vegetation and hydrodynamics; and
understanding the role of the physical environment in defining habitat function
in aquatic systems.
Russell C. Ladley
Resource Protection Manager
Puyallup Tribe of Indians
Fisheries Division
Puyallup WA
Russ Ladley is a fisheries biologist with the Puyallup Indian
Tribe and works on a variety of habitat related issues.
Cathy A. Laetz
Research Oceanographer
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Cathy has worked as a research oceanographer at the Northwest
Fisheries Science Center since 2001.
Her current research involves investigating the effects of pollutants on
the biology and ecology of marine and anadromous fish. She holds a M.S. in Marine
Environmental Science (State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001) and a
B.S. in Biological Oceanography (University of Washington, 1996).
Monique M. Lance
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Wildlife Science
Tacoma WA
Monique Lance is a Fish and Wildlife Biologist for Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Science division. Her research throughout Puget Sound and
along the outer coast of Washington for the past 13 years has focused on diet
and foraging ecology of seabirds and marine mammals. Her interests include predator prey relationships, food
chain dynamics, marine policy, and ecosystem health.
Wayne G. Landis
Director
Huxley College of the Environment
Institute of Environmental Toxicology
Bellingham WA
Wayne G. Landis is the director of the Institute of
Environmental Toxicology at Western Washington University?s Huxley College of
the Environment. His background is in environmental toxicology, risk assessment
and the application of population biology to decision making. He has developed
the relative risk model for regional scale ecological risk assessments and has
applied it to sites across North America, Australia and South America.
Shawn E. Larson
Curator of Conservation Research
Seattle Aquarium
Seattle WA
Shawn Larson is curator of Conservation Research at the
Seattle Aquarium. She has worked there for 12 years and coordinates and
conducts research on a variety of marine species including sea otters, fur
seals, octopus, alcids, roskfish, Pacific spiny lumpsuckers and sixgill sharks.
Larry L. LeClair
Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Fish and Wildlife
Olympia WA
Larry LeClair is a Biologist with the Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife. His research
interests include applying genetics technology and novel statistical techniques
to the investigation of population structure and zoogeography of marine
animals, identifying habitat preferences and resource partitioning among
different life history stages of marine fish and Pacific salmonids, marine fish
and shellfish recruitment ecology, and developing novel approaches to marking
early life history stages of marine and anadromous fish.
Patrick L. Lilley
Masters candidate
University of British Columbia
Dept. of Botany & Biodiversity Research Centre
Vancouver British Columbia
Patrick Lilley is a Masters candidate in the Department of
Botany at the University of British Columbia. He also holds an Environmental
Sciences degree from UBC. He has worked in conservation research, habitat
restoration and environmental education in the Georgia Basin for the last six
years. Most recently, he coordinated field studies and land management at
Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) in partnership with A Rocha, an
international conservation organization.
Veronica Lo
MSc Candidate
University of British Columbia
Inst. for Resources, Environment & Sustainability
Vancouver British Columbia
Veronica Lo is a M.Sc. candidate in the Resource Management
and Environmental Studies program at UBC, supervised by Dr. Colin Levings and
Dr. Kai Chan. She earned a B.Sc.
in Integrative Biology and Environmental Science from the University of
Toronto. Her experience includes
researching Great Lakes health indicators at Environment Canada, and
coordinating stewardship activities for the Town of Richmond Hill.
Miles G. Logsdon
Research Assistant Professor
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Seattle WA
Dr. Miles Logsdon is a member of the faculty of the College of
Ocean and Fishery Sciences, School of Oceanography and serves as the director
of the Spatial Analysis Lab. His research and teaching activities are focus on
spatial pattern analysis in ecosystem sciences and the applications of
Geographic Information Science (GIS) and Remote Sensing in ecosystem models.
Eduardo Loos
Student
University of Victoria Dept. Geography
Victoria British Columbia
Eduardo Loos is an Oceanographer in his 4th year Ph.D. program
in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria.
Dieta R. Lund
Student
Environment Canada
Canadian Wildlife Service
Vancouver British Columbia
Dieta Lund is a fourth year conservation biology student at
the University of British Columbia.
She did her work with Western Sandpipers during a 12 month co-op
position with the Canadian Wildlife Service.
Robie W. Macdonald
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Sidney British Columbia
R.W. Macdonald is a geochemical oceanographer who studies the
organic carbon cycle, ocean pathways, contaminants and climate change. He has worked locally on contaminant problems in the Strait of
Georgia, mainly using dated sediment cores to extract contaminant histories and
sources (PAH, Dioxins, Hg, other metals).
He has also worked extensively in the Arctic on the organic carbon cycle
and the effects of climate change on the processes of contaminant transport and
contaminant concentration
Andrea J. MacLennan
Coastal Scientist
Coastal Geologic Services
Bellingham WA
Andrea MacLennan?s understanding of both coastal geomorphology
and ecology enables her to provide valuable syntheses of nearshore processes.
She specializes in nearshore geomorphic and habitat assessments, applied
coastal management, restoration/conservation planning, geographic information
systems (GIS) and (historic) air photo analysis. She has been an environmental
consultant in the Puget Sound for over 7 years, and with Coastal Geologic
Services in Bellingham, WA, since 2003.
Christina M. Maginnis
Institute of Environmental Toxicology
Western Washington University
Environmental Science
Bellingham WA
Christina Maginnis completed a Master of Science at Western
Washington University in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Science at the
University of Massachusetts in Natural Resource Science. Her recent thesis
research included creating an integrated risk assessment framework on a
multiple-use drinking water source. Over the past four years, Christina has
worked with citizens and local agencies to improve Lake Whatcom water quality
through environmental site assessments, land acquisition, ecological
restoration projects, and stormwater compliance.
Nathan J. Mantua
University of Washington
Climate Impacts Group
Seattle WA
Nathan Mantua is a Research Associate Professor in the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, affiliate faculty in Atmospheric Sciences and
Marine Affairs, and the Assistant Director of the UW?s Center for Science in
the Earth System at the University of Washington. Most of his current research
is focused on regional impacts of climate on the water cycle, forests and
marine ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest, and how climate information is or
isn?t being used in resource management decisions. He received a B S from the
University of California at Davis in 1988, and a Ph D from the UW?s Department
of Atmospheric Science in 1994. He spent one year as a postdoctoral Fellow at
Scripps Institute of Oceanography working on a pilot project for the
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. In April 2000 he
received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his
climate impacts research and public outreach activities.
James M. Maroncelli
Washington State Department of Ecology
Water Quality Program
Olympia WA
Senior environmental chemist with >25 years experience
helping industries comply with environmental regulations and improve business
operations. Responsible for
management and technical quality of hundreds of environmental assessment,
remediation, and regulatory compliance projects; development of chemical,
historical, and geoinformational databases; and business process functionality
assessment and management system re-engineering. Developed strategies to manage potential liabilities from
State and Federal TMDL rulings.
Conducted human health and ecological risk assessments. Co-authored ?The Traveler?s Guide to
Nuclear Weapons.?
Diane Masson
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney British Columbia
Dr Masson has worked on different aspects of the oceanography
of the Southern British Columbia waters. In addition to leading a long term
seasonal sampling program, she is involved in the development of numerical
models of the area.
Anna Mathewson
Manager
Fraser River Estuary Management Program (FREMP)
Burnaby British Columbia
Anna Mathewson is Manager and Policy Coordinator of the Fraser
River Estuary Management Program (FREMP), based in Burnaby, B.C. She has a Master?s degree in Resource
Management from Simon Fraser University.
Prior to joining FREMP in 2002, she worked for a number of years in the
provincial treaty negotiation process.
FREMP agency partner representatives will also be part of this
presentation, representing land managers and regulatory agencies for fisheries,
wildlife and environmental management.
Christopher W. May
Senior Scientist-Engineer
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory
Sequim WA
Dr. Christopher W. May, senior research scientist and engineer
at the Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory, is a freshwater ecologist and
environmental engineer. His areas of interest include stormwater management,
low impact development, watershed analysis using geographic information
systems, salmonid habitat assessment, water quality monitoring, stream
biological assessment, and watershed restoration
Tom McAuley
Engineering Adviser
International Joint Commission
Canadian Section
Ottawa Ontario
Aundrea N. McBride
Research Ecologist
Skagit River System Cooperative
Research
La Conner WA
Aundrea McBride is a geologist with degrees from Southern
Methodist University and Western Washington University. She has worked for the Skagit River
System Cooperative since 2000, researching nearshore habitat issues related to
Chinook salmon recovery.
Previously, she developed the water resources program for the Swinomish
Indian Tribal Community, conducted research in fluvial and glacial
geomorphology, and taught geology and ecology at the university level.
Sarah G. McCarthy
Research Fisheries Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Sarah McCarthy is a Research Fisheries Biologist in the
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fish Health Program, Environmental Conservation
Division at NOAA?s Northwest Fisheries Science Center. She joined the program in 2005 to serve
as the coordinator for research associated with the effects of contaminated
stormwater on fish. She earned a
B.S. in Biology and Environmental Science from Santa Clara University in 2000
and a M.S. in Aquatic and Fisheries Science from University of Washington in
2004.
Michelle McConnell
Project Coordinator - SMP Update
Jefferson County
Dept. of Community Development
Port Townsend WA
With basic training in marine science and professional
experience in fisheries research, community education, and natural resource
stewardship, Michelle McConnell has lived west of the Cascades since age 12,
always keeping near to the water.
She has enjoyed unique experiences where the goal was to blur the edges
between ecology, economy and human culture. Newly immersed in the world of policy and planning, she
strives to stay firmly grounded in science while stitching together a quilt of
community values that will satisfy diverse interests and adhere to the goals of
legislative mandates.
Andrew J. McNaughton
McNaughton Environmental Consultants
Nanaimo British Columbia
Andrew McNaughton graduated with a diploma in Fisheries and
Aquaculture from Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, BC. He has worked for other consultants for
several years and started his enterprise in 1998. He has worked with a number
of Vancouver Island First Nations in areas of fish habitat, shellfish
aquaculture development and water quality projects.
Michael C. Melnychuk
Graduate Student
University of British Columbia
Fisheries Centre
Vancouver British Columbia
I?m a U.B.C. Ph.D. student with Carl Walters studying marine
mortality and migration patterns of juvenile salmonids in southern B.C. My work
involves acoustic tagging studies with stationary and mobile receivers under
the POST project as well as simulation modelling to estimate detection rates
and movement/mortality processes.
Scott J. Mickelson
Senior Water Quality Project Manager
King County
Marine and Sediment Assessment Group
Seattle WA
Scott Mickelson is a Senior Water Quality Project Manager with
the King County Marine and Sediment Assessment Group. He manages water and sediment quality monitoring projects
for the County, along with conducting field studies for sediment cleanup and
other regulatory purposes. His
background is in environmental chemistry and marine biology.
Jim Middaugh
Science, Fish and Wildlife Division Manager
City of Portland
Environmental Services
Portland OR
Jim Middaugh manages the City of Portland?s Science, Fish and
Wildlife Division. Jim is responsible for natural resource investigations and
analyses and the City?s response to Endangered Species Act listings. Prior to
joining the City of Portland, Jim was the Public Affairs Manager for the
Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
The Council is an interstate compact formed by Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana to manage energy, fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin.
Steven F. Mihaly
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney British Columbia
Graduate of UBC in Physical Oceanography. Spent last few years
working on coastal oceanography of BC and as well as the physical oceanography
of the Endeavour Ridge hydrothermal venting system. As an avid sailor has a
strong bond and recreational interest in the Salish Sea.
Gary Minton
Civil/Environmental Engineer
Seattle WA
Member of the Water and Salmon Committee of the Cascade
Chapter for ten years. Native born
and resident of Seattle for 63 years. Active in urban stream issues and
concerns. Licensed professional
civil/environmental engineer with knowledge and experience in urban water
quality.
Danielle Mitchell
University of Washington
Seattle WA
Danielle Mitchell earned a Bachelor?s degree in marine biology
from California State University in Long Beach in 2001. After graduation, she worked as a
research assistant in a neurobiology lab in San Diego, where she developed a
strong interest in molecular biology and genetics. This experience inspired her to combine her knowledge of
marine ecology and genetics and is currently pursuing a Master?s degree at the
University of Washington under the advisement of Lorenz Hauser.
Todd A. Mitchell
Water Resources Manager
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Office of Planning and Community Development
La Conner WA
Todd Mitchell, a Swinomish Tribal member, is the Water
Resources Manager in the Swinomish Planning Office. He graduated from Dartmouth
College (BA, Geology) and Washington State University (MS, Geology)
specializing in hydrogeology, igneous petrology and geochemistry. His research
includes the Tribe?s water resources including tidelands, surfacewater,
groundwater, wetlands, and habitat restoration research.
Ed Molash
Environmental Engineer
Washington State Department of Transportation
Environmental Services
Olympia WA
B.S. Geophysics - University of Delaware 1981, B.S. Civil
Engineering - University of Delaware 1981, M.S. Environmental Engineering -
Oklahoma State University 1991. 12
years of experience in hydrology, water quality, and streambank erosion
projects associated with highway construction, preservation, and maintenance.
Alyse Mongeon
Trent University
Watershed Ecosystem Graduate Program
Peterborough Ontario
M.Sc. candidate in the Watershed Ecosystem Graduate Program,
Trent University
Melissa V. Montgomery
Derelict Vessel Removal Program Manager
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic Resources Division
Olympia WA
Melissa Montgomery works for the Department of Natural
Resources as Washington State?s Derelict Vessel Removal Program Manager. Melissa previously worked for DNR
managing state properties. Melissa
has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in
environmental studies from Pacific Lutheran University and a Master of Marine
Affairs degree from the University of Washington?s School of Marine Affairs.
Stephanie K. Moore
University of Washington
School of Oceanography and Climate Impacts Group
Seattle WA
Stephanie Moore is a postdoctoral research associate with the
University of Washington?s School of Oceanography and Climate Impacts Group.
Currently she is investigating the role of climate variability on harmful algal
blooms in the Puget Sound estuary and on the Washington coast. Broader research
interests include nutrient enrichment and limitation in coastal systems and
physical-biological interactions in the plankton. She obtained a BS and PhD
from the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she researched tracers
and indicators of anthropogenic nutrient enrichment in subtropical east
Australian estuaries. She has worked with local government in Australia to
develop and prepare the Estuarine Management Plan for Wallis Lake; the largest
commercial oyster producing area and largest area of seagrass habitat on the
New South Wales coast.
Patrick Moran
Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Washington Water Science Center
Tacoma WA
Patrick Moran serves as the Biologist for the USGS National
Water Quality Assessment Program for Washington State. As his training is as a toxicologist,
he additionally works on a number of contaminant related projects.
Sarah A. Morley
Research Ecologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seattle WA
Sarah Morley is a Research Ecologist with the Watershed
Program at NOAA?s Northwest Fisheries Science Center. As a member of the
Restoration Team, her work focuses on evaluating the effects of various
restoration techniques in freshwater and estuarine environments. Sarah received
her M.S. from the U.W. School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and her B.S. from
U.C. Berkeley.
Madrona B. Murphy
Botanist and genetic technician
KWIAHT (Centre for the Historical Ecology of the Salish
Sea)
Lopez Island WA
Madrona Murphy, a lifelong resident of Lopez Island, has
formal training in botany and plant-human interactions, as well as extensive
practical experience in the ethobotany of the San Juan archipelago.. She divides her time between molecular
biology at the Center for Cell Dynamics and stewardship related research as a
botanist and genetic technician with Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Ecology
of the Salish Sea.
Mark S. Myers
Research Fisheries Biologist
NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Ecotoxicology Program
Seattle WA
Mark Myers is a research fisheries biologist at NOAA?s
Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
His primary focus is on the toxicological effects of chemical
contaminants on salmon and marine fish species. He is the lead histopathologist for the Center?s
Ecotoxicology Program.
Bruce Nairn
Environmental Engineer
King County
Department of Natural Resources and Parks
Seattle WA
Bruce Nairn is an Environmental Engineer with King County?s
Wastewater Treatment Division. He
is interested in understanding and modeling environmental transport processes.
Kerry Naish
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Troy C. Nelson
Senior Fisheries Biologist
LGL Limited Environmental Research Associates
Sidney British Columbia
Troy C. Nelson is a Fisheries Biologist with LGL Limited
environmental research associates (Sidney, BC), the Executive Director of the
Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society (FRSCS; Vancouver, BC). A dual citizen of Canada and the USA,
Mr. Nelson has been involved with a diversity of fisheries research initiatives
and aquatic ecosystem assessments in Alaska, Washington state, British
Columbia, and Australia. He
currently resides near the shores of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Melissa Neuman
Fisheries Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Long Beach CA
Fishery Biologist, 2001-present, NOAA/NMFS/Southwest
Region. Coordinate the recovery of
the first endangered marine invertebrate, white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni),
throughout its range from Pt. Conception, California, USA to Central Baja
California, Mexico. Aid in the
conservation, protection and recovery of other marine invertebrates (green
abalone-H. fulgens, black abalone-H. cracherodii, pink abalone-H. corrugata)
and fishes (cowcod- Sebastes levis, bocaccio- Sebastes paucispinis) on NMFS?s
Species of Concern List. Make ESA
listing decisions and develop subsequent rulemaking involving protective
regulations and critical habitat designations for marine invertebrates and
fishes (notably green sturgeon-Acispenser medirostris) in the southwestern
United States.
Chrys-Ellen M. Neville
Research Biologist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
Chrys Neville is a research biologist with over 15 years
experience with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She has published numerous papers including the effects of
climate on regional ecosystems and has presented this work both regionally and
internationally.
Jan A. Newton
Principal Oceanographer
University of Washington
Applied Physics Laboratory
Seattle WA
Jan Newton is a biological oceanographer at the Applied
Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington.
Janna Nichols
SeaDoc Society
UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
Eastsound WA
Janna Nichols is an avid SCUBA diver and loves to teach people
about the amazing fish and invertebrates that live in the Georgia Basin Puget
Sound. Underwater photography and fish and invertebrate ID are her favorite
underwater activities. She is a dive instructor and teaches fish and
invertebrate identification classes for the SeaDoc Society. When she?s not
underwater, Janna loves duel sport motorcycling and geocaching.
Jim Norris
Owner
Marine Resources Consultants
Port Townsend WA
James Norris hods a BS degree in mathematics (UC, Davis) and
MS and PhD degrees in fisheries (Univ of Alaska, UW). He has 25 years of
commercial fishing experience (salmon, sablefish, halibut, Dungeness crab). He
is president of Sound Vessels, Inc. and owner of Marine Resources Consultants.
His current research focuses on underwater videographic methods for monitoring
nearshore marine habitats.
Dale Norton
Environmental Scientist
WA Dept. of Ecology
Lacey WA
Dale Norton received his B.S. Degree in Marine Resources from
Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University in
1980. Since 1980, he has worked at
the Washington State Department of Ecology serving as lead scientist on a wide
variety of environmental research and monitoring programs. During the last 20 years his work has
focused on toxics contaminations issues (fish tissue, sediments and water) in
marine and freshwater aquatic systems. He currently manages the Toxics Studies
Unit (TSU) in the Environmental Assessment Program, which oversees such
activities as the Washington State Toxics Monitoring Program, TMDLs for toxic
pollutants and PBT monitoring.
David R. Nysewander
Wildlife Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia WA
Dave has been with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
since 1992 leading the marine bird and mammal component of the Puget Sound
Assessment and Monitoring Program along with agency?s sea duck research. His work 1975-1992 in Alaska with U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service included monitoring seabird colonies, at-sea surveys,
reintroduction of endangered species, oil spill damage assessments, and serving
as supervisory wildlife biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife
Refuge 1986-1992.
Peter F. Olesiuk
Research Biologist / Program Head
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Pinniped Research Program
Nanaimo British Columbia
Peter Olesiuk is a Research Biologist with Fisheries and
Oceans Canada and is Head of Seal and Sea Lion Research Programs in Pacific
Region. He works out of the
Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, B.C., and has been studying seals, sea
lions and other marine mammals for 25 years, and has a special interest in
population biology and foraging ecology.
Janet I. Olsonbaker
Usability Engineer
University of Washington
Applied Physics Laboratory
Seattle WA
Janet Olsonbaker is a usability engineer at the Applied
Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle. She is Co-Principal
Investigator of the Boater Information System (BIS), a web portal that helps
boaters access cutting-edge weather and oceanographic products for Puget Sound.
She manages the Multimedia Development Program, which produces videos and
interactive web applications for education and science, computer-based training
programs, 3D visualizations and animations. Her research interests include
Human Computer Interaction and Cognitive Task Analysis.
Sandra M. O?Neill
Research Scientist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Fish Program
Seattle WA
Ms. O?Neill is a research scientist with the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife. Washington. She received her B.S. in Zoology
from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her M.S. in Zoology from the
University of British Columbia.
For the past 15 years she has led the Puget Sound Assessment and
Monitoring Program?s assessment of contaminants in Puget Sound fishes. Her research interests are the
influence of fish life history on contaminant accumulation and mapping the flow
of contaminants through the aquatic food web.
Heather Osachoff
M. Sc. candidate (SFU) and Toxicogenomics Analyst
Environment Canada
Environmental Toxicology
North Vancouver British Columbia
Heather Osachoff is a Master of Science in Biology student at
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada) and also works for Environment
Canada at the Pacific Environmental Science Centre (North Vancouver, BC,
Canada). Her research combines
traditional toxicological studies with genomics tools to investigate sewage
effects on gene expression in Pacific salmon species.
Tom Ostrom
Environmental Biologist
Suquamish Tribe
Fisheries Department
Suquamish WA
Robert Pacunski
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Marine Fish Science
Mill Creek WA
Bob Pacunski is a Marine Fish Biologist and Research Diver
with WDFW where he has been conducting research on rockfish and lingcod for the
past 15 years. Bob received a
B.Sc. in Biology from Seattle Pacific University in 1984 and a M.Sc. in
Fisheries from the University of Washington in 1990. Utilizing underwater technology and GIS, Bob?s research has focused
on habitat utilization by Puget Sound bottomfish and the mapping of those
habitats.
Gary Palcisko
Toxicologist
Washington State Department Health
Olympia WA
Gary Palcisko is a health assessor with Washington Department
of Health. He received a MS from
the University of Washington and BS from University of North Carolina,
Charlotte. Recent projects include
evaluating exposure at a naturally-occurring asbestos site and developing
health advice for consuming Puget Sound fish.
Wayne A. Palsson
Research Scientist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Mill Creek WA
Wayne Palsson is a research scientist with the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
He has worked on marine fishes in Puget Sound for nearly 30 years and
has focused on their biology, ecology, and management.
Sandra Parker Stetter
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Sandra Parker Stetter is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at
the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington,
working with Dr. John Horne. Her
current research uses acoustics to address ecological and management questions
for fish and large invertebrates.
Julia K. Parrish
Associate Professor
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Julia K. Parrish is an Associate Professor in the School of
Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Department of Biology at the University of
Washington. Her research and
academic interests follow three major routes: behavior of organisms living in
groups (like schools of fish and colonially nesting seabirds), seabird ecology
(mainly Common Murres), and marine conservation. Julia founded the COASST Program with 12 original volunteers
in 1999. The program has since
grown to more than 400 volunteers on over 150 beaches.
Valerie Partridge
Estuarine Ecologist
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental Assessment Program
Olympia WA
Valerie Partridge is an estuarine ecologist with the
Washington State Department of Ecology.
Since 2003, she has been Ecology?s project lead for the Washington
Coastal EMAP project. She has a
M.Sc. in biology from Acadia University and a M.S. in statistics from Virginia Tech.
Clay R. Patmont
Partner
Anchor Environmental, LLC
Seattle WA
Mr. Patmont has more than 27 years of experience in aquatic
site investigations, source evaluations, and design of hazardous substance
remediation and habitat restoration projects in aquatic environments,
particularly lakes, large rivers, and estuaries. He is a recognized national expert in several areas,
including integrated sediment cleanup and habitat restoration design.
Daniel Pauly
Featured Keynote Speaker
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen, born in May 1946 in
Paris, France. He grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but
completed high school and university studies in the Federal Republic of
Germany, where he acquired a ?Diplom? (= MSc) in 1974 and a Doctorate degree in
Fisheries Biology in 1979 at the University of Kiel.
He joined the International Center for Living Aquatic
Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines, in July 1979. In October
1994, he joined the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia (UBC), as
a tenured Professor, and became Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre November
1, 2003.
Dr. Pauly is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy
of Science), one of UBC?s ?Distinguished University Scholars?, was named one of
Scientific American?s ?50 Research Leader? for 2003, and has received numerous
awards, notably the International COSMOS Prize from the Expo?90 Foundation,
Japan in 2005, and the Volvo Environment Prize from the Volvo Foundation,
Stockholm, Sweden in 2006.
Anthony J. Paulson
Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Washington Water Science Center
Tacoma WA
Anthony Paulson currently is the Section Chief of
Environmental Hydrology and Geochemistry.
After receiving his Ph. D in Environmental Science from the University
of Washington, he conducted research with NOAA-Research, U.S. Bureau of Mines,
Drexel University, US EPA and NOAA-Fisheries. He has collaborated with physical oceanographers to develop
models that couple physical and geochemical processes and has published over 30
refereed articles and reports on cycling of trace metals and nutrients in Puget
Sound.
Pat Pearson
Water and Natural Resources Faculty
Washington State University
Jefferson County Extension
Port Hadlock WA
Pearson develops programs to educate residents about
watersheds and natural systems.
Marlow Pellatt
Coastal Ecologist
Parks Canada
Western and Northern Service Centre
Vancouver British Columbia
Dr. Marlow Pellatt is the Coastal Ecologist for Parks Canada?s
Western and Northern Service Centre and an Adjunct Professor in the School of
Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Pellatt?s research interests are
directed at coastal ecosystem processes, paleoecology and paleoclimatology.
Briony E. Penn
Adjunct Professor
University of Victoria
School of Environmental Studes
Saltspring Island British Columbia
Dr. Briony Penn is a journalist, broadcaster, activist,
naturalist, artist, consultant and lecturer. She is the author and collaborator
on a number of books on natural history, community mapping and environmental
education in the Salish Sea. She is one of the founders of The Land Conservancy
of British Columbia and has won national awards for her environmental education
and writing. Her first love is stewarding her island, Saltspring, in the Salish
Sea.
Gretchen Peterson
PetersonGIS
Poulsbo WA
Ms. Peterson has been conducting GIS analysis and development
in the Pacific Northwest for over seven years. Prior to founding PetersonGIS, she was a GIS analyst for a
consulting firm where she designed the GIS salmonid refugia model for Kitsap
and Jefferson Counties in Washington State. She holds a BS in Natural Resources from Cornell University.
Megan E. Petrie
Research Fisheries Biology
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Manchester WA
Megan has been with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center for
about a year, and currently studies the behavior of steelhead both in their
natural habitat and experimentally in the laboratory. She is particularly interested in the habitat use and marine
migration patterns of salmonids, and how those behaviors are affected by
environmental or ecological factors.
Stephen H. Phillips
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
Portland OR
Stephen Phillips has worked for the Pacific States Marine
Fisheries Commission since 1992 and has been the Aquatic Nuisance Species
Program Manager for the past 7 years.
He received a B.S. in Biology from Baldwin Wallace College in 1979 and a
Masters Degree in Fisheries Science from Oregon State University in 1987.
Monty Raisinghani
University of British Columbia
Chemical Engineering
Surrey British Columbia
Young, Motivated, and AMBITIOUS Chemical Engineering Student
at the University of British Columbia, 4th Year, Process Option
Robert Rankin
Research Assistant
Environment Canada
Vancouver British Columbia
Robert Rankin is a fourth year student at Simon Fraser University.
He has both resource management and ecological field experience. Robert has rescently been working as a
coop student for Environment Canada, helping to develop an Ecosystem Status and
Trends Assessment for Canada.
Scott B. Redman
Program Manager, Toxics Reduction
Puget Sound Action Team
Olympia WA
Scott Redman is a Toxics Reduction Program Manager for the
State of Washington?s Puget Sound Action Team (PSAT). He has worked for PSAT in various capacities, including
acting director and science coordinator, for 10 years. Earlier in his career, Scott worked in
other parts of the U.S. on Great Lakes clean up and U.S. EPA regulatory
programs. Scott has a Bachelor?s
in Chemistry and a Master?s in Environmental Science with a concentration in
Environmental Chemistry.
Sarah Rees
Section Manager Program Development
WA Dept of Ecology
Olympia WA
Sarah Rees manages the Program Development Section for the Air
Quality Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology. Her section is responsible for
statewide planning, rule development, air toxics, public outreach, and air
quality modeling efforts. She is a
PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, where her research focused on
monitoring, characterization and transport of fine PM. Prior to graduate school, she practiced
environmental law in California.
Blain R. Reeves
Nearshore Habitat Scientist
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Nearshore Habitat Program
Olympia WA
Blain Reeves is a natural resource scientist with the Nearshore
Habitat Program at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. He has
worked on nearshore habitat monitoring, inventory and exotic species research
projects throughout Washington for more than ten years.
Reg R. Reisenbichler
Fishery Research Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Western Fisheries Research Center
Seattle WA
Managed and studied fishes in Wyoming and California.
Conducted research in experimental design, population genetics, population
dynamics, stream ecology, and life histories of anadromous Pacific salmonids
from California to Alaska. Specific topics include integration of artificial
and natural production, effects of marine-derived nutrients in streams, use of
otoliths to describe estuary utilization by juvenile salmon, and habitat
utilization, distribution, abundance, and growth of forage and other fishes
(including bull trout) in Puget Sound.
Casimir A. Rice
Research Fisheries Biologist
University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries
Mukilteo WA
Casey Rice is a Research Fisheries Biologist at NOAA?s
Mukilteo Facility. In sixteen years with NOAA he has been involved in several
research projects focusing on the biological effects of human activities in
coastal marine and estuarine environments. Casey holds B.A. and B.S. degrees
(The Evergreen State College 1989), an M.S. in fisheries (University of
Washington 1997), and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of
Washington under the supervision of Dr. James Karr.
Mike G. Richards
Program Coordinator
Georgia Strait Alliance
Green Boating
Nanaimo British Columbia
Mike Richards, has been boating all his life and has spent
time with the Navy and as a professional fisherman. Mike is a member of several boating organizations and has
cruised extensively in Australia, Canada, The United States and Mexico. Mike
has qualifications in Environmental Science, Education and Program Development.
He is a member of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council and is a past chair of
the Georgia Basin Ecosystem Initiative Green Boating work group.
Jeffrey E. Richey
Professor
University of Washington
Seattle WA
Richey?s research
involves the biogeochemistry and hydrology of river basins, from Hood
Canal and Puget Sound to the large tropical basins of the Amazon, Mekong, and
Zambezi. Across this range of environments, a set of problems remain constants ?
how to interpolate between sparse field measurements, and ultimately create
projections of possible future outcomes. Hence his central focus is the
integration of field measurements from multiple sites with cyber infrastructure
techniques.
Mindy L. Roberts
Environmental Engineer
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental Assessment Program
Olympia WA
Mindy Roberts received a BS in Civil Engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley, and MS in Civil and Oceanographic
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, and Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Greg Pelletier received a BS in Environmental
Studies from Springfield College and MS in Civil Engineering from the
University of Washington. Both are
professional engineers with the Department of Ecology, modeling a variety of
freshwater and marine systems.
Cliff L. Robinson
Parks Canada
Vancouver British Columbia
Dr. Cliff Robinson is a marine ecosystem scientist with the
Resource Conservation unit of the Western and Northern Service Centre, Parks
Canada Agency, Vancouver, BC. He provides research support to National Parks
and to the National Marine Conservation Areas program on the Pacific and Arctic
coasts of Canada. Research interests include understanding the structure and
functioning of near shore ecosystems, such as seagrass meadows, and
understanding habitat use of key forage fish species, through field study,
geographic information systems, and ecosystem modelling.
Laura Rogers-Bennett
Associate Biologist
California Department of Fish and Game
Bodega Marine Lab
Bodega Bay CA
Dr. Rogers-Bennett received her Ph.D. in Ecology from the
University of California, Davis. She completed two post-doctoral fellowships
one at UC Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Science and the other at the UW.
Friday Harbor Labs. Dr. Rogers-Bennett is an associate biologist with the
California Department of Fish and Game working at the Bodega Marine Lab addressing
processes that impact marine populations and communities applying these
findings to resource assessment, management and conservation.
Robert J. Rosenbauer
Geochemist
U.S. Geological Survey
Menlo Park CA
Senior Geochemist with over thirty years research in organic,
inorganic, and experimental geochemistry of fundamental geologic processes and
more recently in studies that provide information to help understand natural
and human-induced stresses on the environment. Research interests include: Submarine
hydrothermal systems, geochronology, the global carbon cycle, and chemical
interactions in the coastal zone, including the source, transport,
accumulation, and impact of contaminants on the microbial community structure
of coastal ecosystems.
Peter S. Ross
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
MEQ Section, Institute of Ocean Sciences
Sidney British Columbia
Dr Peter S. Ross is a Research Scientist with Fisheries and
Oceans Canada, and holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Victoria
and Simon Fraser University. He conducts research on environmental contaminants
in coastal food webs and on their consequences for marine mammals and other
biota.
Don P. Rothaus
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Central Shellfish Unit
Mill Creek WA
Don Rothaus has been a biologist for the Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife since 1988.
His work focuses primarily on subtidal shellfish species including
geoduck, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and abalone. He is also the WDFW Diving
Safety Officer.
Melinda L. Rowse
Research Fishery Biologist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Conservation Biology
Division
Seattle WA
Mindy Rowse is a Research Fishery Biologist in the
Conservation Biology Division, at Northwest Fisheries Science Center. She is a member of the Salmon Harvest
Team and works with the Estuary and Ocean Ecology Program on juvenile salmon
research, including use of estuarine and nearshore habitats in Puget
Sound. She has a BS in Ecology and
Wildlife Biology from University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; and a MS in Fisheries
from University of Washington.
Wendi M. Ruef
Research Scientist
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
Seattle WA
Wendi Ruef is currently working as an oceanographer at the
University of Washington. She has
been involved with the ORCA project since June, 2000, and received a bachelor?s
of science degree in chemical oceanography from the University of Washington in
June, 2000.
Camille Russell
GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst
People For Puget Sound
Habitat
Seattle WA
Camille Russell is an urban planner with experience using
geospatial technologies for environmental characterizations and assessments.
Work in academia has involved the characterization of urban-impervious
land-cover in the Puget Sound region, and the quantification of critical salmon
habitat in the Puget Sound nearshore using a combination of GIS analysis tools
and remotely-sensed data. Camille?s current role includes developing geospatial
methodologies for habitat restoration, conducting GIS analysis, and integrating
key stakeholders in habitat restoration priorities.
Michal Russo
Research Assistant
University of Washington
Urban Planning and Design
Seattle WA
Michal is currently finishing a dual Masters in Urban Planning
and Landscape Architecture form the University of Washington. Her studies focus
on Urban Ecology, exploring the unique relationship between humans and the
natural world within major metropolitan areas. After she graduates she hopes to
tie emerging research in Urban Ecology with physical design to alter human
perception and behavior in Urban Ecosystems.
Michael Sanborn
Environmental Scientist
UMA Engineering Ltd.
Victoria British Columbia
Mike Sanborn completed an M.Sc. at the university of Victoria
before joining the institute of Ocean Sciences. He currently works as an environmental scientist UMA
Engineering Ltd. in Victoria, BC.
Bettina C. Sander
Senior Aquatic Biologist
Golder Associates Ltd.
Burnaby British Columbia
Ms. Sander has a M.Sc., in Limnolgy, is an R.P. Bio, and an
Associate in Golder?s Burnaby office. She has over 15 years experience in
implementing and managing environmental assessment and fisheries projects. She
has been working with the Squamish Nation for over 11 years on the salmon
enumeration program as well as other projects. She is primary author on both
the Squamish River Watershed Recovery Plan and the Salmon Assessment Framework
for the Squamish River Watershed.
Valentin H. Schaefer
Faculty Coordinator, Restoration of Natural System
University of Victoria
Environmntal Studies
Victoria British Columbia
Val is an educator and urban ecologist. He is the Faculty
Coordinator of the Restoration of Natural Systems Program at the School of
Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on
urban biodiversity and connectivity. Val is a recipient of the BC Minister of
the Environment?s Award for Environmental Education, and the BC Society of
Landscape Architects? Award for community service.
Anja Schanz
Estuarine Ecologist
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic Resources Devision
Olympia WA
Anja Schanz is currently leading the Eelgrass
Stressor-Response Project, which focus on identifying the causes of eelgrass
losses in Puget Sound with the Washington State Department of Natural
Resources. As a post-doctoral researcher she worked on the development and
intercalibration of a Trilateral Seagrass Monitoring and Assessment Program
(TMAP) in the Wadden Sea (North Sea), and was involved in projects dealing with
the habitat destruction and species lost along the European Coasts (ELME) at
the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Her previous
research focused on seagrass ecology, hydrodynamics and ecological functions of
seagrass systems (PhD). She graduated as a marine biologist (Diploma) at the
University of Bremen, Germany.
Cindy M. Schexnider
Environmental Contaminant Specialist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Environmental Contaminants
Lacey WA
Cindy is an Environmental Contaminant Specialist with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service in Lacey, WA.
She has approximately 14 years of experience as a biologist with the
agency and has been working on the trumpter swan lead shot ingestion problem
since 2000.
Paul Schlenger
Fisheries Biologist
Anchor Environmental, LLC
Seattle WA
Paul Schlenger is a fisheries biologist with Anchor Environmental
in Seattle. He attended the
University of Virginia for his undergraduate degree and received his Masters
degree from the University of Washington?s School of Fisheries. His research has focused on fish
interactions with physical and biological environmental conditions. Paul?s nearshore work has focused on
habitat-based evaluations of environmental conditions for salmonids and their
prey.
Orlando W. Schmidt
Environmental Soil Specialist
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Resource Management Branch
Abbotsford British Columbia
Mr. Schmidt is Environmental Soil Specialist with the British
Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. His work includes assessment of
agricultural nutrient management practices on the environment, and development
of planning tools to increase uptake of nutrient management planning by farmers
in BC. He has a B.Sc. in
Agricultural Sciences from UBC and is a current candidate for an M.Sc. in
Environmental Management from Royal Roads University.
Lynn Schneider
BEACH Program Coordinator
Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia WA
Ms. Schneider received her B.S. in Environmental Chemistry
from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1988. She worked as a chemist for Morton
International for eight years prior to joining the Washington State Department
of Ecology in 2001. Lynn became
the BEACH Program Coordinator in 2001.
Her main interest is the relationship between increases in indicator
levels and increased illness rates associated with water contact. Additional interests include efficient
and effective public notification and education related to fecal pollution at
our recreational beaches as well as remediation of polluted beaches.
Morgan M. Schneidler
Social Scientist
Frank Orth and Associates
NWFSC Socioecnomics Program
Fall City WA
Morgan M. Schneidler worked with the Makah Tribe as part of
her thesis research to help evaluate ecotourism opportunities and challenges on
the reservation. She was as a
research associate with the Washington Sea Grant Program and attended the
University of Washington?s School of Marine Affairs. Morgan is currently employed as a social scientist and works
with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center?s socioeconomic program to better
understand the human dimension of the marine and coastal ecosystems in the
Northwest Region.
Nathaniel L. Scholz
Research Zoologist
NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Ecotoxicology Program
Seattle WA
Nat Scholz manages the Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fish
Health Program at NOAA?s Northwest Fisheries Science Center. He plans and coordinates NOAA?s
pollution-related research in the Pacific Northwest. He is particularly interested in the impacts of coastal
development and toxic stormwater runoff on salmon and marine fish species. He has a Masters in marine biology
(Boston University) and a Ph.D in zoology (University of Washington).
Hans Schreier
Professor
University of British Columbia
Institute for Resources & Environment
Vancouver British Columbia
Jennifer MacDonald has an MSc degree from UBC in Resource
Management and worked for 2 years years as a research associate at the
Institute for Resources and Environment at UBC before joining Environment
Canada in Nov. 2006. Her research interests are in water resources management,
hydrological and pollution processes and stormwater management.
Peter Schwarzhoff
Head, Air Quality Science
Environment Canada
Vancouver BC
Peter Schwarzhoff manages the Meteorological Service of
Canada?s Air Quality Science Unit in Vancouver. This unit includes experts in
monitoring, atmospheric chemistry, data analysis, meteorology and air quality
modeling. Issues of current interest include emissions scenario modeling,
source apportionment, transboundary and transcontinental flows of air
pollution. Peter is Environment Canada?s national lead on the impact of
pollution on visibility.
James Selleck III
People for Puget Sound
Seattle WA
James is specialized in marine habitat ecology, population
biology, statistical design, and invasive species. Masters of Science in marine ecology from Western Washington
University, B.S. in marine biology from University of New Hampshire. Has conducted research in broad scale
marine ecosystems, including groundfish, eelgrass, nearshore invertebrates, and
estuarine processes. Scuba
instructor for NAUI. Previously
employed by Washington State Fish and Wildlife, Department of Natural
Resources, and The Nature Conservancy.
Laura J. Sellens
Western Washington University
Huxley College of the Environment
Bellingham WA
Laura is a Master of Science candidate at Huxley College of
the Environment at Western Washington University in Bellingham,
Washington. Laura received her
B.S. from Huxley College in 2005, where she studied invasive plants,
environmental toxicology and ecological risk assessment of genetically modified
organisms. Her current research
and career interests include population ecology of biological contaminants,
geospatial analysis, botany, and integrating social and economic impacts into
environmental assessments.
Tara Sharma
GIS Specialist
Parks Canada
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Sidney British Columbia
Tara Sharma is the GIS Specialist for the Gulf Islands
National Park Reserve. She is interested in applying GIS and remote sensing
techniques for park planning and management, specially for ecosystem mapping,
monitoring, protection, and restoration. Besides studying landscape changes,
she is also working on exploring use of LiDAR and hyperpsectral remote sensing
for forest canopy characterization. In her earlier career she worked as a
Remote Sensing Scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization.
Patrick Shaw
Senior Environmental Objectives Scientist
Environment Canada
Vancouver British Columbia
Patrick Shaw is a scientist with Environment Canada in
Vancouver.
Margaret Shield
Coalition Coordinator
Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition
Seattle WA
Hugh Shipman
Washington State Department of Ecology
Bellevue WA
Hugh Shipman has been a coastal geologist with Shorelands
Program of the Washington Department of Ecology since 1989. Mr. Shipman?s work is focused on the
shoreline of Puget Sound. His
interests include shoreline erosion and coastal landforms, landslides and
geologic hazards, beach nourishment and restoration, and the environmental
impacts of shoreline modification.
Hugh received a B.A. in Earth Sciences and Engineering from Dartmouth in
1981 and an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Washington in
1986.
Ginger Shoemaker
Graduate Student
University of Washington, Seattle
College of Forest Resources, UW Botanic Gardens
Seattle WA
Ginger Shoemaker is a beginning Ph.D. student at the
University of Washington studying Zostera marina ecology. She is an ARCS fellow and just recently moved to Seattle from
California where she completed a master?s degree at Humboldt State University
in marine botany and worked on a five-year Zostera marina monitoring project with California Sea Grant.
David H. Shull
Assistant Professor
Western Washington University
Department of Environmental Sciences
Bellingham WA
David Shull is an assistant professor in the Department of
Environmental Sciences, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington
University. David received a B.S.
in oceanography from the University of Washington, an M.S. in oceanography from
the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Environmental Science from the
University of Massachusetts Boston.
Before coming to Western he worked as a research associate at the
University of Maine and an assistant professor of biology at Gordon College,
Wenham, MA.
Charles A. Simenstad
Research Professor
University of Washington
School of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Charles Simenstad is a Research Profrofessor at the School of
Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, where he coordinates
the Wetland Ecosystem Team (WET). WET conducts interdisciplinary, applied and
basic research in estuarine and coastal marine shallow-water ecosystems, with
emphasis on their structure and dynamics, processes that support juvenile
salmon, restoration ecology and the distribution and role of invasive
organisms.
Robert C. Simmons
County Extension Director
Washington State University
Extension
Shelton WA
Bob Simmons is the Director of the WSU Mason County Extension
office, as well as the WSU Extension State Water Quality Coordinator. Over the past 14 years he has developed
a number of educational publications, videos, journal articles and has
established a number of outreach programs serving South Puget Sound. He has a MS in Water Resources
Management from the University of Rhode Island and a BS in Geomechanical
Engineering from the University of Rochester.
William Simonds
Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Tacoma WA
Bill Simonds works for the U.S. Geological Survey out of the
Washington Water Science Center in Tacoma, Washington. He has been involved in
a number of surface water-ground water interaction studies in western
Washington. His current research project involves measuring submarine
groundwater discharge as it relates to nutrient loading and the health of Hood
Canal.
Sara Singleton
Associate Professor
Western Washington University
Political Science
Bellingham WA
Sara Singleton is an associate professor in the Political
Science Department at Western Washington University. Garrett Bouldin is a graduate student in the Political
Science Department at WWU. This
research was funded by teh Border Policy Institute at Western Washington
University.
Teresa E. Sjostrom
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Belfair WA
Teresa Sjostrom graduated from Western Washington University
in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She began working with the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement
Group (HCSEG) as an intern, conducting stream habitat surveys over four
summers. As a HCSEG staff member,
her efforts are now focused on the Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program, a
Steelhead Supplementation Study, and a Derelict Fishing Gear Removal Program.
John W. Small
Landscape Planner
Anchor Environmental, LLC
Seattle WA
John Small is a Landscape Planner and Landscape Architect with
a strong interest in developing science based approaches to habitat restoration
and conservation.
Kaia Smith
Environmental Educator
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Office of Planning and Community Development
La Conner WA
Ms. Smith, an Alaska Native, is the Environmental Educator for
the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, La Conner, WA. Her work focuses on local youth, working in the Swinomish
preschool, the local school system, and in several local after-school
programs. She also provides
environmental education and outreach during community events, both at Swinomish
and in the surrounding local communities.
Daniele J. Spirandelli
University of Washington
Department of Urban Design and Planning
Seattle WA
Daniele Spirandelli is a PhD student at the University of
Washington, Department of Urban Design and Planning.
Julann A. Spromberg
Ecotoxicologist
NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Ecotoxicology Program
Seattle WA
Julann Spromberg is an ecotoxicologist at NOAA?s Northwest
Fisheries Science Center. Her
primary interests are in the impacts of chemical contaminants on threatened
salmon and other trust resources for NOAA. She uses mathematical models to forecast the
population-scale impacts of pollution.
She holds a doctorate in Toxicology from the University of Kentucky.
Brian Stahl
Senior Resource Planner
Kitsap Conservation District
Port Orchard WA
Brian Stahl has been a Senior Planner for the Kitsap
Conservation District since 1996. With a BS in Agriculture-Business from the
University of Wisconsin,River Falls and as a previous owner and operator of a
dairy farm in Wisconsin, Brian understands the challenges of resource
protection on a working farm.
Stephen Stanley
Washington State Department of Ecology
SEA Program
Bellevue WA
Mr. Stanley has a BS in Aquatic Biology and a BA in
Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara. For the past thirty years he has worked with local
governments to develop watershed management plans for coastal resources and
wetland assessment methods. He
presently works for the Washington Department Ecology where he has helped develop
a watershed based methodology for protecting and restoring aquatic resources.
Peter D. Steinberg
University of Washington
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seattle WA
Graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
coordinating streamwater sampling program in Hood Canal watershed.
Scott A. Steltzner
Research Fisheries Biologist
Squaxin Island Tribe
Natural Resources Department
Shelton WA
Scott Steltzner is a research fisheries biologist with the
Squaxin Island Tribe in Kamilche Washington. Studies of interest include early
marine life history for Pacific salmon.
Jeffrey Stern
King County
Department of Natural Resources and Parks
Seattle WA
Jeffrey Stern is an oceanographer with over 25 years
experience in Puget Sound. He
worked for the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority on the Puget Sound Ambient
Monitoring Program and was contaminated sediments and stormwater programs
lead. Jeff also developed
the PSAMP fish monitoring program, worked on the PSEP urban bay studies and is
a panel member of the Elliott Bay/Duwamish Restoration Program. He is currently working for King County
on sediment cleanups in Duwamish and Elliott Bay and modeling the transfer of
PCBs in Puget Sound.
Eric Stover
GIS Analyst
People for Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
estover@pugetsound.org
Eric Stover is a biologist with experience surveying and
monitoring wildlife, creating and managing databases, and analyzing spatial
data of wildlife habitat use patterns. His work has involved monitoring the
spatial and temporal patterns of threatened and endangered species in the
western Mojave Desert and in the Puget Sound region. Eric?s current efforts
include overseeing internal systems for data management and integration,
performing GIS analysis, preparing maps, and developing geospatial methodologies
for habitat restoration priorities.
Kristina Straus
Graduate Student - Research Assistant
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Kristi Straus is a graduate student at the University of
Washington, interested in research into the recovery of abalone species, and
Kerry Naish is an Assistant Professor,researching the evolutionary genetics,
genomics and conservation of aquatic animals.
Roger C. Sutherland
President
Pacific Water Resources, Inc.
Beaverton OR
Mr. Sutherland is a senior water resources engineer with 32
years of professional experience in watershed management planning and
modeling. As a consultant in the
1980s to the EPA?s NURP project in Bellevue, Washington, he studied the water
quality impacts of street sweeping practices. He recently completed a comprehensive study of the water
quality benefits of cleaning the Cross Israel Highway near Tel Aviv,
Israel. He is currently working on
Seattle?s Street Sweeping Pilot project.
Ruston M. Sweeting
Fisheries Biologist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
Dr. Sweeting has been with DFO for 10 years, and has been the
chief scientist at sea for this project almost as long. His research interests
include physiogical and physical responses of salmon to environmental stimuli
and change.
Randal Y. Taira
Senior Research Engineer
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Seattle WA
Renee K. Takesue
Research Geochemist
U.S. Geological Survey
Coastal & Marine Geology
Santa Cruz CA
Renee Takesue is a trace metal geochemist with the Coastal
& Marine Geology Team of the U.S. Geological Survey. Her work in the San Juan Archipelago,
Skagit Bay, and Liberty Bay explores relationships between nearshore biogeochemical
processes and ecosystem health.
Michael L. Taylor
Principal and Managing Partner
Cascade Economics LLC
Washougal WA
Michael L. Taylor, Ph.D., is a natural resource economist and
principal of Cascade Economics LLC.
He has more than 20 years of experience conducting applied economic
studies. His expertise includes
economic analysis, computer modeling, and quantitative methods applied to
issues related to water resources and water rights, fish and wildlife
valuation, the Endangered Species Act, and feasibility analysis. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University.
Randy Taylor
Washington State Department of Agriculture
Olympia WA
William J. Taylor
Taylor Associates, Inc.
Seattle WA
Bill Taylor is an aquatic ecosystems scientist with over twenty
years experience in ecological monitoring and restoration. His work involves both fresh and
aquatic environments, and has included habitat restoration design and
ecological assessment of the Duwamish River estuary, including restoration
sites.
Sue Texeira
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Hood Canal Coordinating Council
Poulsbo WA
As the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Hood Canal
Coordinating Council, Sue coordinates and partners with communities and
agencies on natural resources and environmental protection and restoration
education. Ms. Texeira has also
worked for Washington Sea Grant as a Continuing Education Coordinator. Sue has a BS degree in Environmental
Science and Community from Evergreen State College.
Thomas Therriault
Research Scientist
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nanaimo British Columbia
Dr. Therriault is a research scientist with the Canadian
Department of Fisheries and Oceans at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo
and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Windsor. He is an active member of both the
CAISN network and DFO?s AIS program with research projects under each of the
major themes. In addition to his
AIS projects, Dr. Therriault also conducts research on forage species including
Pacific herring and eulachon.
Ronald M. Thom
Staff Scientist
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory
Sequim WA
Dr. Ronald Thom, who leads the Coastal Assessment and
Restoration technical group at the Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory in
Sequim, Washington, has over 35 years of experience as an estuarine and coastal
ecologist, and fisheries biologist.
Dr. Thom?s research is applied to marine and estuarine systems and
includes habitat construction and restoration; adaptive management of restored
systems; effects of pollution; benthic primary production; climate change;
invasive species; and ecology of fisheries resources.
Keith B. Tierney
PhD Student
Simon Fraser University
Biological Sciences
Burnaby British Columbia
I am PhD student in my fourth year of study. I hold a BSc in biology (SFU), an MSc
in fish physiology (completed with A.P. Farrell at SFU), and an MBA (UBC). This presentation is a collaboration
between Simon Fraser University, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Environment
Canada.
Steve W. Todd
Habitat Biologist
Point No Point Treaty Council
Kingston WA
I have been employed with the Point No Point Treaty Council
for about 7 years, involved mainly in salmonid habitat assessment and
conservation. I have a Bachelors
Degree in Environmental Science (Watershed Planning) from Western Washington
University, and a Master of Science Degree in Fisheries Resources from the
University of Idaho.
Jason Toft
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle WA
Jason Toft is a nearshore research ecologist at the University
of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, whose primary scientific
interests revolve around the ecology of aquatic estuarine and nearshore
habitats, biological monitoring of restored wetlands, juvenile salmonid
abundance and prey resource dynamics, effects of non-indigenous species on
native communities, and taxonomy of aquatic invertebrates.
Tomas Tomascik
Senior Advisor Marine Conservation
Parks Canada
Western and Northern Service Centre
Vancouver British Columbia
Current position with Parks Canada. BSc from University of
Toronto, PhD from McGill University. Primary focus on the development and
establishement of National Marine Conservation Areas in BC.
Vera L. Trainer
Research Oceanographer
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental
Conservation Division
Seattle WA
Dr. Vera Trainer is the Program Manager of the Marine Biotoxin
group at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Current research activities include refinement of analytical
methods for both marine toxin and toxigenic species detection, assessment of
environmental conditions that influence toxic bloom development and
understanding shellfish susceptibility to toxins in their environment. She is the co-PI on a regional Ecology
and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) research project that will
study Pseudo-nitzschia blooms off the WA coast over the next 5 years. Trainer is the lead investigator of the
Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) project, a regional monitoring
effort involving federal, state and local agencies, coastal tribes, and academic
institutions. Dr. Trainer received
her B.S. in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and both her M.S.
in Biological Oceanography, and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at
the University of Miami, with postgraduate studies in the Pharmacology
Department at the University of Washington.
Heather Trim
Urban Bays Coordinator
People For Puget Sound
Seattle WA
Heather Trim, Urban Bays Project Coordinator for People For
Puget Sound, has more than 15 years of experience in environmental work (BS,
Geology, PhD, Geochemistry). In Los Angeles, she worked for the Regional Water
Quality Control Board on water quality standards, regulatory permits, and
pollution assessments of both surface and ground water for Los Angeles and
Ventura Counties. She then was staff scientist for the Los Angeles and San
Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council focusing on various projects leading to the
greening of the rivers, including water quality, stormwater issues, pollution
assessments and habitat renewal. She joined People For Puget Sound in 2002 and
works on Seattle policy issues and on toxics Puget Sound-wide.
Alex H. Uber
Salmon Habitat Restoration Specialist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Habitat Program
Olympia WA
Alex Uber:
Bachelor Degrees in Civil Engineering and Biology, Portland State
University in Portland Oregon.
Professional Engineering (PE) licenses in OR and WA. Following a 6 year career in engineering,
has worked as a Salmon Habitat Biologist with WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
since 1999. Currently manages fish
passage barrier removal projects on WDFW owned lands in Eastern Washington
state.
Vince VanBeelen
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Surrey British Columbia
Biologist for Ducks Unlimited for three years involved in the
Delta Watefowl Compensation Program, Fraser Delta North Puget Sound Spatial and
Temporal Habitat Study, Comox Valley Watefowl Management Program, etc.
Elizabeth Waddell
Air Resources Specialist
National Park Service
Seattle WA
Elizabeth has worked for the National Park Service for four
years. Prior to that, she worked
for the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, and the California Air Resources Board. Her degree is in atmospheric science
from the University of California at Davis
Veronica M. Wahl
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia
Resource Management and Environmental Studies
Vancouver British Columbia
I am a PhD Candidate in Resource Management and Environmental
Studies at UBC. My research focus is on environmental stewardship volunteering
in the Lower Mainland, BC. This work builds the MES work I did at York
University, which included a case study of a community-based environmental
organization. I have been involved for several years with many environmental
stewardship organizations and initiatives as a researcher, coordinator, member,
and active volunteer.
Micah M. Wait
Conservation Ecologist
Wild Fish Conservancy
Research and Restoration
Duvall WA
Micah Wait is an ecologist with Washington Trout. He has spent
the last 5 years working to preserve and restore Washington?s wild fish and the
ecosystems they depend on through research and restoration projects.
Hu Wallis
Director
Environmental Quality Branch
BC Ministry of Environment
Hu Wallis is the director of the Environmental Quality Branch
of the BC Ministry of Environment. His branch responsibilities include air
quality and climate change, both of which are the focus of increasing
government priority. Hu has post-graduate training in air pollution
meteorology, and managed the provincial air program for 15 years. The
provincial program relies on strong partnerships with local and federal
governments, and links to primary and applied science to guide decisions.
Tim Walls
Senior Planner
Snohomish County
Tim Walls is the Lead Entity Coordinator for the Snohomish
River Basin. As a Senior Planner at Snohomish County Public Works Surface Water
Management, he is also the Endangered Species Act Program Lead for the
Division. Tim?s background is varied, from engineering to an MBA in
International Business and most recently a Master?s in Ecological and Natural
Resources Planning from the University of British Columbia. Tim has worked with
environmental groups, First Nations, farmers and a conservation district
enacting on-the-ground conservation of our natural ecosystems
Shaun A. Watmough
Trent University
Environmental and Resource Studies
Peterborough Ontario
Faculty member Environmental Resource Studies, Trent University
Gordon F. Weetman
University of British Columbia
Vancouver British Columbia
Professor emeritus of Forest Science with 30 years of study of
forest fertilzation and forest nutrition issues in Canada.
James E. West
Research Scientist
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Marine Resources Division
Olympia WA
Jim West received his B.Sc. in Marine Biology from Southampton
College, Long Island, NY in 1980, and his M.Sc. in Zoology from the University
of Hawaii in 1985. He has been
with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife since 1990, and has worked
in Puget Sound on research projects dealing with artificial reefs, function of
nearshore habitats as nurseries for juvenile rockfishes, drift algae habitats,
rockfish growth and genetics, and toxic contaminants in marine and anadromous
species. He is also keenly
interested in developing a better understanding of the effects of human
activities on the healthy function of Puget Sound?s ecosystem.
Robert G. Whyte
Manager
Pacific Trident Fishing Co. Ltd.
Research
Duncan British Columbia
Has been active in the abalone industry since 1966,
harvesting, processing, rearing and marketing. Constructed and operated a
hatchery plus a small turn key operation for ten years in the Victoria area.
Designed, constructed and managed for five years Bamfield Huu ay aht community
abalone project implementing a stock recovery program.
Christianne E. Wilhelmson
Clean Air and Water Program Coordinator
Georgia Strait Alliance
Vancouver British Columbia
Christianne Wilhelmson has been the Clean Air and Water
Program Coordinator for the Georgia Strait Alliance since 2002. She has a M.Sc.
(Ecology) from UBC, and has worked on environmental issues in BC since 2001.
Prior to this, she worked as a researcher and lab instructor at the University
of British Columbia. Christianne also works as a freelance science writer for
the non-governmental sector, along with a variety of other agencies.
Ian Williamson
Masters Candidate
Simon Fraser University
School of Resource and Environmental Management
Burnaby British Columbia
Ian Williamson returned to school after nearly 9 years in the
GVRD?s water quality laboratory as a sampler, lab technician, and
bacteriologist/analyst. He has traveled extensively and worked in federal,
provincial, and private environmental and quality control positions. Ian?s
research interest is in integrative watershed planning and management and the
effects of climate change on water supply and quality.
Christopher Wilson
Director, Resource Enhancement Program
Island County
Planning and Community Development
Coupeville WA
For past 9 years, Chris served as an Environmental Health
Specialist for Island County, Washington.
Before that, he monitored water quality for the City of Portland
(Oregon), and in Idaho. He also
did habitat assessments in the Chehalis River Basin for US Fish and Wildlife
Service. He graduated from Eastern
Washington University in 1992 with a BS in Biology.
Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria
Research Scientist
University of Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories and UW Botanic Gardens
Friday Harbor WA
Dr. S. Wyllie-Echeverria is a Research Scientist, UW Botanic
Gardens and Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington. His expertise lies in the field of
seagrass ecology and ethnobotany, primarily with temperate species in the
Northeast Pacific.
Tina Wyllie-Echeverria
Wyllie-Echeverria Associates/ Samish Indian Nation
Shaw Island WA
Tina Wyllie-Echeverria is a fisheries oceanographer who has
worked on the life history and habitat of Pacific coast rockfishes,
environmental impacts on juvenile walleye pollock and habitat preference of
juvenile salmonids. She is
currently working in San Juan County, Washington on basic salmonid life history
requirements and habitat restoration actions.
Zhaoqing Yang
Senior Research Scientist
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory
Seattle WA
Dr. Yang is a senior scientist in the coastal and water
resources modeling group. He has more than 20 years of experience in numerical
modeling of estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics and transport processes, as
well as general physical oceanography and ocean engineering. He has conducted
many studies related to estuarine hydrodynamics, coastal ocean circulation,
estuarine and wetland restoration, and sediment and fate transport using 3-D
numerical models. Dr. Yang also has extensive experience in Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) modeling, groundwater modeling, river flood and magangement
analysis.
Gina M. Ylitalo
Supervisory Research Chemist
NOAA Fisheries / National Marine Fisheries Service
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental
Conservation Division
Seattle WA
Gina Ylitalo is a supervisory research chemist at the
Environmental Conservation Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center in
Seattle, WA. Her research
interests include assessing links between exposure to chemical contaminants and
potential health effects to marine mammals and fish as well as developing
methods to analyze for new contaminants of interest in marine sediments and
biota.
Anliang A. Zhong
Research Associate
University of British Columbia
Forest Sciences
Vancouver British Columbia
I am a research associate at the University of British
Columbia. My research interests include nutrient cycling in forests, forest
nutrition and fertilization, biosolids land application as an organizer
fertilizer or soil amendment, and forest health and productivity related to
acid rain
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