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Bozeman, Montana, United States

Project Manager for the Gallatin Home River Initiative. I manage restoration projects as well as outreach, stakeholder coordination, and fundraising.

Naches, Washington

Managing fisheries enhancement projects in the Naches region of the Yakima River Basin. Duties also include project development, grant writing, outreach and education, habitat surveys, and employee hiring and supervision.

Ellensburg, Washington

Crew lead for a sampling effort using eDNA to establish the current distribution of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in the Upper Yakima River Basin. Data from this project will help prioritize future recovery actions for multiple threatened populations of bull trout. Duties include hitch planning and coordination, supervising, eDNA sampling, data.

Working for Central Washington University's Biology Department and the Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. Leading tours and conducting outreach with students K-12 as well as the general public.

Entiat, WA

Working on crews of 2-5 technicians for abundance estimates using various capture methods for status and trend monitoring of ESA listed steelhead and chinook salmon in the Entiat and Wenatchee river basins. Fish capture methods include backpack electroshocking, night snorkeling, minnow traps, seining and angling. Further responsibilities include data.

Twisp, WA

Fall: Conducting spawning grounds surveys on the Methow river via raft and by foot for the upper Columbia Coho Reintroduction Program. Brood stock collection, floy tag insertion, adult salmonid identification, spawning, biological sampling: scale, fork, POH, snounts and tissue for parental based tracking.Spring: Operation of adult fish weirs collecting.

Pasco, WA

Working with Chinook salmon on the Hanford Reach. Motorboat operation on the Columbia River serving as a crew leader supervising 2-3 people daily for a Chinook carcass survey. In addition, I conducted creel surveys, maintained equipment, communicated with the public, preformed fecundity estimates, determined spawning success, sampled otoliths and scales.

Collecting data on Chinook salmon and Steelhead trout migration. Operating and maintaining fish traps on the Clearwater and Snake Rivers. Identifying juvenile salmonids, clearing debris, using PTAGIS, operating jet boats

I worked as waterbird technician spending up to a month at a time in remote field camps collecting data in an effort to identify the impact of climactic warming of boreal wetlands on waterbird populations. Here I conducted waterfowl surveys, collected water samples and gathered invertebrate samples. In addition I used GPS devices to locate sample sites.

Pullman, WA

I assisted graduate students by processing fish samples for stable isotope analysis, collecting fish tissue samples, identifying invertebrates present in fish stomachs, filtering and processing lake water samples, entering data into spread sheets, measuring suspended solids, etc.

Master Of Science (Ms) Biology, Fisheries And Stream Ecology

Thesis Project- Salmonids in an Urban Stream: Movement, Potential Barriers and Fragmented Habitat The purpose of this project was to.

Bs Degree, Natural Resource Sciences

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