Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference
Speaker Biographies
A
Lee Ann Acker
Undergraduate Student
University of Washington, Tacoma
12517 107th Ave Ct E
Puyallup, WA 98402
leeacker@comcast.net
Tel: (253) 307-4148
Fax: (253) 307-4148
The Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution in Aquatic Environments on Metallothionein Production in Mytilus sp.
(A10)
Lee Ann Acker is an undergraduate student in the Environmental Science program at
the University of Washington,
Tacoma. Her primary research interests are species
diversity in tropical rain forests and restoration ecology. After graduation in June 2005, Lee Ann will
continue in restoration by interning as a Range Technician at the Eastern
Oregon Agricultural
Research Center
with Dr. Jane Mangold.
Sandra Aasen
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental
Assessment Program
Olympia, WA
sgei461@ecy.wa.gov
Sediment Quality in the
San Juan Islands, Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Admiralty Inlet (P2)
Sediment Quality in
Hood Canal P2)
Sandra
Aasen is an environmental specialist 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 1994 conducting the
Sediment Component of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program (PSAMP). Ms
Aasen received her Master of Science degree from Evergreen State College in
1997.
Tim
W. Abbe
Herrera
Environmental Consultants
2200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100
Seattle, WA 98121
tabbe@herrerainc.com
Tel: 206 - 441- 9080
Fax: 206 - 441- 9108
URL: http://www.herrerainc.com/
Bulkheading
in Thurston County: Impacts on Forage Fish Spawning Habitat (A7)
Tim
is currently Director of River and Coastal Geomorphology at Herrera
Environmental Consultants in Seattle, WA.
Tim received his MS degree from Portland
State University
and his PhD from the University of Washington.
Over the last 20 years Tim has worked in academics, government and the private
sector on issues such as sediment transport, shoreline erosion, the effects of
riparian vegetation, geologic hazards, and habitat restoration. Tim's has
studied shoreline processes and tidal wetlands up and down the west coast,
including the Lower Columbia River, Grays
Harbor, Puget Sound, and numerous locations
along the California Coast.
Currently his work tends to focus on evaluating geomorphic processes that
threaten infrastructure, the role of development in habitat degradation, and
presenting sustainable solutions to protect people and the environment.
Marina Alberti
Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning
University
of Washington
410
Gould Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195-5740
malberti@u.washington.edu
Tel: 206-616-8667
Fax: 206-685-9597
URL: www.urbaneco.washington.edu
Developing Landscape
Benchmarks to Monitor Urban Growth in Puget Sound (F7)
Marina
Alberti is Associate professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the
Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University
of Washington. She teaches courses
in Urban Ecology, Environmental Impact Management, Geographic Information
Systems, and Group Dynamic and Conflict resolution. Her research interests are
in the impacts of alternative urban development patterns on ecosystem dynamics.
She is currently directing a NSF funded research project aimed to study how
changes in land use alter the biophysical structure and affect ecosystem
dynamics in the Puget Sound region. She is also
developing a simulation model that integrates urban development and ecological
dynamics.
Storrs
“Skip” L. Albertson
WA State Dept. of Ecology
EAP
Olympia, WA
alberts@ocean.washington.edu
Principle Component
Analysis for Uniqueness in Puget Sound Hydrographic Stations (1989-2003) - Let
the Data Speak! (E7)
Skip
Albertson, P.E., is an Environmental Engineer and Physical Oceanographer for
the Washington State Department of Ecology. His work includes applying a
modeling approach towards understanding water quality data including TMDLs, circulation
studies, residual flow and residence time evaluations.
Diana M. Allen
Associate Professor and Chair
Department
of Earth Sciences
Simon
Fraser University
8888
University Drive
Burnaby,
BC V5A
1S6
dallen@sfu.ca
Tel: 604-291-3967
Fax: 604-291-4198
URL: http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences
Modeled Climate Change
Impacts in the Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer, Central Fraser Lowland of BC, Canada
and Washington State, US. (E3)
Dr.
Diana Allen (P.Geo) is an Associate Professor of hydrogeology at Simon
Fraser University.
Her research involves characterizing aquifers using geophysical, geochemical
and isotopic techniques and numerical modeling. She is currently working
collaboratively with federal, provincial, regional government and industry
partners on several projects including the hydrogeology of the Gulf Islands
(geochemistry and fractured rock aquifer characterization), the Abbotsford
aquifer (nitrate contamination), and Okanagan Basin (recharge and impact of
climate change on groundwater resources).
Eric M. Anderson
University of Wyoming
Dept.
of Zoology and Physiology
Laramie
WY
emander@uwyo.edu
The value of herring
spawning events to spring conditioning of scoters in the Puget Sound Georgia
Basin (A5)
Eric
Anderson received a B.S. in biology and mathematics from the University
of Puget Sound in 1994, and an M.S.
in Zoology and Physiology from the University
of Wyoming in 2002. Eric has worked
as a research associate with the Teton
Science School
and The Nature Conservancy and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Zoology and Physiology at the University
of Wyoming.
Joseph Anderson
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
joeander@u.washington.edu
Above the dam: salmon
colonization in the Cedar River, Washington (A3)
Joseph
Anderson earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford
University in 2001, with a research
focus on developmental genetics. He investigated steelhead trout population
genetics as a technician for the NOAA Fisheries molecular ecology team in Santa
Cruz, CA in 2002-03. Mr. Anderson
is currently a graduate student in the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at
the University of Washington,
and is interested in the evolutionary ecology of salmonid fishes.
Roger G. Anderson
Battelle, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
Seattle, WA
andersrg@battelle.org
Application of NASA
Earth Science Data to Landscape-Scale Resource Management Needs in the Pacific
Northwest: An Institutional Collaboration (P4)
Roger
Anderson is a Senior Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory. He directs programs focused
on environmental technologies, natural resources, sustainable development and
institutional capacity building. Mr.
Anderson presently serves as Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest Regional
Collaboratory, a collaborative effort among four universities and two national
laboratories to develop applications of NASA data to address critical issues in Water and land resources management and sustainable development in the Pacific
Northwest.
Roland C. Anderson
Seattle
Aquarium - Life Sciences
Seattle, WA
roland.anderson@seattle.gov
The Annual Census of
Giant Pacific octopuses in Puget Sound (P1)
Roland
C. Anderson, Ph.D., is a biologist at the Seattle Aquarium where he has worked
for 27 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.
Lucy Applegate
Outreach Coordinator
Skagit
Fisheries Enhancement Group
PO
Box 2497 Mount Vernon, WA
98273
lapplegate@skagitfisheries.org
Tel: 360-336-0172
Fax: 360-336-0701
URL: www.skagitfisheries.org
Stream Stewards A
Community Stream Awareness Program (P6)
Lucy
Applegate holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources from the Ohio
State University,
and has worked with SFEG since 1999.
Before moving to Washington,
Lucy worked as a naturalist in Ohio,
conducting interpretive programs for children and adults. Lucy’s responsibilities as Outreach
Coordinator include recruiting, training, and managing volunteers for habitat
restoration projects, and conducting educational programs throughout the
community. Lucy teams with volunteers
and other educators to design and present programs to adult civic groups and
student groups in grades K-12. She also
manages SFEG’s website, and production of The Redd, SFEG’s newsletter.
Jessica Archer
Washington State
BEACH Database Coordinator
Washington
State Department of Ecology
300
Desmond Dr SE, Lacey
PO
Box 47710
Olympia, WA 98504-7710
jarc461@ecy.wa.gov
Tel: (360) 407-6159
Fax: (360) 407-6884
URL: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/beach/
The Beach Environmental
Assessment, Communication, and Health (BEACH) Program: Results and Trends from
2004 (B1)
Jessica
Archer graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2002 with a B.S. focused
on marine molecular biology and geographic information systems. She currently
works at the Department of Ecology as the Washington State BEACH Database
Coordinator compiling information on Washington’s
marine beaches to identify beaches which are most at risk and data-streaming
sample results from these sites to a large EPA database. Her interests include
the study of marine systems including the relationship between levels of
microbiological indicators and human illness rates for marine waters and
improving and stream-lining the management and analysis of marine data.
Peter Bahls
Northwest Watershed Institute
Port
Townsend WA
peter@nwwatershed.org
High straying rates of
hatchery coho in upper Hood Canal tributaries (A3)
Links, chains and
witness trees - using historical research to guide watershed restoration
(F7)
Peter
Bahls earned an M.S. in Fisheries Science and Aquatic Ecology from Oregon
State University,
worked for six years as the habitat biologist for the Port Gamble S’Klallam
Tribe, 3 years as the senior fish biologist for David Evans and Associates, and
has served as the founding director of Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI) since
2001. NWI is a nonprofit organization that provides scientific and technical
assistance for watershed restoration.
Robin W. Baird
Cascadia Research Collective
Olympia, WA
rwbaird@cascadiaresearch.org
Diving behavior of
"southern resident" killer whales in the trans-boundary waters of
British Columbia and Washington: implications for foraging ecology (A2)
Robin
W. Baird has undertaken research on cetaceans in the trans-boundary region in
15 of the last 19 years. His Ph.D. (from Simon
Fraser University,
1994) focused on foraging ecology of “transient” killer whales in the
trans-boundary region. While most of his current research focuses on ecology
and population assessment of Hawaiian odontocetes, he is continuing his studies
of the foraging ecology of killer whales around the San Juan Islands.
David H.Baldwin
NOAA Fisheries, NWFSC
EC
Division
Seattle, WA
david.baldwin@noaa.gov
Comparative thresholds
for acetylcholinesterase inhibition and behavioral impairment in coho salmon
exposed to chlorpyrifos. (P2)
David
Baldwin is an ORISE intern at NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest
Fisheries Science
Center. His research is focused on
the sublethal impacts of contaminants on the sensory physiology and behavior of
fish. He received his doctorate in Zoology from the University
of Washington (Seattle, WA) studying the physiology and behavior of
the visual system of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
Greg Bargmann
Washington
Dept of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, WA
bargmggb@dfw.wa.gov
Management of Forage
Fish in Puget Sound and the Georgia Basin (A7)
Greg
Bargmann is Marine Fish Manager for the Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife where he has worked for the past 30 years on management of marine fish
populations and fisheries.
Russel L. Barsh
Center for the Study of Coast Salish Environments
Anacortes WA
rbarsh@samishtribe.nsn.us
Archaeological Evidence
for Sustainability of Coast Salish Sea Urchin Harvesting (D3)
Russel
Barsh is director of the Center for the Study of Coast Salish Environments,
established by the Samish Indian Nation to pursue “science for stewardship” in
the San Juan archipelago. He
studies the impact of indigenous peoples on the structure of Salish
Sea ecosystems, and develops tools
for identifying the “fingerprints” of early humans in sediments, soils, and
middens. He previously taught at the University
of Washington, and worked at the
United Nations.
Harriet Beale
Acting Director of Programs
Puget
Sound Action Team
PO
Box 40900
Olympia, WA 98504-0900
hbeale@psat.wa.gov
Tel: 360-725-5442
Fax: 360-725-5456
URL: www.psat.wa.gov
New Approaches to
Shellfish Protection in Puget Sound (A8)
Harriet
Beale joined the Action Team staff in February 1999 and serves as Acting
Director of Programs. Her experience includes work as a planner for Jefferson
County and as Water Resources
Manager for the Lummi Indian Nation. Harriet has a BA in Geography and Regional
Planning and an MS in Geology from Western, Washington University.
Her graduate work was in the area of geomorphology, hydrology, and shorelines
geology.
Janie Beasley
Swinomish Tribal Member
Swinomish Earth
Enhancement Celebrations 2003-2005: The Planning Process (D3)
I
am a LaConner School Board Member and Community Resource Committee Chairman for
the Early College High School Credits for a grant received through Antioch
University. I volunteer for the Swinomish Recreation
Committee; Health, Education & Social Services Committee; Veteran’s
Committee and the Earth Day Committee.
My interests are reading, sewing, volunteering at my church and tribal
events, and spending time with family and friends. I have been married for 30 years and the
mother of two.
Anne Beaudreau
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
annebeau@u.washington.edu
Diet and prey size
spectrum of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), a top predator in rocky reefs of the
San Juan Archipelago (E5)
Anne
Beaudreau completed a Bachelors degree in biology at Harvard
University in 2001. Currently, she
is a second year Masters student in the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at
the University of Washington
studying under Dr. Timothy Essington. Anne’s research focuses on the role of
predation in structuring prey populations in marine reserves and nearby fished
areas within the San Juan Archipelago.
Timothy J. Beechie
NW Fisheries Science
Center
Watershed
Program
Seattle, WA
tim.beechie@noaa.gov
Alteration of channel
and ecosystem dynamics downstream of Elwha dams (A1)
Tim
Beechie has worked in fisheries resource management since 1985, with experience
ranging from assessments of fish populations in West African lakes to studies
of land use effects on salmon production. His current research interests
include development of process-based habitat restoration strategies, impacts of
sediment supply changes on channels and habitat, the formation and evolution of
floodplain habitats, and impacts of land uses and dam removal on dynamics of
floodplain ecosystems.
Sharon M. Bennett
University of British
Columbia
Resource
Management and Environmental Studies
Vancouver
B.C.
smbennet@interchange.ubc.ca
The Biodegradation of
Methanol in the Fraser River (P2)
Sharon
Bennett is a MSc student at the University
of British Columbia in the
Department of Resource Management and Environmental Studies. Her studies have
focused mainly on aquatic ecology, water pollution, and integrated assessment.
Past work has included working as a Habitat Biologist with Fisheries and Oceans
in the habitat management branch in Burlington,
Ontario. She has also assisted an
interdisciplinary research project in Pacific Rim
National Park on the impact of
human behaviour on intertidal health.
Matthew Bernard
USCG Region X Regional Response Team Coordinator
D13
Marine Safety
915
2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98174
Matthew.P.Bernard@uscg.mil
Tel: 206-220-7215
The Pacific North West
Regional Contingency Planning Process (C10)
IH,
ASP, REM. Region X Regional Response Team Coordinator for the
Helen D. Berry
WA Dept. of Natural Resources
Nearshore
Habitat Program, Aquatic Resources Div.
Olympia, WA
helen.berry@wadnr.gov
Using Historical Data
to Estimate Changes in Floating Kelp (Nereocystis leutkana and Macrocystis
integrifolia) in Puget Sound, Washington (F7)
Helen
Berry is a coastal ecologist with the Washington State Department of Natural
Resources’ Nearshore Habitat Program, part of the Puget Sound Ambient
Monitoring Program. She works on projects that track spatial patterns and
temporal trends in littoral habitats in Puget Sound.
Research interests include: 1) habitat inventory and classification; 2) aquatic
vegetation monitoring, particularly kelp and eelgrass; and 3) biotic community
monitoring. She has a Masters in Oceanography from Oregon
State University.
Stan Bertold
Superintendent, Environmental Monitoring
Greater
Vancouver Regional District
4330
Kingsway
Burnaby,
BC.
Tel: 604-451-6007
Fax: 604-451-6019
Stan.bertold@gvrd.bc.ca
Application
of cautions, warnings and triggers to benthos for the GVRD marine WWTP outfalls
(B1)
Ecological
significance of sediment biotic and geochemical effects related to the Iona
WWTP outfall discharge to the Strait of Georgia off Sturgeon Bank (B2)
Stan
Bertold is the Superintendent of Environmental Monitoring for the Quality
Control Division, Operations and Maintenance Department of the Greater
Vancouver Regional District (GVRD). www.gvrd.bc.ca
Peter Namtvedt Best
City of Bainbridge
Island
Integration
of Joint City of Bainbridge Island/Suquamish Tribal Beach Seining Results into
Shoreline Management and Salmon Recovery Efforts in Kitsap County, Washington
(B9)
Peter
Namtvedt Best has a BA from Huxley College
at Western Washington
University and is a Long-Range
Planner for the City of Bainbridge Island working primarily on shoreline
management and salmon recovery.
Marc Beutel
Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
, Washington State University
PO Box 642910, Pullman, WA 99164-2910
mbeutel@wsu.edu
Tel: (509) 335-3721
Targeted Oxygen
Addition to Hood Canal: A Potential Management Strategy to Ameliorate the
Impacts of Hypoxia (D6)
Marc
Beutel is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington
State University.
Marc has extensive experience evaluating the limnology of California
lakes and reservoirs with a particular emphasis on quantifying internal
nutrient loading and hypolimnetic oxygen demand. Dr. Beutel is the author
of numerous reports and journal articles on lake restoration including “A
review of the effects of hypolimnetic oxygenation on lake and reservoir water
quality” and “Hypolimnetic Anoxia and Sediment Oxygen Demand in California
Drinking Water Reservoirs”, both in the Journal of Lake and Reservoir
Management. Dr. Beutel’s current
research interests include mercury cycling in lake sediments and control of
pesticides in agricultural and urban runoff using natural treatment systems
such as constructed wetlands.
Sandra M. Bicego
Dovetail Consulting Inc.
Vancouver
B.C.
sandra@dovetailconsulting.com
Indigenous Involvement
In The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (D1)
Sandra
holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University
of Western Australia, and a Masters
from the School of Community
and Regional Planning, University of British
Columbia. An associate of Dovetail Consulting
since 1999, Sandra designs and facilitates multi-stakeholder processes and
provide strategic facilitation services in organizational development for
non-profit organizations, First Nations, agencies, and corporations. Areas of
interest include marine and fisheries planning, recreation and tourism policy
development, and corporate social responsibility.
Marcie Demmy Bidwell
Research Assistant
University
of Washington
410
Gould Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195-5740
marciedb@u.washington.edu
URL: www.urbaneco.washington.edu
Assessing the Impacts
of Urbanization on Shellfish Growing Areas in Puget Sound, Washington (B7)
Marcie
Bidwell is a research assistant in the Urban Ecology Research Laboratory and
student in the Built Environment Program at the University
of Washington. She received her
Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University
of Washington. Her research
explores ecological design and social sciences for landscape and watershed
planning.
Philip L. Bloch
Washington
DNR
Aquatics
Division
Olympia, WA
philip.bloch@wadnr.gov
Beyond Boundaries -
Turning Conservation Targets into Conserved Areas (D10)
Philip
Bloch provides scientific support for conservation and restoration initiatives
of the Aquatics Division of Washington DNR. He studied landscape ecology as a
graduate student at Duke University
prior to moving to the Pacific Northwest, where he
applies ecological and technical skills to restoration and conservation
planning efforts.
Thomas D. Bloxton
USDA Forest
Service
Pacific
Northwest Research Station
Olympia, WA
tbloxton@fs.fed.us
Status and Trend of the
Marbled Murrelet in Waters of the Puget Sound (A5)
Tom
Bloxton recently completed a Master’s Thesis in the University
of Washington’s College
of Forest Resources - Wildlife
Science Group on the foraging ecology of Northern Goshawks in western Washington.
Currently he is the lead biologist on the PNW Research Station’s Marbled
Murrelet project involved with monitoring population size and nesting habitat
availability, and conducting research into the breeding ecology of this elusive
seabird species using radiotelemetry.
John F. Boettner
Washington
Dept of Natural Resources
Aquatics
Division
Olympia WA
jboe490@wadnr.gov
Using the Internet for
Promoting Environmental Stewardship at WDNR (F10)
John
Boettner, BS Fisheries Biology UW 1975 1976 - Employed with WDFW, specializing
in forage fish biology, hydroacoustic stock assessment of herring, hake, and
other pelagic species, pioneered efforts to assess coastal Black Rockfish and
habitat, etc. 1992 - WDFW Marine Habitat Biologist in King, Pierce, Clallam,
Kitsap, Jefferson, and Snohomish
Counties. 1998 - WDNR Environmental
Specialist working in all facets of landscape ecology using this background to
become a WDNR webmaster.
Lynne Bonner
BC Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection
Victoria
B.C.
The British Columbia
Coast and Marine Environment Project (P5)
Lynne
Bonner has been working in the BC Ministry of Water, Land & Air
Protection’s State of Environment Reporting
unit for the past 2 years. Over the past
16 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 the BC Coast & Marine Environment project, focusing on measures
of coastal ecosystem health and investigating ways of incorporating Traditional
Ecological Knowledge into environmental reporting.
Amy B. Borde
Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory
Coastal
Assessment and Restoration
Sequim, WA
amy.borde@pnl.gov
A Conceptual Model Tool
for Coastal Management (D4)
Ms.
Amy Borde specializes in wetland ecology and restoration. Recent research has
included assessment of eelgrass meadows in Puget Sound
and Northwest coastal estuaries; the development of innovative methods for propagating
and transplanting seagrass; the assessment of areas proposed for mitigation;
and use of adaptive management principles in monitoring programs. She uses GIS for identifying the aerial
extent of eelgrass meadows and wetlands, comparing historical habitats with
existing conditions, and locating specific areas for restoration.
Julia K. Bos
Washington State Department of Ecology
Coastal
& Estuarine Assessment Unit
Olympia, WA
jbos461@ecy.wa.gov
Interannual
variation in water quality variables in Puget Sound as revealed by time-series
analysis (E7)
The
Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership: A Forum for Regional
Coordination (P5)
I
am an oceanographer employed by the Washington State Dept. of Ecology, working
in the Marine Waters Monitoring Group. Currently my work focuses on long-term
monitoring of Puget Sound and Washington
coastal waters, and applying new technologies to this effort, as well as
developing methodologies for treatment of historical data. I received my B.S.
in Chemical Oceanography from the University
of Washington.
John L. Bower
Western Washington
University
Fairhaven
College
Bellingham, WA
jbower@cc.wwu.edu
Marine Bird Abundance
Changes In N. W. Washington Inshore Waters (A5)
John
teaches field biology, natural history, evolution, environmental issues, and
folk music performance at Fairhaven College,
an inter-disciplinary college within Western, Washington University.
His current research involves repeating important components of the 1970’s MESA
census to document recent marine bird population changes in inshore marine Waters, censusing wintering bald eagle populations along the Nooksack
River, categorizing marbled
murrelet vocalizations, and studying acoustic interactions in songbirds.
Sean W. Boyd
Pacific Wildlife Research Centre
Canadian
Wildlife Service
Delta
B.C.
sean.boyd@ec.gc.ca
Wrangel
Island (Russia) Snow Geese wintering on the Fraser and Skagit River deltas:
population dynamics and interaction with Scirpus marshes. (A6)
Dr.
Boyd received his PhD from Simon Fraser Univ. in 1995. His thesis was on the
ecology of the Snow Goose population wintering on the Fraser and Skagit
River deltas. Dr. Boyd works on a
variety of different birds species, including Snow and Brant Geese, Trumpeter
Swans, scoters, Harlequin Ducks and Barrow’s Goldeneye.
Jill M. Brandenberger
Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine
Research Operations
Sequim, WA
Jill.Brandenberger@pnl.gov
The ENVVEST Approach
for Stormwater Pollutant Loading in the Sinclair- Dyes Inlet Watershed (B2)
Ms.
Jill Brandenberger has a strong background in water quality issues and metals
chemistry. She has lead or participated in programs targeting water quality on
a watershed scale including: Nueces River
basin, Sinclair/Dyes Inlet, and Clallam
County. Ms. Brandenberger evaluated
the degradation of reservoir water quality as a function of temporal and
event-driven cycling of trace metals. Current project and program management
experience includes development of TMDLs, historical reconstruction of
contaminant loading, and chemical evaluation of dredged material.
Sara J. Breslow
University of Washington
Environmental
Anthropology
Mount
Vernon WA
sarajo@u.washington.edu
Science-Based Salmon
Habitat Restoration and Social Conflict in the Pacific Northwest: a Case Study
of the Skagit Valley (P6)
Sara
Breslow is currently a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Anthropology
program at the University of Washington. She holds a bachelors degree in Biology from Swarthmore
College. She welcomes ideas for how to be both an
academic and an artist.
Ginny Broadhurst
Marine Program Coordinator
Northwest
Straits Commission
10441
Bayview Edison Rd.
Mount
Vernon, WA
98273
broadhurst@nwstraits.org
Tel: 360-428-1064
Fax: 360-428-1491
URL: www.nwstraits.org
Creosote removal in the
Northwest Straits: an important piece of nearshore marine habitat restoration
(A7)
Improving existing
marine protected areas in Puget Sound (D10)
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 7
Marine Resources Committees and the Commission.
Ginny received a B.S. from University
of New Hampshire and an M.M.A. from
University of Washington.
Ginny spent 12 years at the Puget Sound Action Team working on wetland
protection, land use issues and marine protected area policies prior to coming
to the Commission in 2003. She is
co-chair of the Marine Protected Area Science Work Group.
Nicholas A. Brown
Summer Research Assistant
The SeaDoc Society
UC Davis Wildlife Health Center – Orcas Island Office
1016 Deer Harbor Road
Eastsound, Washington 98245
Tel: (360) 376-3910
Fax: (360) 376-3909
URL: www.seadocsociety.org
Species of Concern
within the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Marine Ecosystem: changes from 2002 to
2004 (C7)
Nicholas
Brown a student summer research assistant with the SeaDoc Society, a marine
ecosystem health program of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center. He recently completed his AA degree at Skagit
Valley College
and plans to matriculate at Western Washington
University. He enjoys SCUBA diving and sea kayaking.
Ian D. Bruce
Tseycum First Nation
Sidney B.C.
brucei@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Tseycum First Nation
and the Restoration of the Patricia Bay Watershed (F8)
Ian
Douglas Bruce is a Registered Professional Biologist with 25 years experience
working with First Nations and community groups on fisheries, salmon
enhancement and habitat projects. Ian recently completed a Diploma in
‘Restoration of Natural Systems’ from the University
of Victoria. Ian works part-time
for Tseycum First Nation and is Executive Director of Peninsula Streams
Society, and umbrella organization supporting seven stream- and three marine
conservation/restoration groups on the Saanich
Peninsula.
Julia Brydon
Research Assistant
Inst.
for Resources, Environment and Sustain.
University
of British Columbia
487-2206
East Mall
University
of British Columbia
Vancouver
B.C.
jbrydon@interchange.ubc.ca
Tel: (604) 822-9245
Fax: (604) 822-9250
Trace Metal Retention
in Urban Stormwater Ponds in the Lower Fraser Valley, B.C. (B2)
The
research Julia Brydon is presenting is from her M.Sc. thesis in Resource
Management and Environmental Studies, which she completed at the University
of British Columbia in the fall of
2004. Her research interests include the
effects of urbanization on water quality and the effectiveness of BMPs and low
impact design on mitigating some of these impacts. She is currently working as a research
assistant at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at
UBC.
Dan Buffett
Ducks Unlimited
Surrey
B.C.
d_buffett@ducks.ca
Spatial and temporal
use of estuary and upland habitats by wintering waterfowl on the Fraser River
delta and north Puget Sound. (A6)
Waterfowl distribution
at multiple scales in the Georgia Basin Puget Sound. (A6)
A partnership approach
to Spartina removal in the Fraser River Delta (C9)
Dan
Buffett is the senior biologist for the BC Coastal Office of Ducks Unlimited
Canada and is part of a multi-agency team that plans and implements securement
and restoration of estuaries along the BC Coast. He is currently completing a
masters degree in Resource and Environment Management at Simon
Fraser University.
Eric R. Buhle
University of Washington
Biology
Seattle, WA
buhle@u.washington.edu
Impacts of invasive
drills on Olympia oysters in Puget Sound: patterns and mechanisms (C9)
Born
and raised in Massachusetts, Eric
Buhle is a naturalized Northwesterner. He received a B.A. in Biology from Reed
College and worked on the science
of salmon recovery at NOAA’s Northwest
Fisheries Science
Center before entering the Ph.D.
program at the University of Washington.
His dissertation research focuses on using ecological theory to understand the
impacts of introduced species in Pacific Northwest
estuaries.
Douglas Bulthuis
Estuarine Scientist
Padilla
Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve
Washington
Department of Ecology
10441
Bay View-Edison Road
Mount
Vernon, WA
98273-9668
bulthuis@padillabay.gov
Tel: 360-428-1089
Fax: 360-428-1491
Nutrients in an
Eelgrass Dominated Bay: Seasonal and
Diurnal Fluctuations in Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen and Phosphorus (B10)
Douglas
Bulthuis is the Research Coordinator at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve near Mount Vernon, Washington. He received a B.A. from Calvin
College in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, an M.Sc. from
Michigan State
University in Lansing,
Michigan, and a Ph.D. from LaTrobe
University in Melbourne,
Brenda Burd
President, Ecostat Research Ltd
Research
Associate, University of British
Columbia
1040
Clayton Rd. N. Saanich, BC,
burdb@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Tel: 250-363-6345
Fax: 250-655-1669
Ecological
significance of sediment biotic and geochemical effects related to the Iona
WWTP outfall discharge to the Strait of Georgia off Sturgeon Bank (B2)
The
work of Dr. Brenda Burd includes; 1) development of sampling designs for
aquatic habitats and analysis of benthic community response and recovery
patterns as they relate to the environment. Numerous projects cover temperate
and tropical marine habitats from 1980 to present, including untouched areas as
well those exposed to discharges by metal mines, pulp mills, fish farms,
sewage, stormwater, industrial and ocean dumping; 2) development of sampling
and analytical protocols and theory for benthic research and monitoring
programs, such as Environment Canada's Environmental Effects Monitoring program
(EEM) for Pulp and Paper and metal mines.
Joan
Cabreza
EPA
Region 10
1200
Sixth Ave
Seattle, WA
cabreza.joan@epa.gov
Invasion Pathway
Analysis and Genetic Screening Tool Development (C9)
Environmental
Scientist for EPA Region 10 (covering WA, OR, ID, AK) since 1985. She is
currently the EPA Region 10 Invasive Species Coordinator and co-chair of the, Washington State ANS Committee. She is also responsible for WA Wetland
Mitigation Banking. Previous experience includes work in environmental
consulting, academia, and state agencies, as well as 16 years teaching and
entomological and fisheries research in
John Cambalik
Local Liaison—Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties
Puget
Sound Action Team
PO
Box 40900
Olympia, WA 98504-0900
Tel: 360-582-9132
Fax: 360-582-9132
jcambalik@psat.wa.gov
Educating Shoreline
Landowners: Examples from King, Whatcom, Kitsap, Jefferson, Mason and Pierce
Counties: A Perspective on Approaches and Effectiveness in eliciting
on-the-ground change. (F9)
John
holds a B.S. in Fisheries Biology from the State University of New York, Syracuse
and an M.S. in Marine Science from North Carolina
State University.
John Calambokidis
Cascadia Research
Olympia, WA
calambokidis@cascadiaresearch.org
Gray whales in Puget
Sound and surrounding waters: not just migrants (A2)
Harbor seals as
indicators of trends in contaminants in Puget Sound: comparison of results from
two sites (D8)
John
Calambokidis is a Research Biologist and one of the founders of Cascadia
Research, a non-profit research organization formed in 1979. He has authored
two books on marine mammals as well as more than 50 reports and publications on
the biology and human impacts on this diverse group. He has conducted studies
on a variety of marine mammals in the North Pacific and has conducted long-term
research on blue, humpback, and gray whales.
Clive Callaway
The Living by Water Project
Salmon
Arm B.C.
clivec@jetstream.net
Shoreline Stewardship
Support for Local Government (C3)
Clive
Callaway, M.E. Des. is a co-founder of The Living by Water Project
(www.livingbywater.ca). He is co-author of On the Living Edge — Your Handbook
for Waterfront Living and has been involved with the Living by Water Project
for over seven years. Clive has assisted local government and has given many
workshops and presentations across
Maria Calvi
Duke University
- Durham NC
Nicholas
School of the Environment &
Earth Science
Seattle, WA
maria.calvi@duke.edu
A framework for conservation
and restoration management of nearshore ecosystems in Puget Sound (F6)
In
December 2004, Maria Calvi graduated from the Nicholas
School of the Environment and Earth
Sciences at Duke University
as a Master of Environmental Management with a focus on landscape and
geospatial analysis and public participation in conservation. While a student,
she interned with The Nature Conservancy of Washington, People for Puget
Sound, Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, and
Cascade Land Conservancy on projects ranging from ecological assessments to
public outreach.
Elisa Campbell
Sustainable Communities Program
Vancouver
BC
Case by case - the
design and implementation of sustainable communities (B8)
Elisa
Campbell has a background in green buildings, infrastructure, and the
communities that knit them together, and has focused on enhancing the
performance of our urban environments at the building and community scales.
Elisa was appointed Director of the Sustainable Communities Program at UBC in
early 2003. This new program is focused on being a leader in applying
sustainability concepts to real-world situations, drawing on sustainability
research from UBC, and working towards implementation.
Glenn A. Cannon
University of Washington
School
of Oceanography
Seattle, WA
cannon@ocean.washington.edu
Circulation
Characteristics of Puget Sound Related to Understanding Hood Canal (D5)
Glenn
Cannon is an Affiliate Professor of Oceanography at University
of Washington. He is retired from
NOAA where he made numerous studies of Puget Sound
circulation. He recently worked with Evans-Hamilton Inc. to help King
County determine a good outfall
location in Puget Sound for a new sewer treatment plant
Tom Carlson
University of Washington
GIS
Program - Urban Studies
Tacoma WA
carlsont@u.washington.edu
Landscape Fragmentation
and Urban Sprawl in Pierce County, WA (B7)
Tom
is a Biogeographer with an interest in using Geographic Information
Technologies: GIS, remote sensing, and GPS to model landscape change at
multiple scales. Specific research interests include using GIS and remote
sensing for change detection in Puget Sound salt marshes
and surrounding lowlands, landscape change in tropical ecosystems, and modeling
urban space. He teaches Geography and GIS and serves as the GIS Coordinator at
the University of Washington,
Tacoma campus.
Todd A. Carnahan
Habitat Acquisition Trust
Victoria
B.C.
todd@hat.bc.ca
Mill Hill Landowner
Outreach Stewardship Project (P6)
Todd
joined HAT in 2004 to deliver our Good Neighbours landowner contact
projects. Now our Stewardship
Cordinator, Todd also manages the Matson Lands, our last remaining Garry Oak
meadow (Quercus garryana) in Victoria
Harbour. Formerly an ecological
planner with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Todd has assisted community
stewardship and restoration projects in Southern Ontario
and Greater Victoria, British Columbia.
José Carrasquero
Herrera Environmental Consultants
2200
Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100
Seattle, WA 98121
jcarrasquero@herrerainc.com
Tel: 206-441-9080
Fax: 206-441-9108
URL: http://www.herrerainc.com/
Bulkheading
in Thurston County: Impacts on Forage Fish Spawning Habitat (A7)
José
Carrasquero is Fisheries Director at Herrera Environmental Consultants. He has graduate degrees in both fisheries and
marine biology and 16 years of professional experience in the study of
shore-drift direction and longshore sediment transport, beach sediment and
profile characterization, benthic ecology, salmon biology and estuarine habitat
requirements, food web dynamics, and ecology of estuarine systems. Mr. Carrasquero has participated in salt
marsh restoration feasibility studies including the physical and biological
evaluation and selection of reference marshes in Puget Sound. He has also participated in the design of
estuarine fish passage structures associated with roads adjacent to salt
marshes. In addition, Mr. Carrasquero
has conducted intertidal and estuarine habitat assessments and biological
assessments in Puget Sound, including eelgrass and kelp
bed studies.
Lilly S. Cesh
Simon Fraser
University
Biological
Sciences
Port
Moody B.C.
lscesh@sfu.ca
Effect
of PCBs and PBDEs on thyroid and vitamin A levels in bald eagles (B6)
Effect
of plasma lipid content on interpreting chlorinated hydrocarbon concentration
in bald eagles (P2)
I
am a student at Simon Fraser
University working towards my
masters in environmental toxicology.
Corrina
Chase
Master's Candidate
School
of Marine Affairs
University
of Washington
4514
Thackeray Pl. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
corrina@alum.mit.edu
Tel: (206)634-4243
Marine Protected Area
Networks and Rockfish in the Salish Sea: Research Directions (D9)
Corrina
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 with a
bachelor’s degree in Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences. After working for the Department of
Environmental Protection as an organic chemistry technician and the Ipswich Watershed Council as a GIS consultant, she enrolled in the University
of Washington’s School
of Marine Affairs where she is now
a master’s candidate.
Sangho Choi
The University
of Arizona
Soil Water and Environmental Science
Tucson
Arizona
schoi@email.arizona.edu
The
Management of Giant Salvinia by Biological Control On thelower Colorado River
(P2)
Ph.D.
student in soil water and environmental scicence dept. at U of A, since
2001. I’ve been involved in giant
salvinia control project since early 2002.
Dave Christensen
Water Quality Program Manager
Hood
Canal Coordinating Council
211
Taylor Street, Suite 5
Port
Townsend WA 98368
Email: dave.christensen@earthlink.net
Tel: (360) 379-2269
Fax: (360) 379-2269
URL: http://www.wa.gov/hccc
Developing Early
Corrective Actions to Address Hypoxia in Hood Canal (D6)
Dave
Christensen is water quality program manager for the Hood Canal Coordinating
Council. Previously, he held several
positions in his 8 years working for Jefferson
County, including Natural Resources
Division Manager and Environmental Health Director. Dave has a MS in Limnology and Oceanography
from the University of Wisconsin
at Madison, and a BS in Fisheries
from the University of Washington.
Aimee Christy
Senior Biologist
Pacific
Shellfish Institute
509
12th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
aimee@pacshell.org
Tel: 360-754-2741
URL: www.pacshell.org
Literature Review and
Analysis of Coastal Urbanization and Microbial Contamination of Shellfish
Growing Areas (P2)
Detection of the harmful
algal species Pseudo-nitzschia and associated particulate and dissolved domoic
acid with concurrent water column quality and nutrient concentrations obtained
from a moored automated water sampler (P2)
Aimee
Christy has worked as senior biologist for Pacific Shellfish Institute since
2002 on plankton sampling, site monitoring, and data analysis. Aimee has eight
years of experience in water quality analysis, wetland and estuarine studies,
and invertebrate/algae surveys. Her interests include stormwater management and
researching the impacts of land use change on water quality, particularly in
shellfish growing areas. She received a B.S. in Zoology from the University
of Washington and is currently
completing her Masters in Environmental Studies at The Evergreen State College.
Bruce Claiborne
Science Advisor, Divemaster
Bainbridge
High School
Bainbridge
Island, WA 98110
BCLAIBORNE@bainbridge.wednet.edu
Tel: (206) 780-1282
Return of the
Plankton: The Seasons Underwater in Puget Sound
Bruce
Claiborne, science teacher 1970 to present; marine research scientist for
GeoMarine, Inc., Washington State Teaching Certificate (BS WSU, Pullman),
(WSSTC/UW, Seattle)
Tansy Clay
University of Washington
Oceanography
Seattle, WA
tansy@ocean.washington.edu
Effects
of turbulent flow on the movement of larval sand dollars (A8)
I
received a Masters degree from San Francisco
State University
where I studied the effects of thin layers of prey on the vertical distribution
of larval herring. I am presently enrolled in the PhD program in biological
oceanography at the University of Washington.
My current research addresses how the movement of invertebrate larvae is
affected by environmental factors, with particular emphasis on organism-flow
interactions. I am also actively involved in scientific outreach and education.
Carol Cloen
Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic
Resources Program
Olympia, WA
carol.cloen@wadnr.gov
Habitat Based Science
as a Management Tool for Washington's State-owned Aquatic Lands (F10)
Carol
Cloen is the Lead Scientist for Washington DNR’s Aquatic Resources Program’s
Endangered Species Act compliance project. She is a freshwater ecologist, with
research and practical experience in trophic interactions in the Great
Lakes, 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).
Audrey M. Colnar
Western Washington
University
Environmental
Science
Bellingham, WA
colnara@cc.wwu.edu
Regional risk
assessment of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, in Cherry Point, Washington (P2)
I
will have a Master of Science in Environmental Science from Western, Washington University
in December 2004. My main research interests include ecological risk assessment
and the application of risk assessment methodology to the issue of
non-indigenous species.
Colm D. Condon
Simon Fraser
University
Resource
and Environmental Management
B.C.
cdcondon@sfu.ca
A marine food-web
bioaccumulation model for PCBs and PBDEs in the Georgia Basin (P4)
I
have a background in cell biology and am currently completing a master’s in
resource and environmental management (REM) at Simon
Fraser University.
Andrea E. Copping
Associate Director
Washington
Sea Grant Program
University
of Washington
3716
Brooklyn Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105
acopping@u.washington.edu
Tel: 206/685-8209
Fax: 206/685-0380
URL: wsg.washington.edu
British
Columbia/Washington Marine Science Panel: Ten Years Later (C6)
Andrea
Copping is a biological oceanographer who came in from the deep blue sea to
work on coastal and estuarine issues in the Pacific Northwest. Andrea is Associate Director of the, Washington Sea Grant Program, serves on the Northwest Straits Commission, and
long ago chaired the British Columbia/Washington Marine Science Panel. She is
particularly interested in how science is used to manage and protect our marine
resources.
Bruce F. Cousens
Senior Biologist
Georgia Basin
Ecol. Assessment & Restoration Soc.
#133-4176
A Departure Bay Rd
Nanaimo,
BC V9T 4V7
pmartins@island.net
Tel: 250-758-2922
Fax: 250-758-2922
URL: www.georgiabasin.ca
Recovery of the Western
Purple Martin bordering the "Salish Sea" - the Georgia Basin of British Columbia and
Puget Sound, Washington (E9)
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 through a non-profit society. He is a member of the Assoc. of Professional
Biologists of BC and the BC College
of Applied Biology.
Tom Cowan
Director
Northwest
Straits Commission
10441
Bayview Edison Road
Mount
Vernon, WA 98273
cowan@nwstraits.org
Tel: 360-428-1085
Fax: 360-428-1491
URL: www.nwstraits.org
Impacts of Human
Activities: Derelict Fishing Gear in Puget Sound (F2)
Pat Crain
Olympic National Park
600
E. Park Avenue
Port
Angeles, Washington 98362
patrick_crain@nps.gov
Tel: 360.565.3075
Elwha and Glines Canyon
dam removals: nearshore restoration and salmon recovery of the central Strait
of Juan de Fuca (C4)
Pat
Crain has been involved in planning efforts to restore the Elwha
River ecosystem since 1989, when he
joined the staff for the Point No Point Treaty Council and Lower Elwha Klallam
Tribe as a fisheries biologist/fisheries manager. He contributed to the drafting of the Elwha
Report (DOI, 1994), as well as the subsequent Environmental Impact Statements
evaluating options for restoring the Elwha Watershed through dam removal (DOI,
1995 and 1996). Pat holds a MS degree in
Fisheries from the University of Washington.
He is currently employed as a fisheries biologist for Olympic National Park.
Hilary Culverwell
Local Liaison—Skagit, Whatcom and
San Juan counties
Puget
Sound Action Team
PO
Box 4101
Bellingham, WA 98226
hculverwell@psat.wa.gov
Tel: 360-676-2233
Fax: 360-676-2233
Educating Shoreline
Landowners: Examples from King, Whatcom, Kitsap, Jefferson, Mason and Pierce
Counties: A Perspective on Approaches and Effectiveness in eliciting
on-the-ground change. (F9)
Hilary
earned her B.A. in Political Science from Occidental
College, and a Master of Public
Affairs (M.P.A.) and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana
University.
Patrick F. Cummins
Institute of Ocean
Sciences
Sidney
B.C.
cumminsp@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Co-variability of the
Strait of Georgia and the northeast Pacific Ocean on climatic time scales
(E2)
Patrick
Cummins completed his PhD. from the University
of British Columbia in 1989, under
the supervision of Professor Lawrence Mysak. He has been working as a research
scientist at the Institute of Ocean
Sciences since the early 1990s. Dr. Cummins’ work
includes studies of the northeast Pacific ocean and the
coastal waters of British Columbia.
Kathryn Cunningham
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
kathryn2@u.washington.edu
Genetic Stock Structure
of Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus) (P1)
Kathryn
Cunningham is a graduate student in the Marine Molecular Biotechnology Lab in
the School of Aquatic
and Fishery Sciences at the University
of Washington, working with Lorenz
Hauser. Her primary research interests relate to population genetics and conservation.
Currently she is working on genetic stock structure in Pacific cod. Kathryn
recieved a B.A. in Biology from Occidental
College in 1999.
Neil Dangerfield
Fisheries and Oceans
Marine
Environmental Quality
Sidney
B.C.
dangerfieldn@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
The pollution shadow:
characterizing “local” and “global” air pollution in the Strait of Georgia
(P4)
Neil
Dangerfield is a Research Technician with the Canadian Department of Fisheries
and Oceans. He works on a variety of laboratory- and field- based projects to
examine the source, transport and fate of environmental contaminants in Pacific
coastal waters and in marine mammal food chains. He obtained his BSc in
Chemistry from the University of Victoria.
Kate Davies
Core Faculty, Environment & Community
Center
for Creative Change
Antioch
University Seattle
2326
Sixth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
kdavies@antiochsea.edu
Tel: 206 268 4811
Fax: 206 441 3307
Environmental Public
Health in Washington State: How Complete are the Data? (A9)
Kate
Davies has a doctorate in biochemistry and an MA in Human and Organizational
Transformation. She is currently Core Faculty in Environment & Community at
Antioch University Seattle. In 2004, she was a member of the WA Department of
Ecology's Rule-Making Committee on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins and in
November she received the Rotary Club of Seattle’s Award for ‘Service Above
Self’. In the 1980s, she was Manager of Toronto's Environmental Protection
Office and Canadian Chair of the International Joint Commission's Health
Committee. In the 1990s, she was Principal of Ecosystems Consulting, a
successful environmental health policy Company.
Jay W. Davis
Environmental
Contaminants
Lacey, WA
jay_davis@fws.gov
Neurobehavioral
Effects of the Carbamate Insecticide, Carbaryl, on Salmonids (A10)
Jay
Davis has an undergraduate degree in marine biology and graduated from Texas
A&M University
with an MS in environmental toxicology. After managing an aquatic toxicology
laboratory for 3+ years he was dragged off to the Peace Corps by his wife and
served in
Tim Determan
Coordinator, Puget Sound Ambient
Monitoring Program
Food
Safety and Shellfish Programs
Washington
State Department of Health
P.O.
Box 47824
Olympia, WA 98504-7824
tim.determan@doh.wa.gov
Tel: (360) 236-3311
Fax: (360) 236-3357
Evaluating Status and
Trends in Fecal Pollution in Puget Sound through 2004 (P2)
Spatial and Temporal
Patterns of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Puget Sound (P3)
Tim
Determan holds a BS in biological oceanography from the University
of Washington and did graduate work
at the University of Guam. His professional interests have centered on Water quality monitoring and associated focused studies, especially related to
non-point pollution. He has been a
technical advisor to local and state agencies regarding the affect of pollution
on shellfish resources. He now assesses
status and trends in biotoxins and fecal pollution for the Puget Sound Ambient
Monitoring Program (PSAMP) at the Washington State Department of Health.
Megan N. Dethier
University of Washington
Friday
Harbor Labs and Dept. of Biology
Friday
Harbor WA
mdethier@u.washington.edu
Linking nearshore
processes with intertidal diversity in Puget Sound (F9)
I
did my undergraduate work at Carleton
College in Minnesota,
despite the apparent lack of ocean there, then PhD work at the University
of Washington, near a real ocean.
My current research efforts include: 1) Investigating the linkage between
physical features of shoreline habitats and their biota; 2) studying the
plant/herbivore ecology and ecophysiology of intertidal seaweeds; and 3)
investigating interactions between native salt marsh communities and an
invasive cordgrass in Puget Sound.
Bronwyn Dexter
Habitat Restoration Program Assistant
People For Puget Sound
911
Western Ave. Suite 580
Seattle, WA 98104
bdexter@pugetsound.org
Tel: (206) 382-7007
Fax: (206) 382-7006
URL: www.pugetsound.org
Sound Stewards: The Art
of Nurturing Our Super-Volunteers (E8)
Bronwyn
Dexter, Habitat Restoration Program Assistant, began working with People For
Puget Sound as an intern in November 2003. She helps coordinate the habitat
restoration activities and the Sound Stewardship program in the Central and
South Sound regions. A Seattle
native and long-time outdoor fanatic, she holds a BA in Ecological Studies from
Seattle University.
Jeff Dillon
Fisheries
biologist
Attn: CE-EN-PL-ER
PO
Box 3755
Seattle, WA 98124-2255
jeffrey.f.dillon@usace.army.mil
Tel: (206) 764-6174
Fax: (206) 764-6676
Seahurst Park: Restoring
Nearshore Habitat and Reconnecting Natural Sediment Supply Processes (F7)
Jeff
Dillon is a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Jeff has worked
for the Corps' Seattle District for over 11 years where he has served as lead
coordinator for a variety of federal projects in Washington,
Idaho and Montana. Jeff has experience planning, designing and
permitting restoration projects in both freshwater and marine environments.
Jeff is currently involved in the Corps' Puget Sound Nearshore Restoration
Project and other large planning studies in Western Washington.
Paul A. Dinnel
Western Washington
University
Shannon
Point Marine Center
Anacortes, WA
padinnel@aol.com
Olympia Oyster
Restoration in Fidalgo Bay, Washington (P3)
Paul
Dinnel received his BA and MA in Biology from Humboldt
State University,
Northern California and his PhD from UW, where he worked
as a Research Scientist for 18 years. Paul has over 25 years experience in the Puget
Sound region as a marine toxicologist and ecologist and is now a
Marine Scientist with WWU. Paul is a volunteer with the Padilla Bay Foundation,
Skagit County Marine Resources Committee and past chair of the Northwest
Straits Commission.
Jamie Donatuto
Environmental Specialist
Swinomish
Indian Tribal Community
Office
of Planning and Community Development
PO
Box 817
La
Conner, WA 98257
jdonatuto@swinomish.nsn.us
Tel: (360) 466-1532
Fax: (360) 466-1615
Rounding the Home
Stretch: Learning Experiences from the Bioaccumulative Toxics in Native
American Shellfish Project (D1)
Jamie
Donatuto is an Environmental Specialist for the Swinomish Indian Tribal
Community, located in La Conner, Washington.
She has worked for the Tribe since June 2000 doing project design and
implementation in the Water Resources Program.
She is the Project Manager of the Bioaccumulative Toxics in Native
American Shellfish project. In addition,
Ms. Donatuto is a PhD student in the Resource Management and Environmental
Studies Program at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver,
BC.
Her research concentration focuses on creating a comprehensive risk
assessment for the Swinomish Tribe.
Cinde Donoghue
WA Dept of Ecology
SEA
Program
Olympia, WA
cdon461@ecy.wa.gov
A Puget Sound Coastal
Landform Classification GIS database (D4)
Over
15 years of experience with international, federal, state local agencies
working on issues regarding landuse, dredging and disposal impacts to marine
shoreline ecology. Currently coastal ecosystems scientist with WA Dept of
Ecology Research focus on landuse, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences; Coastal
Processes, University of Virginia Masters in Urban and Environmenal Planning,
University of Virginia Masters in Environmenal Sciences; University of Virgina.
Paul R. Dorn
Suquamish Tribe
Fisheries
Department
Suquamish, WA
pdorn@suquamish.nsn.us
Integration
of Joint City of Bainbridge Island/Suquamish Tribal Beach Seining Results into
Shoreline Management and Salmon Recovery Efforts in Kitsap County, Washington
(B9)
Paul
Dorn has a BS in Fisheries Biology from the University
of Washington and has worked for
the past 29 years as a tribal biologist for the Suquamish Tribe working on
salmon recovery.
James D. Dougherty
Gray & Osborne Consulting Engineers
Stormwater
Seattle, WA
jdougherty@g-o.com
North Bay Case Inlet Water Reuse Facility (F2)
Jim
Dougherty holds a B.S. Degree in Environmental Studies with a concentration in
Marine Resources from Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western, Washington University.
He is currently responsible for environmental permitting for water, wastewater
and infrastructure projects throughout Washington.
Prior to joining Gray & Osborne, Inc., Mr. Dougherty worked as a Hazard
Mitigation Specialist for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and as a
fisheries biologist and environmental specialist for consulting firms in Washington
and California.
Pete Dowty
Washington Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic Resources Division
Olympia, WA
peter.dowty@wadnr.gov
Ability to Predict
Zostera marina Cover Based on Geomorphic and Hydrologic Variables in Puget Sound, Washington (P4)
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.
Jeffrey J. Duda
US Geological Survey
Western Fisheries Research Center
Seattle, WA
jeff_duda@usgs.gov
Pre-dam
removal monitoring in the Elwha River Basin: establishing baseline levels of
stable isotopes in fish and benthic communities (A1)
Investigations
of the ecological, fluvial, and nearshore impacts of the Elwha River dam
removal (P4)
Jeffrey
Duda is a research ecologist with the US Geological Survey, Western
Fisheries Research
Center in Seattle,WA.
Cynthia Durance
Principal, Precision Identification
3622
West 3rd Avenue
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6R 1L9
precid@shaw.ca
Tel: 604 734-5048
URL: www.shim.bc.ca/atlases/atlas.html
Restoring Marine
Habitats and Mending Social Communities (F10)
Cynthia
Durance has studied eelgrass ecology & restoration in British
Columbia for 25 years. She has worked for SeaChange
Marine Conservation Society for seven years as a scientific advisor. Since that
time she has developed manuals and interactive web mapping for stewardship
groups. She has taught eelgrass ecology and trained over 20 community groups in
BC to map and monitor eelgrass. The next
step is teaching them to restore eelgrass habitat.
Margaret E. Dutch
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental
Assessment Program
Olympia, WA
mdut461@ecy.wa.gov
Relationships between
benthic infaunal community structure and dissolved oxygen levels in bottom Waters of Hood Canal (D5)
Concentrations of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE) in Hood Canal (P2)
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 Ambient 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.
Ann Eissinger
Nahkeeta Northwest Wildlife Services
Bow, WA
nahkeeta@fidalgo.net
Effective
Volunteer-Based monitoring for European Green Crab in Puget Sound. (C5)
Movement and Spatial
Requirements of Great Blue Heron Colonies Over Time (E9)
Great Blue Herons of
the Salish Sea: Status and Conservation. (P1)
Professional
Wildlife Biologist Ann Eissinger owns Nahkeeta Northwest Wildlife Services in
Bow, Washington. Over twenty years, Ann has worked as researcher, consultant,
educator and conservationist, facilitating key habitat protection for great
blue heron, marbled murrelet and Vaux’s swift. She is currently researching
great blue heron habitat relationships and populations throughout the Salish
Sea. Ms Eissinger is also
Coordinator for the European Green Crab Monitoring Program and Director of the
Wildlife Conservation Trust’s, Chuckanut Biodiversity Project.
William H. Eldridge
University of Washington
School
of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Seattle, WA
whe@u.washington.edu
Decadal changes in
genetic diversity of Puget Sound coho salmon (C2)
Received
a MS from the University of Minnesota
in 2000, then worked at the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission in Olympia,Washington on hatchery reform for three
years. Currently a PhD student at the University
of Washington.
Joel Elliott
Associate Professor
Department
of Biology
University
of Puget Sound
1500
N. Warner
Tacoma,, WA 98416
jkelliott@ups.edu
Tel:
(253) 879-8593
Factors influencing the
distribution and abundance of Zostera marina in Commencement Bay, WA (P2)
Will the introduced
mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis outcompete the native mussel M. trossulus in
Puget Sound? A study of relative frequencies, growth and survival among
different habitats (P2)
Joel
K. Elliott is an Associate Professor in the Biology department at the University
of Puget Sound. His research interests include studies of
local environmental issues in Puget Sound. One of the
projects he is involved in is the effects of the introduced mussel Mytilus
galloprovincialis on local marine communities.
He is also using underwater videography, GPS and GIS technologies to
study subtidal habitats. Current studies
are on the distribution and abundance of eelgrass beds and the bacterium
Beggiatoa in Commencement Bay.
John Elliott
Environment Canada
Canadian
Wildlife Service
RR#1 Delta B.C. Canada
john.elliott@ec.gc.ca
Poisoning of birds of
prey by anticholinesterase insecticides in agricultural areas of southwestern
British Columbia (A9)
An Assessment of
Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Effects on Development of Wild Mink (Mustela vison)
from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada (A10)
Trends in
polybrominated diphenyl ethers iin eggs of aquatic and marine birds from
British Columbia, Canada, 1979-2002 (P2)
John
Elliott is a Research Scientist at the Canadian Wildlife Service, Pacific and
Yukon Region of Environment Canada where he has worked for 15 years. He has a PhD from the University
of British Columbia, and BSc
and MSc from Ottawa
universities, where he worked for CWS for 8 years. As an ecotoxicologist, he has focused on
persistent contaminant effects on populations of top predators, such as bald
eagles, ospreys, and seabirds.
Robert J. Elner
Canadian Wildlife Service
Biology
B.C.
Canada
bob.elner@ec.gc.ca
Shorebird feeding
ecology: implications for conservation and management (E9)
Robert
Elner is Head of the Migratory Birds Conservation Section with Environment
Canada’s Canadian Wildlife Service at the Pacific Wildlife Research Centre in
Delta, British Columbia. He was a Research Scientist with Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, working with marine invertebrates on both the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts for over 10 years. In 1991, he switched fields to migratory
bird conservation because he believed that avian systems were scientifically
more tractable. His soon learned his mistake but has continued researching the
feeding ecology, functional morphology and natural diet of calidrid sandpipers.
Dr. Elner is an Adjunct Professor at Simon
Fraser University
and serves on committees of graduate students affiliated with the Centre for
Wildlife Ecology, Simon Fraser
University, and Centre for
Conservation Biology, University of British
Columbia.
Gerald M. Erickson
Marine Scientist
Polaris
Applied Sciences, Inc.
12525
131st Court N.E.
Kirkland,Washington 98034-7713
jerickson@polarisappliedsciences.com
Tel: (425) 823-4841
Fax: (425) 823-3805
URL: www.polarisappliedsciences.com
Port of Seattle Pier
64/65 Thin-Layer Sediment Cap Monitoring Results 1994-2004 (D2)
Port of Seattle Pier
64/65 Thin-Layer Sediment Cap and Bell Harbor Marina Projects Habitat
Mitigation Monitoring Results 1996-2002 (F1)
Jerry
Erickson is a marine scientist with Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. in Kirkland,Washington.
He has a BS in both zoology and botany from the University
of Washington, and in 1988 obtained
a MS in fisheries biology, also from the University
of Washington. He has 24 years of experience in marine science
and ecology, including the biology of marine invertebrates, juvenile salmonids,
finfish, macroalgae and shellfish in the Pacific Northwest
and other regions of North America. He also has expertise on habitat mitigation,
sediment chemistry, and the effects of contaminants and oil spills on marine
organisms and habitats.
Keith Erickson
Galiano Conservancy Association
Galiano
Island B.C. Canada
galiano_conservancy@gulfislands.com
Galiano Up-Close, What
Do You Value? (C3)
Keith
has worked for the Galiano Conservancy Association for seven years where he has
completed projects focused on mapping, planning, monitoring, restoration and
education. Keith has a B.Sc. in Natural Resource Conservation from the University
of British Columbia. He serves as a
volunteer director of the Galiano Island Forest Association where he pursues
local forest sustainability, and is a member of the Galiano Island Advisory
Planning Commission where he contributes to local government decision making.
Britta L. Eschete
People For Puget Sound
Communication,
Education and Outreach Team
Mount
Vernon WA
beschete@pugetsound.org
Swinomish Earth
Enhancement Celebrations 2003-2005: The Planning Process (D3)
Swinomish Earath Day
Enhancement Celebrations Incorporating culture, communities and service
projects (P6)
Britta
Eschete is one of the co-organizers of the Swinomish Earth Enhancement
Celebrations. She serves as the North Sound Outreach and Involvement
Coordinator at People For Puget Sound, where she has worked for the past five
years. Prior to this, she participated in the Americorps program for two years
and is a graduate of Western Washington
University in Anthropology/Biology.
A native to Washington State, she resides in Mt Vernon, WA with her nine-year
old daughter, Noelle, and enjoys travel/staying in hostels, swimming, and
cooking.
Nathan R. Evans
Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory
Coastal
Assessment and Restoration Group
Sequim, WA
nathan.evans@pnl.gov
Use of Remotely Sensed
Data to Characterize Upwelling Conditions on the Washington Coast in Relation
to Harmful Algal Blooms (P4)
Mr.
Nathan Evans specializes in applying technology to marine systems, emphasizing
GIS and remote sensing tools. He has been involved with the ORHAB project for
several years, using satellite imagery to identify ocean features that may be
associated with Washington Coast
red tides. Other research includes developing a nearshore assessment strategy
for shoreline management using GIS, which focused on integrating numerous
datasets into a single system for prioritizing management actions and
identifying restoration opportunities.
Joseph R. Evenson
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
PSAMP
Olympia, WA
evensjre@dfw.wa.gov
Distribution and
Characteristics of Nocturnal Resting Areas of Surf Scoter (Melanitta
perspicillata), White-Winged Scoter (M. fusca), and other Seabird Species in
Puget Sound (A5)
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 1989. 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.
Duane C. Fagergren
Special Projects Director
Puget
Sound Action Team
PO
Box 40900
Olympia, WA 98504-0900
dfagergren@psat.wa.gov
Tel: 360-725-5438
Fax: 360-725-5456
URL: www.psat.wa.gov
Northern Anchovy—The
Other Forage Fish (P1)
Duane
is Special Projects Director for the Puget Sound Action Team, currently working
on Hood Canal’s
low dissolved oxygen problem, serving as a member of the Northwest Straits
Commission, and chairing the management committee of the Puget Sound Ambient
Monitoring Program. Duane is a lifetime resident of south Puget
Sound and has been involved in the shellfish industry all his
life.
Erin A. Falcone
Research Assistant
Cascadia
Research Collective
218
½ W. Fourth Ave.
Olympia,, WA 98501
amazonafaun@aol.com
Tel: 360-943-7325
Fax: 360-943-7026
URL: www.cascadiaresearch.org
Humpback whales in the
Puget Sound/Georgia Strait Region (A2)
Erin
Falcone has studied the social behavior and population dynamics of humpback
whales in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico
since 1995. She received a B.S. in
Zoology from Humboldt State
University in Arcata,
CA in 1999.
She began working for Cascadia in July 2003 and deals primarily with
humpback whale photo-identification.
Nissa C. Ferm
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
Seattle, WA
nissacf@u.washington.edu
Composition of
Zooplankton in Ballast Water of Ships Entering Puget Sound
(C5)
Received
a BS in Marine Biology and Limnology from San
Francisco State University
in 2000. Worked at the Romberg Tiburon
Center for Enviornmental Studies in
Tiburon, California
for a year focusing on growth rate studies and taxonomy of copepods in the San
Francisco estuary. Has been a research scientist at
the University of Washington
for the past three years working on zooplankton taxonomy and ballast water
issues.
David P. Finlayson
University of Washington
School
of Oceanography
Seattle, WA
dfinlays@u.washington.edu
The impact of climate
variability on the beaches of Puget Sound (F4)
David
Finlayson is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School
of Oceanography, University
of Washington. David is studying
the coastal geomorphology of Puget Sound over a range of
spatial scales from detailed profiles on Camano
Island to Sound-wide inventories of
bathymetric lidar. Current work is attempting to characterizes the morphology
of beaches throughout the Sound and the natural wave and tidal forces that
shape them.
David L. Fluharty
University of Washington
School
of Marine Affairs
Seattle, WA
fluharty@u.washington.edu
Getting Started on
Integrated Assessment for the Puget Sound Ecosystem (D7)
Jeff A. Fowler
Associate Civil Engineer
City
of Seattle
707
S. Plummer St.
Seattle, WA 98134
jeff.fowler@seattle.gov
Tel: 206-233-2540
Fax: 206-386-1168
Infiltration through
Natural Drainage Systems in Seattle, Washington (B8)
Jeff
Fowler graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Washington
State University
in 1998 and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in
geotechnical engineering, from the University
of Washington in 2000. Jeff is a
geotechnical engineer with the Seattle Public Utilites Materials Laboratory. He
has worked on the natural drainage systems throughout the City since their
inception. These projects include S.E.A. Streets, Broadview Greengrid, soon to
be constructed Pinehurst Greengrid and the upcoming Venema Greengrid.
Bill Fox
Cosmopolitan Engineering Group
Tacoma, WA
bfox@cosmogrp.com
Balancing Wastewater
Disposal and Shellfish Protection at the Very End of Puget Sound
(B1)
Bill
Fox is Vice President of Cosmopolitan Engineering, with 23 years of experience
in modeling, permitting, inspecting and designing wastewater outfalls. He has
conducted mixing zone studies for 41 of the 59 municipal WWTP discharges to Puget
Sound. He has assisted communities in balancing wastewater
disposal needs with often-competing shellfish protection criteria. He has used
fluorescent tracers to evaluate the fate and transport of effluents and in the
development of TMDL models for Puget Sound.
James H. Franks
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
jamesf@u.washington.edu
Sharks in the Salish
Sea: Broad- and fine-scale phlylogeography of the spiny dogfish (Squalus
acanthias) (C2)
James
Franks earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology at the University
of Hawaii, Manoa, in 2002, followed
by a year of post-baccalaureate research on shark sensory biology and
predator-prey interactions at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. James is
currently pursuing his Master’s degree with Dr. Lorenz Hauser in the Marine
Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory at the University
of Washington.
Ian Fraser
Marine Resources Consultants
Port
Townsend WA
jnorris@olympus.net
Hydroacoustic and
Underwater Videographic Survey of San Juan County Eelgrass Resources
(P1)
Ian
Fraser holds a BS degree in mathematics from Haverford
College. He has been a research
technician at Marine Resources Consultants in Port Townsend, WA since 2001. His
current research focuses on underwater videographic methods for monitoring
nearshore marine habitats.
Ross E. Freeman
American Rivers,
NW Office
Seattle, WA
rfreeman@AmericanRivers.org
Using 3D visualization
to portray Elwha River dam-removal (F7)
Ross
Freeman joined the NW office of American Rivers as staff scientist/policy
advocate after receiving his M.S. in Conservation Biology from Univ.
Wisconsin-Madison. He works on dam removal and salmon recovery, Clean Water Act
policy, instream flow issues, county land use management, and in-house GIS
projects. His prior employment includes positions as environmental science
educator, Nat’l Park Service backcountry ranger, rafting program manager, and
environmental journalist.
Kurt Fresh
NOAA Fisheries, NWFSC
2725
Montlake Blvd E.
Seattle,
98112
Kurt.Fresh@noaa.gov
Tel: 206-860-6793
Elwha and Glines Canyon
dam removals: nearshore restoration and salmon recovery of the central Strait
of Juan de Fuca (C4)
Kurt
L. Fresh works as a Fisheries Research Biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle,Washington. Most of Kurts career has focused on studying the life history and
ecology of juvenile salmon in Washington
in riverine, lake, and estuarine habitats. He is currently working on developing protection and
restoration strategies for estuarine
habitats to support recovery of salmon populations. Kurt received a Masters of Science from the University
of Washington.
Elizabeth Freyman
Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection
Environmental
Protection Program
Surrey
B.C. Canada
liz.freyman@gems1.gov.bc.ca
Measuring and Assessing
Environmental Quality in the Lower Mainland Region of British Columbia
(P4)
The
Environmental Quality Section within the Environmental Protection Division is
responsible for groundwater, surface water and air quality. Staff roles include
setting stadards, monitoring, reporting and communicating on environmental
quality as well as working in partnership with municipalities, regional
districts, federal agencies and local stewardship groups. In addition,
Environmental Quality staff guide and direct efforts to reduce waste discharges
that threaten environmental quality and assist with determining compliance with
Provincial regulations.
Anthony Gabriel
Central Washington
University
Department
of Geography and Land Studies
Ellensburg, WA
GabrielA@cwu.EDU
An interactive Decision
Support System for marine shoreline characterization (F9)
Anthony
Gabriel is a faculty member of Central Washington University Dept of Geography
and Land Studies and is Co-Director, Resource Management Graduate Program. He
has had over 10 years of teaching experience at programs in Wisconsin,Washington and Canada
. His research focuses on studies of the relationships between biophysical
processes and socio-economic systems. He is continuing to develop, and test
techniques that apply results of biophysical studies to wetland, shoreline, and Watershed management.
Howard E. Garrett
Orca Network
, WA
howard@orcanetwork.org
Do Orcas Use Symbols?
(A2)
Howard
began working with the Center for Whale Research in 1980, as field researcher
and as editor of Cetus, the journal of the Whale
Museum. In 1985 Garrett wrote New
England Whales, describing the whales and dolphins of coastal New
England in their ecological context. In 1996 Garrett wrote Orcas In
Our Midst, depicting the natural history of Puget Sound’s
orca population, their dependence on salmon, and in turn how salmon depend on
healthy watersheds. Volume 2 of Orcas In Our Midst is currently in production.
James E. Gawel
Assistant Professor
University
of Washington, Tacoma
Interdisciplinary
Arts and Sciences
Tacoma, WA 98402
jimgawel@u.washington.edu
Tel: (253) 692-5815
Fax: (253) 692-4639
The Effect of Heavy
Metal Pollution in Aquatic Environments on Metallothionein Production in
Mytilus sp. (A10)
Jim
Gawel is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University
of Washington, Tacoma. His research interests are primarily
concerned with the fate and transport of metal pollutants in the environment
and monitoring of metal stress in biological systems, both plant and
animal. Within this general context, the
scope of his work ranges from agricultural and forested terrestrial systems to
marine systems in urban areas.
Guy Gelfenbaum
US Geological Survey
Menlo
Park CA
ggelfenbaum@usgs.gov
Coastal Habitats In
Puget Sound: A Research Plan in support of Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem
Restoration (F3)
Dr.
Guy Gelfenbaum is an Oceanographer with the US Geological Survey in Menlo
Park, CA. He received his BS from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison
in Geology in 1978, and his MS in 1982 and his PhD in 1998 from the University
of Washington, Seattle
in Oceanography. His research interests
include coastal processes, sediment transport dynamics, and large-scale coastal
change. Dr. Gelfenbaum has studied
coastal processes on the west coast of Florida,
on the Alabama/Mississippi coast and more recently on the Washington
coast and in Alaska. Dr. Gelfenbaum currently leads the USGS’s
Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound Project and is a member of the Nearshore
Science Team with the Puget Sound Restoration Program.
Susan A. Genualdi
Oregon State
University
Dept
of Chemistry
Corvallis
OR
genualds@onid.orst.edu
Atomospheric Transport
of Persistent Organic Pollutants to Cheeka Peak Observatory from 2002-2004
(B4)
Susie
Genualdi is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Oregon
State University.
She received her bachelor’s degree from the University
of Tennessee in Environmental
Science and Chemistry in May of 2004.
Douglas A. George
Oceanographer
United
States Geological Survey
Coastal
and Marine Geology
345
Middlefield Rd, MS 999
Menlo
Park CA 94025
dgeorge@usgs.gov
Tel: 650-329-5376
Fax: 650-329-5190
The Deschutes Estuary
Restoration Feasibility Study: development of a process-based morphological
model (C1)
Douglas
George is an Oceanographer in the Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology
Program at the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. Mr. George has an MSc in oceanography
from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, an MS in journalism from
Columbia University in New York City, NY and worked at the National Academy of
Science in Washington, DC on restoring and protecting the Mississippi Delta.
His research interests include sediment transport, wetland restoration and
heavy metals.
Kirby W. Gilbert
Battelle
Pacific
Northwest Division - Marine Sciences Lab
Sequim, WA
gilbertk@battelle.org
Puget Sound Georgia
Basin Shoreline Management Planning (F10)
Kirby
Gilbert, is a NEPA Program Manager and Public Policy Specialist for Battelle’s
Pacific Northwest Division, Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim,Washington. He has more than 19 years
experience in environmental impact analysis and preparation of
multidisciplinary planning documents for a variety of water and energy
projects. Mr. Gilbert holds a Masters of Science degree in Resource Geography
from Oregon State
University and a Bachelors degree
in Environmental Science from Washington
State University
Linda A. Gilkeson
Head, State of Environment Reporting
BC
Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection
PO
Box 9335
Stn
Prov Govt, Victoria BC V8W
9M1
Victoria B.C. Canada
Linda.Gilkeson@gems3.gov.bc.ca
Tel: 250-387-9410
Fax: 250-387-8894
URL: http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/soerpt
Improving the
Effectiveness of Indicator Reporting: The BC Coast and Marine Environment
Project (C7)
The British Columbia
Coast and Marine Environment Project (P5)
Linda
Gilkeson has been the Head of the State of Environment
Reporting unit in the BC Ministry of Water, Land
& Air Protection since 2002. From 1991 to 2002 she coordinated the
Ministry’s Integrated Pest Management program and has been an author or editor
of over a dozen pest management training manuals and books. She received her
Ph.D. from McGill University
in 1986.
Stuart Glasoe
Technical and Policy Specialist
Puget
Sound Action Team
PO
Box 40900
Olympia, WA 98504-0900
sglasoe@psat.wa.gov
Tel: 360-725-5449
Fax: 360-725-5456
URL: sglasoe@psat.wa.gov
New Approaches to
Shellfish Protection in Puget Sound (A8)
Literature Review and
Analysis of Coastal Urbanization and Microbial Contamination of Shellfish
Growing Areas (P2)
Stuart
Glasoe has served as program specialist and local liaison for the Puget Sound
Action Team since 1991, focusing mainly on shellfish protection, nonpoint
pollution, watershed management and community outreach. He has a Masters in
Regional Planning from Washington State
University and bachelors degrees in
environmental science and earth science from Minot
State University
in North Dakota.
Amy M. Glaub
University of Washington
Friday
Harbor Laboratories
Seattle, WA
glauba@u.washington.edu
Potential impacts of
low dissolved oxygen on eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Hood Canal
(P2)
Amy
Glaub is as a research technician at University
of Washington’s Friday Harbor
Laboratories, working on joint projects with UW and the Nearshore Habitat
Program in Washington State Department of Natural Resources. She has a B.S.
degree in biology from Boston College.
She is currently completing her master’s degree in Natural Science/Science
Education at Huxley College,
Western Washington
University, where she is focusing
on K-12 marine education.
Melissa Gledhill
Environment Canada
Vancouver
B.C. Canada
A Novel Approach to
Sample for River Water Quality in the Fraser Estuary (F1)
Melissa
Gledhill has worked for the Department of Environment as an Intermediate
Ecosystem Technician for two years. She
currently works in the Aquatic Sciences Section of the Environmental
Conservation Branch investigating new and emerging issues related to water
quality in the Region.
Fred A. Goetz
Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental
Resources Section
Seattle, WA
fred.goetz@usace.army.mil
Puget Sound Bull Trout
the Unrecognized Anadromous Salmonid of the Pacific Northwest
(A4)
Formulating a
Restoration Plan for the Puget Sound Nearshore (F3)
Fred
Goetz, Fish Biologist and Science Lead for the Puget Sound
Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project for the Army Corps of Engineers. His research concerns riverine, lake, and
nearshore aquatic communities and
restoration actionsprimarily natural estuarine/coastal marine
ecosystem-, community- and habitat-level interactions; predator-prey
relationships; organization of food webs; landscape ecology and restoration. He holds a B.S. (1985) from Michigan
State University
and M.S. (1994) from the Dept of Fish and Wildlife at Oregon
State University.
Judah D. Goldberg
, WA Department of Ecology
Coastal
and Estuarine Assessment Unit
Olympia, WA
jgol461@ecy.wa.gov
Detection of the
harmful algal species Pseudo-nitzschia and associated particulate and dissolved
domoic acid with concurrent water column quality and nutrient concentrations
obtained from a moored automated water sampler (P2)
I
became involved with research on Pseudo-nitzschia and domoic acid in 1998,
while at UC Santa Cruz. During 2000-2003 I was part of an ECOHAB funded project
studying the extent of domoic acid contamination within the benthos in Monterey
Bay, CA (paper being
submitted). I graduated from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in 2003 (MS
Marine Sciences) and moved to Washington
State to work as a biological
oceanographer with the Department of Ecology.
Todd E. Golumbia
Gulf Islands
National Park Reserve
Parks
Canada Agency
Sidney
B.C. Canada
todd.golumbia@pc.gc.ca
Gulf Islands National
Park Reserve: A Conservation Assessment Review (D10)
Todd
Golumbia, MSc Forest Ecology (University of British Columbia), BSc Biology
(Saskatchewan), Ecologist, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada. After
working on the Haida Gwaii Archipelago (Queen Charlotte Islands)
for 10 years as the ecologist for Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida
Heritage Site. Todd has recently relocated to the Southern Gulf Islands Region
to work in the newly established Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. Prior to
these west coast locations, Todd has worked at several National Parks across
western Canada
as an ecologist and a park warden since 1982.
Stephanie Grand
University of British
Columbia
Resource
Management and Environmental Studies
Vancouver
B.C. Canada
sgrand@interchange.ubc.ca
Effects of forest
harvesting on soil amorphous aluminosilicates (imogolite-type material) and
implications for water quality (F2)
Stephanie
is a PhD. candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and
Sustainability at the University of British
Columbia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Earth
Science from the University of Lyon
1, France.
After completing her undergraduate degree and working for a year in the field
of exploration geology, she decided to further pursue her interest in
environmental issues and started graduate studies in 2002. Her main academic
interests include soil and water resources conservation.
Pete Granger
University of Washington
Washington
Sea Grant Program
Seattle, WA
pgranger@u.washington.edu
Chum Salmon Carcass
Removal in Hood Canal Tribal Commercial Fishery (D6)
Pete
Granger has led the Washington Sea Grant Program Marine Advisory Services since
2001. He is also a seafood industry
specialist with WSGP. Granger has been a
commercial salmon fishermen in Alaska
and on Puget Sound.
He has processed, sold, and marketed salmon and other PNW and Alaska
seafood. He also lobbied for the Washington
salmon farmers for several years.
Correigh M. Greene
NOAA Fisheries
Environmental Conservation
Seattle, WA
correigh.greene@noaa.gov
Tributary junctions as
hotspots for biological productivity and diversity (C1)
Dr.
Correigh Greene has worked as a research biologist for three years at the Northwest
Fisheries Science Center. He is currently studying
biological habitat relationships, movements, and life history variability 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
San Jose State University
MossLanding Marine Labs
MossLanding CA
greene@mlml.calstate.edu
Marine Benthic Habitat
Mapping in the San Juan Islands(P4)
H.
Gary Greene obtained a PhD in Marine Geology from Stanford
University in 1977. He is presently
Professor of Geological Oceanography at MLML and heads up the Center for
Habitat Studies where he is actively mapping marine benthic habitats using
remote sensing geophysical tools. He is also a senior research scientist with
the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute where he studies submarine canyon
geological processes and mass wasting events and their potential to generate
tsunamis.
Eric E. Grossman
US Geological Survey
Coastal
and Marine Geology
Santa
Cruz CA
egrossman@usgs.gov
Characterizing natural
vs. human-related change in Puget Sound deltaic habitats (F4)
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.
Donald Gunderson
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
Seattle, WA
dgun@u.washington.edu
Changes in growth and
recruitment of the Puget Sound rockfish (Sebastes emphaeus) and implications
for its role in the reef community in northern Puget Sound
(E5)
Donald
R. Gunderson is a Professor in the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at
the University of Washington.
His research deals with the population dynamics and management of marine fish.
Kathryn Gwilym, PE
Project Manager
SvR
Design Company
815
Western Avenue, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98104
kathyg@svrdesign.com
Tel: 206-223-0326
Fax: 206-223-0125
URL: www.svrdesign.com
The Integration of
Natural Drainage in an Urban Subdivision (F5)
Kathryn
Gwilym, PE is a civil engineer who has worked on several complex, and
large-scale housing developments. She is
the project manager to the High Point’s
natural drainage system, one of the first natural drainage systems to be
implemented for an urban housing development of this density and scale.
Richard B. Gwozdz
Western Washington
University
Environmental
Science
Bellingham, WA
gwozdzr@cc.wwu.edu
Simulating the effects
of sea-level rise on Zostera marina production in Padilla Bay, WA
(P4)
Richard
Gwozdz received a Bachelors degree in biology from Western Washington University
in 2003. He is currently working towards a Masters degree in Marine and
Estuarine Science at Huxley College
of the Environment, Western Washington
University. He is the recipient of
the 2004 NOAA NERRS Graduate Research Fellowship, the 2004 National Fish and
Wildlife -Budweiser Conservation Scholarship, and the 2004 Anchor Environmental
Scholarship.
Kimberly J. Hageman
Oregon State
University
Environmental
& Molecular Toxicology
Corvallis
Oregon
kim.hageman@orst.edu
Semi-Volatile Organic
Pollutants in Snow from National Parks of the Pacific Northwest
(B4)
Kimberly
Hageman is an environmental chemist interested in the fate of pollutants in the
environment and particularly in their atmospheric transport and deposition. She
is currently involved in the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project
(WACAP) which is sponsored by the United States National Park Service. She is a
post-doctoral research associate at Oregon
State University
in the laboratory of Dr. Staci Simonich. She received a PhD in analytical
chemistry at Oregon State
University in 2003.
Susan B. Haid
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Policy
and Planning
Burnaby
B.C. Canada
susan.haid@gvrd.bc.ca
Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy for the Greater Vancouver Region (B9)
Susan
Haid is a Senior Environmental Planner with the Greater Vancouver Regional
District where she develops regional growth management and environmental land
use policy and plans. She is working on the review of the region’s growth
strategy, the development of a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy, watershed
planning, environmental assessments and participates in multi-agency
environmental initiatives. She has over
12 years experience in environmental planning in various agencies. Susan has a
Master of Science degree in Planning and honours degrees in Biology and
Landscape Architecture. She is a member
of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canadian Society of Landscape
Architects.
Anna Hall
University of British
Columbia
Marine
Mammal Research Unit
Vancouver
B.C. Canada
hall@zoology.ubc.ca
Science and industry:
Bridging the gap to identify harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) seasonal
movements and habitat use. (A2)
The evolution of
commercial whale watching - action plan for 2005 (E10)
I
am currently researching porpoise habitat selection and foraging behaviour for
my PhD thesis (UBC). I am employed as a marine naturalist in the wildlife
viewing industry (1995 - present), and as the Executive Director of the Whale, WAtch Operators Association - North West.
I participate on the Killer Whale Recovery Team (Fisheries and Oceans Canada),
and I volunteer with the Marine Mammal Research Group, the West Coast
Anti-Whaling Society, and the Whaleman Foundation.
Nathalie J. Hamel
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
nhamel@u.washington.edu
Understanding seabird
individual movement patterns to assess vulnerability to bycatch in gillnet
fisheries (A5)
Nathalie
is in her second year of a Ph.D. at UW. Originally from Quebec,
Canada, she has studied
threatened populations of birds in the terrestrial environment before switching
to marine systems
Stuart Hamilton
Head, Hydrology Research and Development
Environment
Canada
401
Burrard Street
Vancouver,
B.C. V6C 3S5
Stuart.hamilton@ec.gc.ca
Tel: (604) 713 9536
Fax: (604) 664 9066
The art of applying environmental
science at a small watershed scale: A case study, Tseycum Creek, British
Columbia. (E6)
Stuart
Hamilton uses hydrological modeling techniques and environmental monitoring
technologies to explore the role of water in ecosystem function. He has developed
applications for hydrological forecasting, prediction of the role of landslides
and forest fires on sediment and nutrient transport and fate, effects of
climate change, and for water temperature prediction.
Dan Hannafious
Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
Belfair, WA
hcwater@hctc.com
HCDOP Citizens
Monitoring Program: integrating a volunteer monitoring effort with the needs of
a partnership-based research program (D6)
Dan
grew up in the Seattle area, attended
college in the Bellingham (WWU) and received his degree in Wildlife Sciences
from Oregon State
University. He lived in Alaska
for 10 years, worked as a biologist and played as a dog musher. He works for
the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, and is currently working with the
research related to the low DO events in Hood
Canal as part of the Hood Canal
Dissolved Oxygen Program.
Brad Hanson
NOAA NWFSC
Seattle, WA
brad.hanson@noaa.gov
A tale of two porpoise
species: Seasonal movements and habitat use of Dall's and harbor porpoise in
the Salish Sea as determined by radio-telemetry (A2)
Dr.
Brad Hanson has been a wildlife biologist with NOAA Fisheries for the past 15
years. He is currently involved a variety of research projects on southern
resident killer whales at the Northwest
Fisheries Science
Center.
F. Joan Hardy
Washington State Department of Health
Office
of Environmental Health Assessments
Olympia, WA
joan.hardy@doh.wa.gov
Evaluation of
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Mercury, and DDT in Rockfish, English sole,
Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon from Puget Sound Washington
(A9)
Joan
Hardy is a toxicologist with the Office of Environmental Health Assessments, Washington State Department of Health.
She has worked for the state since 1989.
She received her BA from Whitman College,
MS and Ph.D. from the University
of Washington, College
of Fisheries. Her projects have included work on aquatic
plant management, toxic cyanobacteria, human health criteria for contaminated
sediments, and contaminants in fish.
Sheila Harrington
Land Trust Alliance
of B.C.
Saltspring
Island, B.C. Canada
sheila@landtrustalliance.bc.ca
Island Community Maps
& Conservation in the Salish Sea Region (E8)
The Islands in the
Salish Sea Community Mapping Project (P6)
Sheila
Harrington has been Executive Director of LTA The Land Trust Alliance of BC
since its founding in 1997. She has worked in the field of environmental
education for 15 years, as a publisher and editor of several books, manuals and
for two years, a national magazine, Positive Vibrations. She is editor of
related publications including: Giving the Land a Voice, Mapping Our Home
Places, and Building Green on the Rural
Gulf Islands.
She also coordinated the Sustainable Salt Spring Roundtable, an international
Green Building Conference, and has spoken and presented at many seminars and
conferences. Her formal training is in both education and fine arts which plays
out in her interest and work in community and local mapping, green building and
the sustainability of both natural and cultural heritage values.
Julio J. Harvey
University of Washington
Department
of Biology
Seattle, WA
jbharvey@u.washington.edu
Development of
molecular diagnostic tools to assess the introduction, establishment and
ecology of invasive species in Puget Sound (C5)
Currently
I am a staff researcher in the Department of Biology at the University
of Washington working to develope
molecular diagnostic tools for monitering the
ecology of invasive species in marine environments. I recently completed the doctoral program in
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University
of California Santa Cruz (2004)
where my research focused on the coevolutionary biology and molecular ecology
of fungal endophytes infecting marine brown algal hosts along the north
American west coast.
Marco Hatch
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
marcoh@u.washington.edu
The Salish Sea:
Historic Conditions (D1)
Marco
Hatch is finishing his Bachelor of Science in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at
the University of Washington.
He is currently working on his senior thesis titled “Identification of
archeological salmon remains utilizing molecular technologies.” Marco will
continue the study of archeological DNA through his graduate studies at Scripps
Institute of Oceanography.
Donna D. Hauser
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
dhauser@u.washington.edu
Representing and
exploring summer distribution patterns of Southern Resident killer whales
(Orcinus orca) (P1)
Donna
Hauser is a Master’s of Science candidate at the University
of Washington, who is interested in
marine mammal spatial ecology and how environmental conditions affect habitat
use. Her current research explores the
spatial and temporal summer distribution patterns of the so-called Southern
Resident killer whales in Washington
and British Columbia inshore Waters. Donna is combining the use of
historical and field-collected location data to spatially model Southern
Resident distribution patterns in a geographical information system (GIS)
context.
Lorenz Hauser
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
lhauser@u.washington.edu
Finding Nemo in Puget
Sound: parental identification of brown rockfish juveniles
(C2)
Lorenz
Hauser is originally from Vienna, Austria,
where he did an MS in fish ecology. After a PhD at the University of Swansea,
UK, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Hull, UK.
In 2002, he joined the faculty of the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at
the University of Washington,
and is currently working on several projects on the population genetics of
marine fishes in the Puget Sound.
Danelle W. Heatwole
The Nature Conservancy of Washington
Seattle, WA
dheatwole@tnc.org
Estuarine habitat
characterization and distribution: potential evidence for landscape-scale dike
impacts (F6)
Danelle
Heatwole received her M.S. in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences from the University
of Washington in 2004. Her graduate
research investigated relationships between salt marsh insect assemblages and
their habitats in pocket estuaries of northern Puget Sound.
She now works as a Field Biologist for The Nature Conservancy of Washington and
is developing a habitat restoration and long-term monitoring program for their
Port Susan Bay Preserve.
Nancy E. Helm
US
EPA, Region 10
Seattle, WA
helm.nancy@epa.gov
Georgia Basin - Puget
Sound International Airshed Strategy (B5)
Nancy
Helm is a staff member of the Office of Air, Waste and Toxics of the US
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, where she serves as air quality
liaison for the State of Washington
and lead staff for the Georgia Basin
- Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy. Nancy
has been with the EPA for 16 years. She has held positions in several
environmental programs, primarily in the areas of policy development and
project management.
William D. Henwood
Parks Canada,
Vancouver B.C. Canada
bill.henwood@pc.gc.ca
A Marine Atlas for the
Proposed National Marine Conservation Area in the Southern Strait of Georgia
(D9)
Mr.
Henwood has been a park planner for over 27 years, the last 20 with Parks
Canada in the field of establishing new national parks and national marine
conservation areas. Mr. Henwood has most
recently been involved in the establishment of the new national park in the Gulf
Islands and is currently the
Project Manager for the study to assess the feasibility of establishing a
national marine conservation area in the southern Strait of Georgia.
Chad
Herring
Scientific Technician
16018
Mill Creek Boulevard, Mail Stop: TB44
Mill
Creek, WA 98012-1296
herricjh@dfw.wa.gov
Tel: 425-775-1311 ext. 124
Distribution and
Abundance of Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Spawn Deposition for Cherry
Point Washington stock, 1973-2004. (A4)
Paul K. Hershberger
Marrowstone Marine Station
US
Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipl
Nordland, WA
phershberger@usgs.gov
Larval Herring Acquire
Resistance after Challenge with Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus
(A7)
Dr.
Paul Hershberger is Station Leader of the Marrowstone Marine Station and a
member of the affiliate faculty at the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University
of Washington. His research interests include understanding
basic ecological disease processes affecting populations of wild marine and
anadromous fishes in the Pacific Northwest.
Russell P. Herwig
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Seattle, WA
herwig@u.washington.edu
Defending Our Shores:
Ballast Water Treatment Technologies (C5)
Russ
Herwig is a Research Associate Professor in the University of Washington (UW) School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
For the past three years, Jeff Cordell and he have led a UW team that is
investigating ballast water. The UW group is sampling the 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 experiments.
Kollin F. Higgins
King County
Department
of Natural Resources and Parks
Seattle, WA
Kollin.higgins@metrokc.gov
Spatial Relationships
between Beneficial and Detrimental Nearshore Habitat Parameters in WRIA 9 and
the City of Seattle (B7)
Kollin
Higgins has worked for King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
for the last 5 years. While at King County
he has participated in a variety of projects, including marine and freshwater
fish surveys, salmon recovery planning and shoreline master planning. He has a
Masters degree in fisheries policy from the UW school
of Marine Affairs and a Bachelors
of Science in Marine Biology from Humboldt
State University
in California.
Larry Hildebrand
Environment Canada-Atlantic Region
Dartmouth
Nova Scotia Canada
larry.hildebrand@ec.gc.ca
The Coastal Zone Canada
Association: Ten Years of Moving the ICOM Markers (C8)
Larry
Hildebrand is the Manager of Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems for
Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, in Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia. Larry has worked for the
Canadian federal government for the past 26 years in a variety of positions
related to integrated coastal and ocean management. He is also Adjunct
Professor of Environmental Studies and Marine Affairs at Dalhousie
University and conducts training
and capacity building work around the world. He is co-founder and Vice
President-Liaison for the Coastal Zone Canada Association.
Sayre Hodgson
Salmon Recovery Research Biologist
Nisqually
Indian Tribe
Natural
Resources
12501
Yelm Hwy, SE
Olympia, WA 98506
shodgson@nwifc.org
Tel: (360) 438-8687
Juvenile Salmon
Baseline Studies in the Nisqually Estuary; 2002-2004 Results
(A3)
Sayre
Hodgson is a Salmon Research Biologist with the Nisqually Indian Tribe. She has
coordinated the tribe’s fish monitoring in the Nisqually Estuary since 2002.
She has a Master’s in Fisheries from the University
of Washington.
Jan L. Holmes
Island County
WSU Beach, WAtchers
Coupeville, WA
janholme@whidbey.net
Island County WSU Beach, WAtcher Intertidal monitoring Program: A model for volunteer based data
collection (P6)
Education:
B.S. Environmental Science from Huxley
College, M.S. Marine and Estuarine
Science from Western Washington
University. Jan helped develop the Beach Watcher
monitoring program and has been a coordinator of the program since it’s
conception. Current work includes teaching marine biology classes and
co-coordinating recurrent training each year to Beach Watcher volunteers, as
well as supervising teams in the field. Her other interests are plankton and
seaweed ecology.
Kirstin K. Holsman
University of Washington
School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
Seattle, WA
kkari@u.washington.edu
Elements of Ecosystem
Based Management: An Estuarine Case Study (P5)
K.
Holsman is a PhD student in the School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences.
Her work to date has focused on estuarine life history aspects of juvenile
Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, and food web and landscape ecology.
Jon M. Honea
University of Washington
College
of Forest Resources
Seatt