Seth M. White

CURRICULUM VITAE

Watershed Ecologist

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Affiliate Faculty Dept. Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University

700 NE Multnomah Street, Suite 1200 Portland, OR 97232

Email: whis@critfc.org | Phone: 503.731.1300 Web: https://riverscapescience.wordpress.com

Education

2008 Ph.D. Fisheries & Wildlife. Oregon State University.

2003 M.S. Zoology & Physiology. University of Wyoming.

1999 B.S. Biology. Oregon State University.

Biographical Narrative

Through interdisciplinary research, mentorship, and teaching, my principal goal is to advance knowledge on how river restoration can mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic stressors—including climate change—on river life. I combine field methods—such as hydrological assessments, surveys of fluvial geomorphology, and aquatic bioassessments— with quantitative tools and spatial modeling to understand complex ecological systems. With this increased understanding, I provide natural resource decision makers with the knowledge basis for river basin management. My interests are especially attuned to the needs of indigenous communities—namely the Columbia River basin tribes—because the resources they depend upon for subsistence and cultural values are most vulnerable to climate change.

Positions Held

2009-Present Watershed Ecologist. Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, OR.

2011-Present Affiliate Faculty. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Fish Ecology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic.

2003-2004 Science Writer-Editor. Focused Science Delivery Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.

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2000 Nutrient Cycling Research Assistant. H.J. Andrews Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Station, Oregon State University/USDA Forest Service, Blue River, OR.

1999 Stream Fish Ecology Research Assistant. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

1998-1999 Marine Ecology Research and Laboratory Assistant. Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

1997 Wetland Ecology Research Assistant. Department of Botany, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

1996-1997 Natural Resource Communication Intern. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

Publications

Refereed journal articles

In prep White, S.M., Justice, C., McCullough, D., Blanchard, M., and Sedell, T. Climate change meets the ghosts of land use past: Revisiting historical changes in salmon habitat in the Columbia River Basin. Intended for Ecological Applications.

In prep White, S.M., McHugh, P., Naman, S., Baxter, C., Bellmore, R., Naiman. R., and Danehy, R. What’s in the toolbox? A primer of food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation. Intended for Fisheries.

2018 Kaylor, M.J., A. Argerich, S.M. White, B. VerWey, and I. Arismendi. A cautionary tale for in situ flourometric measurement of stream chlorophyll a: Influences of light and periphyton biomass. Freshwater Science 37(2)

2017 White, S.M., Justice, C., Kelsey, D., McCullough, D.A., and Smith, T. Legacies of stream channel modification revealed using General Land Office surveys, with implications for water temperature and aquatic life. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 5(3):1-18.

2017 Justice, C., White, S.M., McCullough, D., Graves, D., and Blanchard, M. Can stream and riparian restoration offset climate change impacts to salmon populations? Journal of Environmental Management 188:212-227.

2014 White, S.M., Giannico, G.R, and Li, H.W. (Invited review). A ‘behaviorscape’ perspective on stream fish ecology and conservation: Linking fish behavior to riverscapes. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Water 1(4):385-400.

2012 White, S.M., Reichard, M., and Ondračková, M. Hydrologic connectivity affects fish assemblage structure, diversity, and ecological traits in the unregulated Gambia River, West Africa. Biotropica 44(4):521-530.

2010 Jurajda, P. Slavík, O., White, S.M., and Adámek, Z. Young-of-the-year fish assemblages as an alternative to adult fish monitoring for ecological quality evaluation of running waters. Hydrobiologia 644(1):89-101.

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2009 Jurajda, P., Janáč, M., White, S.M., and Ondračková, M. Small – but not easy: evaluation of sampling methods in floodplain lakes including whole-lake sampling. Fisheries Research 96:102-108.

2008 White, S.M. and Rahel, F.J. Complementation of habitats for cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki) in watersheds influenced by beaver, livestock, and drought. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137(3):881-894.

Technical reports

2017 White, S.M., Graves, D., Barton, D., Gephart, L. Conservation planning for climate change impacts to benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Columbia River basin. Prepared for the Columbia Basin Forum.

2017 Justice, C., D.A. McCullough, and S. White. Habitat Characteristics and Fish Use of Cold-water Refuges in the Upper Grande Ronde River. Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Technical Report 17-09, Portland, OR. 59p.

2017 Sullivan, S.P. and White, S.M. Methods supporting the development of food web metrics from benthic macroinvertebrate data. CRITFC Technical Report No. 17-05. Prepared for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Rights Implementation Climate Change Contract AO9AV00480 by Rhithron Associates, Inc., Missoula, MT, and Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, OR.

2016 Kelly, V.J. and White, S.M. A method for characterizing late-season low-flow regime in the Upper Grande Ronde basin. U.S. Geological Survey, Water Science Center Report, Portland, OR.

2016 CHaMP (Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program) (multiple contributing authors). Scientific protocol for salmonid habitat surveys within the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program. Prepared by CHaMP for the Bonneville Power Administration.

2014 White, S.M., Roger, P., and Thompson, S. Traditional ecological knowledge and science. Pp. 18-26 In Spirit of the Salmon: Wy-Kan-Ush-Mi Wa-Kish-Wit. Portland, OR: Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. 217 p.

2012 White, S.M., Justice, C. and McCullough, D. Protocol for snorkel surveys of fish densities. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership, Monitoring Methods Report No. 499. Portland, OR. 16 p.

2005 Deal, R. and White, S.M. (Eds.) Understanding key issues of sustainable wood production in the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-626. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 67 p.

2005 Bradley, G., Kearney, A., and White, S.M. Seeing the forest for the trees: visual resources research in the Capitol State Forest. Chapter 7 in Deal, R. and White, S.M (eds.) 2005. Understanding key issues of sustainable wood production in the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-626. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 67 p.

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2004 White, S.M. Bridging the worlds of fire managers and researchers: lessons and opportunities from the wildland fire workshops. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-599. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 41 p.

Dissertation and thesis

2008 White, S.M. How the animals found their places: pattern detection, experimentation, and epistemology in a high desert stream fish assemblage. PhD Dissertation, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

2003 White, S.M. A watershed perspective on the distribution and habitat requirements of young Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Thomas Fork of the Bear River, Wyoming. MS Thesis, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Public outreach writing

2017 White, S.M., Prelude to Catherine Creek (Essay). In Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time, Eds. D. Oats, A.T. Moore, and J. Elliot. Kelson Books, Portland, Oregon. Also appeared in Letter to America series, Terrain.org: Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place, 2 June.

2017 White, S.M. Using history to help shape the river’s future (public outreach article). Ripples in the Grande Ronde, Grande Ronde Model Watershed Education Outreach Program, Summer 2017.

2016 White, S.M. Nonviolent protest: A lesson for the occupiers at Malheur (Op-Ed). Writers on the Range, High Country News, 18 February.

2007 White, S.M. The phantom barn: collage of landscape, memory, and ghosts (Essay). Oregon Quarterly chapbook.

2002 White, S.M. Ghosts in the meadow: past land use influences current patterns of fish distribution (Essay). Fisheries 27(1): 39.

2001 White, S.M. The whooping crane at Arlene’s café. Laramie Audubon Newsletter 3(4): 4-6.

2001 White, S.M. Small watershed studies: fifty years in the Lookout Creek basin. Cascade Center for Ecosystem Management, Blue River, OR.

1999 White, S.M. Religion and the environment: A Catholic deacon on the edge. E-line (Spring issue), The Corvallis Environmental Center, Corvallis, OR.

1998 White, S.M. Getting our feet wet: marine biology. Science Record (Fall issue), College of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

1997 White, S.M. Four articles in Focus on Forestry, a journal of the College of Forestry, Oregon State University: “Seeing the trail: students practice environmental interpretation on McDonald Forest,” “The worrisome issue of landslides: Marv Pyles and the science behind landslides,” “Uneven-aged management may broaden the choices for forest managers” (with Wells, G., and Roorbach, A.), and “Getting them outside… and them teaching ‘em science.”

1997 White, S.M. Where wild things grow. Corvallis Gazette-Times (Feature newspaper article, July 31), Corvallis, OR.

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1997 White, S.M. Forgotten habitat. E-line (Fall issue), The Corvallis Environmental Center, Corvallis, OR.

Grants and Agreements

2009-present Monitoring recovery trends of Chinook salmon population viability indicators. Columbia Basin Fish Accords and Bonneville Power Administration. ($1M annually; 2009-2016 as co-PI, 2017-present as lead PI)

2015-2017 Climate change threats to salmonid food webs: A tribal vulnerability assessment (Phase I & II). Bureau of Indian Affairs Rights Protection Implementation Climate Change Project. ($100,000)

2012-2014 Monitor and evaluate habitat conditions for anadromous salmonids in the Minam River basin, Oregon—a wilderness river. Cooperative Agreement with Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife. ($180,000)

2013-2014 A method for characterizing late-season low-flow regime in the Upper Grande Ronde River Basin. Cooperative Agreement with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Center. ($50,000)

2008-2009 Fish community dynamics of regulated rivers of the Morava basin, Czech Republic. W.J. Fulbright Commission and Institute for International Education, New York, NY. ($70,000)

Honors and Awards

2017-2018 Wilburforce Fellowship in Conservation Science. The Wilburforce Foundation (Seattle, WA) and COMPASS (Portland, OR).

2008-2009 Fulbright Fellowship to Czech Republic. W.J. Fulbright Commission and Institute for International Education, New York, NY.

2007-2008 Oregon Laurels Fellowship. The Graduate School, Oregon State University. ($10,000)

2007-2008 Thomas G. Scott Grant Scholarship. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. ($2,000)

2007 Washington County Flyfishers Scholarship. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. ($1,000)

2007 Awarded 2nd place in the Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. Eugene, OR. ($200)

2005-2006 Flyfisher’s Club of Oregon Graduate Fellowship. Portland, OR. ($5,000)

2006 Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society PhD Degree Scholarship, Bend, OR. ($1000)

2006 Oregon Council Federation of Fly Fishers Scholarship. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. ($500)

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2005 Neil Armantrout Graduate Fellowship. Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. ($500)

2004 Award for Science Communication. Focused Science Delivery Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR. ($1,000)

2003 Best Student Paper. The Bonneville and the Colorado-Wyoming Chapters joint meeting for the American Fisheries Society, Grand Junction, CO.

2002 National Science Foundation & British Ecological Society Travel Award to the annual Society for Conservation Biology meeting, Canterbury, UK. ($1,000)

2002 C.P. and Evelyn S. Plummer Scholarship. School for Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming. ($1,500)

2002 Paul Crissman Scholarship. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming. ($2,000)

2002 Vern Bressler Fisheries Scholarship. Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming. ($500)

2001 First runner-up, American Fisheries Society National Student Writing Award.

2001 Louis C. “Red” Rockett Memorial Scholarship. Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming. ($500)

1998-1999 Robert Lundeen Scholar of Marine Biology. Department of Zoology, Oregon State University.

1999 Richard Chambers Environmental Research Grant. College of Science, Oregon State University. ($500)

1999 Graduated with honors (cum laude), Bachelor of Science. Oregon State University.

Invited Research Seminars

2016 Historical ecology of the Grande Ronde River with implications for salmon restoration. Upper Grande Ronde/Catherine Creek Atlas. 1st Annual State of the Science Meeting. La Grande, OR.

2015 Unraveling the influence of multiple human pressures on aquatic communities in the Columbia River basin. University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria.

2014 Fish habitat modeling to support life cycle models in the upper Grande Ronde basin. Federal Columbia River Power System Biological Opinion Adaptive Management Implementation Plan meeting, Seattle, WA.

2014 Update on upper Grande Ronde River, Catherine Creek, Minam River Chinook habitat program. Federal Columbia River Power System Biological Opinion Adaptive Management Implementation Plan meeting, Welches, OR.

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2014 Informing recovery options for spring Chinook salmon in the upper Grande Ronde River. State of the Science Symposium, Columbia River Habitat Monitoring Program, Portland, OR.

2014 Updates to Heat Source model and distribution of Chinook spawning in assessment units. Grande Ronde Atlas Restoration Planning Committee, La Grande, OR.

2012 A riverscape perspective of salmon habitat assessments on tribal ceded lands. U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Center Seminar Series, Portland, OR.

2010 Assessing multiple impacts on river health in Czech Republic using the concept of fish zonation. U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Center, Portland, OR.

2009 Riverscape ecology of an eastern Oregon (USA) stream fish assemblage. University of South Bohemia, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Vodňany, Czech Republic.

2009 Are biotic interactions important drivers of fish distributions? Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic.

2007 Redband trout growth and behavior in the South Fork John Day River. Washington County Flyfishers, Beaverton, OR.

2007 Metaphors for evolution and ecology: guiding us towards knowledge or leading us astray? Invited panelist for the book Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology by M. Pigliucci and J. Kaplan. Philosophy Department and the Philosophy Club, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

2006 Juvenile redband steelhead trout in the South Fork John Day River. Flyfishers Club of Oregon, University Club of Oregon, Portland, OR.

2005 History, beaver, and heterogeneity of cutthroat trout in western Wyoming headwater streams. Stream Team Seminar, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

2003 Bridging the gap between fire managers and applied fire researchers (with Barbour, J.) The Joint Fire Science Program/National Fire Plan Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Conference Activity

Symposia chaired

2015 Moving Beyond Water Quality Indices: How Can Macroinvertebrate Data from Fish Habitat Monitoring Programs Inform Food Web Analyses? American Fisheries Society National Meeting, Portland, OR.

2013 Macroinvertebrates and Fish Habitat session, Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Bend, OR.

2012 Landscape Ecology session, European Society for Ecological Restoration, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

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Papers presented as primary author (*indicates invited speaker/panelist)

2017* White, S.M., Justice, C., McCullough, D., Kelsey, D., Sedell, T. Using historical ecology to guide stream habitat restoration. River Restoration in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington Session, Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Bend, OR.

2016 White, S.M. and Sullivan, S.P. Using standard benthic macroinvertebrate sampling for food web metrics in salmon-bearing streams. Society for Freshwater Science (PNW Chapter), Astoria, OR.

2015* White, S.M., Justice, C., McCullough, D., Blanchard, M., Sedell, T., and Benge, G. Testing hypotheses and predicting fish rearing capacity under restoration and land use scenarios using structural equation modeling. American Fisheries Society National Meeting, Portland, OR.

2014 White, S.M., Justice, C., McCullough, D., See, K., and Sedell, T. Guiding restoration for Columbia River salmonids using interconnected, holistic measures of ecosystem process. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (American Society of Limnologists and Society for Freshwater Science), Portland, OR.

2013 White, S.M., A. Puls, and T. Sedell. Exploring the relationships among macroinvertebrates, habitat, and fish productivity for better monitoring outputs. Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Bend, OR.

2012* White, S.M. A holistic approach to salmonid habitat monitoring on tribal ceded lands in the Columbia River basin. Native Lands, Native Ways Symposium, The Wildlife Society, Portland, OR.

2012 White, S.M., C. Justice, and D. McCullough. The landscape context of fish-habitat relationships: implications for restoring wood recruitment processes in U.S. Pacific Northwest rivers. European Society for Ecological Restoration, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

2012 White, S.M., C. Justice, and D. McCullough. Simplifying complex relationships between salmon and their habitat in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Eugene, OR.

2011 White, S.M., C. Justice, D. McCullough, and P. Roger. Storytelling and structural equations modeling for linked watershed processes: common ground for indigenous perspectives and western science. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA.

2010 White, S.M., P. Jurajda, S. Zahrádková, and C. Torgersen. Historical roots of the fish zonation concept and its application as an index of river health in central European rivers. Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2008 White, S.M., H.W. Li, and G.R. Giannico. Towards a “behaviorscape” of the fish assemblage: linking the disciplines of behavioral and landscape ecology in a high desert stream. North American Benthological Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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2008 White S.M., G.R. Giannico, and H.W. Li. Does competition matter? Testing a multi-species habitat selection theory in a pair of high desert stream fishes. Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Portland, OR.

2007 White, S.M., H.W. Li, and G.R. Giannico. Context in the design of manipulative field experiments: redband trout in the South Fork John Day River. Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Eugene OR.

2006 White, S.M., H.W Li, and G.R Giannico. Smile! You’re on candid (fish) camera: does method of observation affect fish behavior? Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Sunriver, OR.

2004* White, S.M. Bridging the gap between wildland fire research and applied fire management: an approach for ecosystems and human communities. The 2nd Annual Research Advances in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Ecology Symposium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

2004 White, S.M. A natural history of an urban watershed: education and outreach in the Johnson Creek watershed. Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Sunriver, OR.

2003* White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. History, Beaver dams, and spatial heterogeneity of young Bonneville cutthroat trout. Spatial Ecology Symposium, The National American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada.

2003 White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. Ontogenetic shifts in habitat use by Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Thomas Fork of the Bear River, Wyoming. The Bonneville and the Colorado-Wyoming Chapters of the American Fisheries Society, Grand Junction, Colorado.

2002 White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. Trends in young Bonneville cutthroat trout production and survival: implications for conservation in a landscape impacted by beaver and cattle. Society for Conservation Biology, Canterbury, U.K.

2002 White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. Reach-scale habitat models in degraded and pristine streams: when do geomorphic and riparian conditions predict young-of-year salmonid distribution? Front Range Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

2002 White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. The role of ecosystem heterogeneity on reach-scale distribution patterns of young-of-year salmonids. The Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Laramie, WY.

2001 White, S.M. and F.J. Rahel. Landscape attributes of young Bonneville cutthroat trout in a western Wyoming headwater stream network. The Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Cheyenne, WY.

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Teaching, Mentorship, and Supervision

Primary teaching and lab instruction

2008-2013 Instructor, Metaphors for Ecology. Cross-listed in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife and the Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University.

2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fish Management (Fall semester). Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming.

2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ichthyology (Spring semester). Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming.

2001 Graduate Teaching Assistant, General Biology for Majors (Spring semester). Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming.

2000 Aquatic Ecology Field Instructor (Spring term). Multnomah Education Service District Outdoor School, Portland, OR.

Supervision provided

2018 Internship Supervisor for Te La Brandstetter, Umatilla tribal member, B.S. Student in Dept. Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. Project: Habitat selection of benthic macroinvertebrates in the upper Grande Ronde River, Oregon.

2017-Present Supervisor for Casey Justice, Fishery Scientist, and Lauren Burns, Fishery Biologist, Fishery Science Department, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

2017-Present Internship Supervisor for Cassidy Hayes, Standing Rock Sioux tribal member, Teaching Rising American Indian Leaders (TRAIL) Intern, Portland State University. Project: Quantifying effects of salmon carcass additions along a temperature and fish community gradient.

2016-Present Graduate Committee Member and Project Supervisor for Matthew Kaylor, Ph.D. Student in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University. Project: Are bottom-up drivers of primary production related to invertebrate and fish abundance across the Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek Basins?

2015-2016 Internship Supervisor for Jacob Billy, Yakama Nation tribal member, Teaching Rising American Indian Leaders (TRAIL) Intern, Heritage University. Project: Field validation of rapid assessment techniques for quantifying salmonid abundance in tributaries of the Columbia River basin.

2013-2015 Graduate Committee Member and Internship Supervisor for Greg Benge, Professional Science Master’s program, Oregon State University. Project: Mapping tributary habitat restoration projects in the upper Grande Ronde River to support landscape analysis.

2010-Present Mentorship of 1-2 interns per summer on week-long stream surveying field trips assessing stream health in the Blue Mountains of Northeast OR. Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

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2013-2014 Faculty Mentor for Tyanna Smith, Grand Ronde Tribal Member, McNair Scholar, Portland State University. Project: Reconstructing historical salmon habitat of three watersheds in the Columbia River basin.

2012-2013 Internship Supervisor for Jazzmine Allen, Saturday Academy Intern, Roosevelt High School. Project: Reconstructing historical riparian vegetation from Government Land Office surveys.

2007-2008 Internship Supervisor for Simona Robinson and Steven Wysinger, Tuskegee University, Alabama. Project: Documenting fish foraging and aggression strategies using underwater video.

2000-Present Shared supervision of 4-5 full-time seasonal positions per year conducting stream habitat surveys, biotic assessments, and laboratory activities in the Cascade Mountains, Blue Mountains, and Wallowa Mountains of Oregon; the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming; and the Moravian region of Czech Republic. Various institutions.

Guest lectures, workshops, and field tours

2018 Guest lecture: Understanding rivers through metaphor analysis. Climate & Water seminar, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.

2017 Guest lecture: Storytelling as common ground between traditional and scientific ecological knowledge. Indigenous Science and the Environment, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2016 Workshop: Documenting historical trends in fish habitat conditions using CHaMP and other stream surveys. Advanced Trainer Workshop, Columbia River Habitat Monitoring Program, Cove, OR.

2015 Workshop: Structural equation modeling of fish-habitat relationships. Advanced Trainer Workshop, Columbia River Habitat Monitoring Program, Cove, OR.

2014 Field tour: Columbia River Gorge exploration. Joint Aquatic Sciences-Society for Freshwater Science Meeting, Portland, OR.

2012 Guest lecture: Perspectives on salmon habitat in the Columbia River basin. Fish Conservation, Portland State University.

2011-2016 Field lecture (annually): Detecting the influence of land use on stream habitat - lessons learned from the Catherine Creek studies. Columbia River Habitat Monitoring Program, Cove, OR.

2011 Workshop: Concepts, meanings, and metaphors of biodiversity. Biodiversity Perspectives Workshop, River Rally conference, Charleston, South Carolina.

2007 Guest lecture: The Paul Harvey part of the story: conservation of multiple age classes of fish in cattle-grazed Wyoming streams. Natural Resources Management, Oregon State University.

2006 Guest lecture: A science mystery - the decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Boring Oregon Middle School, 8th grade science class.

2004 Guest lecture: Science writing - a landscape of stories. Advanced Composition & Writing, Department of English, Oregon State University.

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2004 Guest lecture: A day in the life of a scientist, and a year of salmon. Boring Oregon Middle School, 6th grade science class.

2002 Guest lecture: Stream ecology in Wyoming. Ichthyology, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming.

2002 Guest lecture: The nature of Wyoming. Fern Ridge Elementary School, 4th grade class, Sandy, OR.

Service to Profession

2017 Invited participant to the Northwest Climate Science Center workshop: “Ecological Drought in the Northwest,” Portland, OR.

2016-2017 Member of the Science Advisory Committee for Northwest Climate Science Center’s project: “Probability of Streamflow Permanence (PROPSER) Tool.”

2012-Present Member of the Science Advisory Committee, Restoration Implementation Strategy Workgroup for the upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek basins, Northeast Oregon.

2012-2015 Member of Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership, Macroinvertebrate Planning Group, White Salmon, WA.

2008-Present Reviewer for various management agency proposals including: EPA proposal “Tribal watershed restoration for resilient salmon watersheds;” Joint Fire Sciences Program (technology transfer proposals); various research proposals from tribal entities (Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Yakama Nation, and Burns-Paiute Tribe); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Beaver Restoration Guidebook.

2008-Present Reviewer for articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Ecosystems, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Restoration Ecology, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Hydrobiologia, Folia Zoologica, and North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

2011-Present Field training (annually): Snorkel survey techniques and benthic macroinvertebrate collection for participants from Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

2011-2013 Participation with the Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup, Seattle, WA.

2005-2006 Journal Club Coordinator, Oregon State University Fisheries & Wildlife Graduate Student Association.

2002 President of the Student Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, University of Wyoming.

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Community Involvement and Outreach

2007-Present Board of Directors (current Chair), Freshwaters Illustrated, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of educating diverse public audiences about the life, study, and conservation of freshwater ecosystems.

2016 Aquatic Ecology Outreach, Salmon Camp, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Salmon Camp focuses on providing culturally relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences to foster an interest in natural resources careers and close the academic achievement gap for Native American youth.

2016 Volunteer Aquatic Ecology Instructor, Trinity School of Portland, Camp Collins, OR.

2014-2016 Volunteer Guest Instructor, Portland Girls’ Science Club, Portland, OR.

2014 Participant, Willamette Speaks Storytelling event, Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group & Metro, Portland, OR.

2009 Public lecture: Jak jsem potkal ryby (How I came to know fish) – history, ecology and conservation of rivers in the American West. Moravian Library, Brno, Czech Republic.

2007-2008 Conversation Partner, Crossroads International, Corvallis, OR.

2004 Volunteer Workshop Leader, Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Portland, OR.

2001 Volunteer Workshop Leader, University of Wyoming Outdoor Club (in cooperation with Student Chapter of American Fisheries Society), Laramie, WY.

Media Coverage

2017 Television: “Ash and Sediment from Eagle Creek Fire expected to wash into streams, clog spawning ground,” KATU News, Portland, OR. katu.com/news/local/ash-and-sediment-from-eagle-creek-fire-expected-to-wash-into-streams-clog-spawning-ground

2017 Television: “Forest Service plans fast action in gorge,” KGW News, Portland, OR. www.kgw.com/news/local/forest-service-plans-fast-action-in-gorge/474258867

2017 Radio: “Tribes worry over lower Columbia Gorge Coho runs with forest fires,” Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR. http://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-salmon-columbia-gorge-eagle-creek-fire-tribes/

2017 Podcast: “Would you trust the feds to make decisions about your land?” Terrestrial, National Public Radio (NPR), Seattle, WA. kuow.org/post/would-you-trust-feds-make-decisions-about-your-land-terrestrial

2008 Television: “Fish Cam,” Oregon Field Guide, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR. www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/fish-cam/

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Training and Certifications

2016 Wilderness First Aid (16-hr course), Wilderness Medicine Institute

2008 Pedagogical training, Natural Resources Education Conference. College of Forestry, Oregon State University.

2001 Environmental Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR.

2001 Graphic Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.

Languages

English (Native speaker)

Czech (Beginning conversational)

Professional Affiliations

2017-Present Ecological Society of America

2008-Present Society for Freshwater Science

2008-Present W.J. Fulbright Alumni Association

2001-Present American Fisheries Society