Scientific review members

These are members of the Independent Scientific Review Panel (ISRP) and Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), as recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 (160k PDF) and 2005 (170k PDF). The Council appoints ISRP members, while the Council, NOAA Fisheries, and the Columbia River Indian Tribes appoint ISAB members.

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ISRP Members

Rich Alldredge, Ph.D., Professor of statistics at Washington State University (also serves on ISAB)

Robert Bilby, Ph.D., Ecologist at Weyerhaeuser Company, an expert in riparian ecology

Peter A. Bisson (photo), Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Olympia (Washington) Forestry Sciences Laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service

John Epifanio, Ph.D., Director and Associate Professional Scientist for the Center for Aquatic Ecology at the Illinois Natural History Survey, an expert in conservation genetics and molecular ecology

Charles Henny (photo), Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Corvallis, Oregon, an expert in wildlife and environmental toxicology

Colin Levings (photo), Ph.D., Research Scientist and Past Section Head Marine Environment and Habitat Science Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (also serves on ISAB)

Eric J. Loudenslager, Ph.D., Hatchery Manager at Humboldt State University, California, an expert in genetics and fish culture

Katherine Myers (photo), Ph.D., Principal Investigator of the High Seas Salmon Research Program at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

Thomas P. Poe, M.S., Consulting Fisheries Scientist, an expert in behavioral ecology of fishes, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey

Bruce Ward, Fisheries Scientist, Ministry Of Environment, Aquatic Ecosystem Science Section, U.B.C., Vancouver

ISAB members

Rich Alldredge, Ph.D., Professor of statistics at Washington State University (also serves on ISRP)

Dr. Jim Congleton, Ph.D., Emeritus Fisheries Professor, University of Idaho, an expert in salmon physiology and the effects of the hydrosystem on fish behavior and survival

Nancy Huntly, Ph.D., Professor of Wildlife Biology at Idaho State University

Roland Lamberson (photo), Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Director of Environmental Systems Graduate Program at Humboldt State University

Colin Levings, Ph.D., Scientist Emeritus and Sessional Researcher, Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (also serves on ISRP)

Robert Naiman, Ph.D., Professor of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, an expert in river ecology

William Pearcy, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Oregon State University

Bruce Rieman, Ph.D., Emeritus Research Scientist and Program Manager with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Boise, Idaho, and also a current member of NOAA’s regional Recovery Implementation Science Team

Greg Ruggerone, Ph.D., (currently an ISAB ad hoc member) Fisheries Scientist for Natural Resources Consultants and an Affiliated Research Scientist with the Alaska Salmon Program at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington

Dennis Scarnecchia, Ph. D., Professor of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, an expert in large river fisheries population dynamics, and salmon, trout and char

Peter Smouse, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers University, an expert in biometrics and population theory

Chris Wood, Ph.D., Head, Conservation Biology Section, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, an expert in genetics and ecology of Pacific salmon and other marine fish

Past Members

Charles C. Coutant, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Ecologist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, past president of the American Fisheries Society, with expertise in fish-habitat relationships

Robert Francis, Ph.D., Professor of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington

Daniel Goodman, Ph.D., an expert in ecological risk assessment at Montana State University in Bozeman

Robert Gramling, Ph.D., Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Susan Hanna, Ph.D., Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at Oregon State University (also an IEAB member)

Linda Hardesty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of range management at Washington State University, an expert in the biological diversity of eastern Washington

Stuart Hurlbert, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director, Center for Inland Waters at San Diego State University, an expert in limnology and biostatistics

Dennis Lettenmaier, Ph.D., Professor Water Resource Engineering and Hydrology, University of Washington

Jim Lichatowich, M.S., Consulting Fisheries and Aquatic Scientist, author of Salmon Without Rivers, formerly Assistant Chief of fisheries, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and a past ISAB and ISRP chair

William Liss, Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries at Oregon State University.

Lyman McDonald, Ph.D., consulting statistician at Western Ecosystems Tech., Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, formerly a professor at the University of Wyoming

Phillip Mundy, Ph.D., Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Consultant

David P. Philipp, Ph.D., an expert in conservation genetics and reproductive ecology at the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois

Brian Riddell, Ph.D., an expert in the biology of Pacific salmon and international fisheries management at the Pacific Biological Station, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia

Daniel Schindler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington

William Smoker, Ph.D., professor of fisheries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau Center for Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

Jack Stanford, Ph.D., Jessie M. Bierman Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana

Richard R. Whitney, Ph.D., consulting fisheries scientist, Leavenworth, Washington, formerly a professor in the School of Fisheries, University of Washington

Richard Williams, Ph.D., ISRP Chair, an expert in population and evolutionary genetics, ecology. Graduate Affiliate Faculty, Aquaculture Research Institute, University of Idaho.

Last updated: April 2009