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 (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.

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

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)

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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