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 2019, 2014, 2011, 2008, and 2005. The Council appoints ISRP members, while the Council, NOAA Fisheries, and the Columbia River Indian Tribes appoint ISAB members. All qualified members are appointed without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, or military or veteran status.
Joint ISRP and ISAB members
ISRP Co-Chair: Patrick Connolly, Ph.D., Emeritus Lead Research Fish Biologist at the United States Geological Survey’s Columbia River Research Laboratory in Cook, Washington
Patrick's expertise spans multiple topics that are highly relevant to ISAB and ISRP reviews including food web dynamics, non-native predator research and management, dam passage approaches, and fish response to restoration efforts and climate change. His experience with Columbia River Basin ecosystems and institutions has added needed context to ISAB and ISRP reviews. He began service on the ISRP in 2020, and his second term is approved through 2026. He began service on the ISAB in 2023, and his first term runs through 2026. He currently shares ISRP Co-chair duties with Tom Turner. See Dr. Connolly’s CV for more details.
Dana Infante, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
Dana has expertise in river ecology and management, landscape ecology, and environmental assessment. She takes an interdisciplinary approach linking landscape ecology with traditional objectives of aquatic ecology, conservation biology, and fisheries management. She has done extensive work on developing ecological indicators for dam impacts and managing comprehensive databases for the Great Lakes region and other large systems. In 2024, the American Fisheries Society recognized her work with the Excellence in Fisheries Education Award, one of the Society’s most prestigious awards. She has applied her interdisciplinary experience and quantitative approach on the ISAB and ISRP, examining the full spectrum of Fish and Wildlife Program, mitigation, and recovery efforts, and associated performance. She began service on the ISAB in 2019 and ISRP in 2020, and her second terms are approved through 2026. For more details, see Dr. Infante’s Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab website and her MSU bio page.
Yolanda Morbey, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Western University, Ontario, Canada
Yolanda is also an evolutionary movement ecologist. She teaches in the areas of ecology, evolution, and biostatistics. Her experience and expertise have focused on avian and salmon migratory behavior and ecology in the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes ecoregions. This combination of topical and geographic experience has brought a fresh perspective to ISAB and ISRP reviews. She began service on the ISAB in 2022 and is serving her second term, currently approved through 2028. She began service on the ISRP in 2023, and her first term runs through 2026. See Dr. Morbey’s Lab website for more details. Outside of work Yolanda enjoys birdwatching, hiking, cryptic crosswords, and jigsaw puzzles.
Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., France-Merrick Professor in Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration at Horn Point Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Prior to his position at the UMCES, Kenneth was a professor and Associate Dean at Louisiana State University and a research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research on mathematical and computer simulation modeling of fish population and food web dynamics in estuaries, lakes, reservoirs, and oceans has been directly applicable to Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife management. He also has a long history of effectively serving on scientific advisory committees, including multiple committees of the National Academies of Science, the Independent Science Board of the California Delta Science Program, the steering committee for the United States GLOBEC Program, the Science and Technical Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program, and several review committees for the US Army Corps of Engineers. In 2014, the American Fisheries Society gave him the Award of Excellence for lifetime achievement. During his ISAB and ISRP terms, he has led numerous reviews of fish passage and life cycle models and provided constructive guidance on their use. He began service on the ISAB in 2019 and ISRP in 2020, and his second terms are approved through 2026. See his UMCES faculty webpage for more details. Outside of work, he enjoys kayak fishing on the Chesapeake Bay and traveling both for work and pleasure.
Other ISRP members
ISRP Co-Chair: Thomas Turner, Ph.D., Regents' Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Research at the University of New Mexico
Thomas is also the Curator of Fishes at the University’s Museum of Southwestern Biology. He has led scientific review groups working on trout recovery in the American Southwest and for the National Science Foundation on population and community ecology issues. He works at the intersection of science and policy in species conservation, and his research has focused on population genetics and the evolutionary ecology of fishes. He has successfully applied this expertise during his two full ISAB terms (2015-2021) and his current first ISRP term, reviewing artificial production programs for anadromous and resident species, population ecology and genetics monitoring, and predator management projects. He began service on the ISRP in 2021, and his second term is approved through 2028. He currently shares ISRP Co-chair duties with Pat Connolly. See Dr. Turner’s Aquatic Conservation Lab website for more details. He enjoys skiing, hiking, live music, good conversations, and great food.
Other ISAB members
See above: Patrick Connolly, Dana Infante, Yolanda Morbey, Kenneth Rose
James Irvine, Ph.D., Emeritus Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia
James' work has focused on salmon stock assessment and fisheries, covering freshwater and marine environments. In 2021, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission awarded Dr. Irvine for his sustained contributions to the Commission’s mission to conserve and manage salmon resources in the North Pacific Ocean. In 2025, he synthesized observations from two decades of experience with Canada’s Wild Pacific Salmon Policy in the paper, Reflections on Canada’s 2005 Wild Pacific Salmon Policy (WSP) with Suggestions Going Forward. His expertise has been applied broadly across ISAB assignments and has been especially applicable to reviews related to life cycle analyses and ocean survival. He began service on the ISAB in 2022 and is serving his second term, currently approved through 2028. See Dr. Irvine’s CV for more details.
Chair: Desiree Tullos, Ph.D., P.E., Betty and Ron Miner Endowed Professor at Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department
Desiree has expertise in ecohydraulics, river engineering, and habitat restoration. She has broad experience modeling and researching the ecosystem impacts of dam operations and flood risk management in the Pacific Northwest, China, and other areas. Of particular interest in the Pacific Northwest, she conducted interdisciplinary research of Klamath River dam removal, restoration, and decision making processes. She previously served on the ISRP (2015-2021), including as vice-chair, and reviewed the full range of Fish and Wildlife projects, focusing on habitat restoration, floodplain reconnection, and passage projects. In addition to her institutional knowledge of Program implementation, she provides engineering and hydrological expertise to augment the fisheries expertise represented on the ISAB. She began her ISAB service in 2022 and is serving her second term, currently approved through 2028. For more details, see Dr. Tullos’s OSU River Engineering and Restoration program webpage, and her OSU bio page.
Vice-Chair: Michael Young, Ph.D., Emeritus Research Fisheries Biologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, Montana
Michael's focus has been on broad-scale application of genetic tools, including eDNA, to answer ecological questions about native and nonnative aquatic species in western North America. He also has extensive experience working on trout ecology and conservation. His genetic expertise fills an important need on the ISAB, and his fish ecology expertise and Columbia Basin multi-species research experience (e.g., lamprey, sculpin, bull trout) has been widely applicable across ISAB review topics. He began service on the ISAB in 2023, and his first term runs through 2026. See Dr. Young’s CV for more details.
Note: Since October 28, 2025 the appointments process has been underway to fill six ISRP positions and four ISAB positions by early 2026. Several members who recently completed their terms are continuing as ad hoc ISAB members or ISRP Peer Review Groups members until the transition to new members is complete.
Past members
(affiliation at time of appointment)
Rich Alldredge, Ph.D., Professor of statistics at Washington State University (former ISAB and ISRP Chair)
Robert Bilby, Ph.D., Ecologist at Weyerhaeuser Company, an expert in riparian ecology
Peter A. Bisson, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Olympia (Washington) Forestry Sciences Laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station
Richard Carmichael, M.S., Consulting Fisheries Scientist, formerly Program Director Northeast-Central Oregon Fish Research and Monitoring, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (former ISRP Chair)
Courtney Carothers, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Fisheries, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
James 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
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
John Epifanio, Ph.D., retired as Principal Scientist with the Illinois Natural History Survey and as a Research Professor with the University of Illinois; now based in Portland, Oregon
Kurt Fausch, Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University
Kurt Fresh, M.S., formerly Program Manager for the Estuary and Ocean Ecology Program at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
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 (deceased)
Robert Gramling, Ph.D., Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Stanley Gregory, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Fisheries at Oregon State University (former ISAB and ISRP Chair)
Susan Hanna, Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University (past member of the IEAB, ISRP and ISAB)
Linda Hardesty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of range management at Washington State University, an expert in the biological diversity of eastern Washington
David Heller, M.S., Aquatic Habitat Management and Restoration Consultant, formerly Fisheries Program Leader for the Pacific Northwest Region, USDA Forest Service
Charles Henny, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Corvallis, Oregon, an expert in wildlife and environmental toxicology
Wayne Hubert, Ph.D., Fisheries Consultant and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology and Physiology
Nancy Huntly, Ph.D., Executive Director, Ecology Center at Utah State University (former ISAB Chair)
Stuart Hurlbert, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director, Center for Inland Waters at San Diego State University, an expert in limnology and biostatistics
William Jaeger, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Economics at Oregon State University (also served on IEAB)
Cynthia Jones, Ph.D., Eminent Scholar and Professor of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences; Director of the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology; and A.D. and Annye L. Morgan Professor of Sciences at Old Dominion University, Virginia
Josh Korman, Ph.D., President of Ecometric Research and an Adjunct Professor, Institute of Ocean and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
Roland Lamberson, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Director of Environmental Systems Graduate Program at Humboldt State University
Dennis Lettenmaier, Ph.D., Professor Water Resource Engineering and Hydrology, University of Washington
Colin Levings, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Past Section Head Marine Environment and Habitat Science Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
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 (former ISAB and ISRP Chair) - deceased
William Liss, Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries at Oregon State University
Eric J. Loudenslager, Ph.D., Consulting Fisheries Scientist and Adjunct Professor of Fisheries Biology, Humboldt State University, California, an expert in genetics and fish culture (former ISAB and ISRP Chair)
R. Scott Lutz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin
Alec Maule, Ph.D., Consulting Fisheries Scientist, formerly head of the Ecology and Environmental Physiology Section, United States Geological Survey, Columbia River Research Laboratory (former ISAB chair)
Lyman McDonald, Ph.D., Consulting statistician at Western Ecosystems Tech., Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, formerly a professor at the University of Wyoming
Peter Moyle, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis
Phillip Mundy, Ph.D., Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Consultant
Katherine Myers, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington (Retired)
Robert Naiman, Ph.D., Professor of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, an expert in river ecology (former ISAB Chair)
William Pearcy, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Oregon State University
David P. Philipp, Ph.D., Principal Scientist of fisheries conservation at the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois and Board Chair, Fisheries Conservation Foundation
Thomas P. Poe, M.S., Consulting Fisheries Scientist, an expert in behavioral ecology of fishes, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey (former ISAB Chair)
Thomas Quinn, Ph.D., Professor of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Washington (former ISAB Chair)
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
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., Fisheries Scientist for Natural Resources Consultants (former ISAB and ISRP Chair)
Laurel Saito, Ph.D., P.E., Nevada Water Program Director, The Nature Conservancy of Nevada, Reno
Dennis Scarnecchia, Ph.D., Professor of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, an expert in large river fisheries population dynamics, and salmon, trout and char
Daniel Schindler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington
Steve Schroder, Ph.D., Fisheries Consultant and former Fisheries Research Scientist at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (former ISRP chair)
Carl Schwarz, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada
William Smoker, Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
Peter Smouse, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers University, an expert in biometrics and population theory
Jack Stanford, Ph.D., Jessie M. Bierman Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana
Alisa Wade, Ph.D., Research Coordinator for the United States Geological Survey, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Thomas Wainwright, Ph.D., retired Research Fishery Biologist, NOAA Fisheries; now based in Bend, Oregon
Bruce Ward, Fisheries Scientist, Ministry Of Environment, Aquatic Ecosystem Science Section, U.B.C., Vancouver
Richard R. Whitney, Ph.D., Consulting fisheries scientist, Leavenworth, Washington, formerly a professor in the School of Fisheries, University of Washington (deceased)
Richard Williams, Ph.D., Affiliated Research Scientist, Center for Salmonid and Freshwater Species at Risk, University of Idaho, an expert in population and evolutionary genetics, ecology (former ISRP and ISAB chair)
Ellen Wohl, Ph.D., Professor of Geology and University Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Chris Wood, Ph.D., Former Research Scientist at the Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada