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Division:
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CB
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Status:
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Program Manager, Population Biology
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Phone:
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206-860-3275
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Email:
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Programs:
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NWFSC Publications
Curriculum Vita
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Background
Jeff is Program Manager for the Conservation Biology Division's Population Biology Program. The Program encompasses three teams: Diversity, Salmon Harvest, and Salmon Recovery, whose members conduct much of the technical work to support NMFS conservation and recovery planning of anadromous and marine species in the Pacific Northwest under the Endangered Species Act. Jeff is an adviser for the National Research Council's Research Associateship Program, and a mentor for the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics. He is a past president of the American Fisheries Society's Genetics Section and served as an associate editor for the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. Jeff holds courtesy appointments as affiliate associate professor in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska and in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. He received a B.S. in Biology from Oregon State University, an M.S. in Fisheries Science from the University of Alaska, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Oregon.
Current Research
As a biologist that uses evolutionary genetics to address current and emerging problems in natural resource management and conservation biology, Jeff's research into life-history evolution focuses on four primary topics: 1) characterizing the relationship between genetic and phenotypic variation within and among populations in life history; 2) determining the evolutionary consequences of inbreeding within and interbreeding among distinct populations; 3) exploring how life histories respond to selection such as size-selective exploitation, hatchery domestication and climate change; and 4) detecting the genetic architecture of fitness traits. His current research projects include studies in Washington and Alaska to determine the effects of inbreeding and outbreeding in Chinook and coho salmon and steelhead, to characterize domestication selection in hatchery coho salmon, to evaluate the consequences of fisheries- and climate-induced evolution in Pacific salmon, and to quantify the genetic and environmental factors that influence anadromy, life-history plasticity, and viability in steelhead.
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