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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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Research Fishery Biologist
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Phone:
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206-860-3372
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Email:
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send e-mail
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NWFSC Publications
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Background
Rick is a research fishery biologist in the Center's Conservation Biology Division. He joined NOAA Fisheries in 1995. Prior to 1995, Rick was an assistant research professor in the Center for Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Institute of Marine Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University where his research interests included ecology, reproduction and larval development of nearshore and deep-sea marine mollusks; molluscan systematics; and aquaculture of marine organisms. Rick received a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, an M.S. in zoology from the University of Maine-Orono, and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Victoria, BC.
Current Research
Rick is a member of the Center's Genetics and Evolution Program, but collaborates extensively with the Population Biology Program. Rick led the sockeye salmon and gadid marine fish status reviews and co-authored the Pacific herring status review for species petitioned under the US Endangered Species Act. His research in recent years has been directed toward 1) understanding genetic population structure in river-type sockeye salmon in western Washington and Pacific hake in Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, 2) developing diagnostic molecular markers to identify freshwater mussel parasites (glochidia larvae) on juvenile salmonids, and 3) identifying both extant and extinct independent Pacific salmon populations and characterizing hierarchical levels of lost biodiversity among extinct populations and ESUs.
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