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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 Geneticist
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Phone:
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206-860-3265
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Email:
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send e-mail
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Programs:
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NWFSC Publications
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Background
Gary's first pursued his interest in geographic variation of morphometric and genetic characters of fishes while a student at the University of Hawaii (Ph.D., 1980). As an NRC fellow at the Center, he used multivariate morphometrics to describe body shape changes associated with smoltification, and later worked extensively with various genetic data sets for mixed-stock fisheries of chum and chinook salmon, and steelhead.
He has a B.S. from Michigan State University and an M.S. in biological oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology.
Current Research
Gary continues to pursue interests in the relationship of adaptive phenotypic characters and genetic marks, habitat choice and behavior, morphology, and ecology in kokanee, steelhead, and cutthroat trout. He is currently designing a study of character evolution (morphology, behavior, metabolism, and smoltification) and genetic change associated with anadromous populations isolated upstream behind barriers.
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