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Division:
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FE
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Status:
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Estuarine & Ocean Ecology Program Manager
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Phone:
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206-860-3313
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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
Ed Casillas has worked for NOAA Fisheries for more than 20 years. He has evaluated the effect of human use of toxic compounds in coastal environments on marine fishes, invertebrates and salmon, and the role of natural climate change on growth and survival of juvenile salmon in the estuarine and coastal marine environments of the Pacific Northwest. Ed's background is in physiological ecology, receiving his B.A. in environmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in fisheries biology from the University of Washington. After conducting a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Ed began his career at the NWFSC in 1981.
Current Research
As Program Manager of the Estuary and Ocean Ecology Program, Ed's responsibilities are to supervise the program's research activities, which fall into three principal areas: defining the role of estuaries for salmon and how they function to benefit completion of the salmon life cycle, defining the role of the Columbia River plume as an important early ocean habitat for juvenile salmon and participating in the Northeast Pacific Global Ocean Ecosystems (GLOBEC) projects. GLOBEC brings together NOAA and academic scientists to assess the relationship between physical and biological processes (including salmon) in the coastal region of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
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